Reply #22: I am an agnostic in this "can science study religion" debate - I do not

[papau]

think it is possible, no one has shown me a path to a possible experiment, but perhaps it can be done.

If it can be done, this was a poor design.

If it can not be done, the design does not matter and calling it a poorly designed study is indeed a bit disingenuous.

At a more basic level, obviously theological claims as to some religious action that can be measured affecting some physical outcome that can also be measured could be put into a great experimental design- and therefore studied by science.

I just do not know of such a theological claim.

My statement calling it "poor design" does not preclude my also feeling, on a pre-empirical or philosophical ground, that this experiment was a stupid idea.

:-)