Reply #42: I don't know how prayer could be studied scientifically

[Nikia]

I know that they've done brain scans and such and find that when practiced prayers pray that they use different parts of their brain and that many people who themselves pray get benefits.
To have other people pray for others and see if it has an effect though is different. There is really no way to measure the quality of the prayer for example. That is important because science cannot answer a question like "Can a person move a big truck by pushin it?" When we don't know how much the truck weighs, how much weight a paticuliar person could push, how much they are actually pushing, the fact that people have much varying abilities, and that sometime during the experiment someone might drive the truck, making it irrelevent whether or not someone is pushing on it.