Say A Prayer For Science

March, 2005

God reaches down from the heavens to influence our health, if you believe a Columbia University study published in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine. It concludes that women undergoing in vitro fertilization are twice as likely to get pregnant if strangers pray for them.The study involved Korean women undergoing fertility treatment in Seoul. Christians in North America and Australia prayed over faxed photos of 100 women. Another group of 99 women received no prayers. None of the women knew sh...

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