On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 11:00 AM Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 05-Jun-2019, at'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> > If you don't do experiments to test your sacred text, then there is >> nothing left but literalism. If you do experiments and test your sacred >> text you find it's bull shit. > > > > * > Can you please quote an ayat of The Quran and suggest an experiment as > an example of what you mean? * In 1872 Francis Galton (Charles Darwin's cousin) wrote a paper presenting statistical evidence on the ineffectiveness of Prayer: Statistical Inquiries into the Efficacy of Prayer <http://galton.org/essays/1870-1879/galton-1872-fortnightly-review-efficacy-prayer.html> Galton pointed out that for every denomination at every church service in Britton it was customary to pray for the sovereign: "Grant him/her in health long to live", for centuries millions of people begged God to grant their king a long life. And yet when Galton performed a statistical analysis he found that on average British sovereigns lived to be 64.04 but aristocrats who were not sovereigns and thus received no prayers nevertheless lived to be 67.31, doctors lawyers and the clergy lived even longer. Even officers in the army and navy lived longer as did artists. The longest lived of all were the landed gentry who lived to be 70.22. John K Clark > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv25Pz0PnjSFasA7BOyPOS5NH9N1kV18vC4Py35VTq-dww%40mail.gmail.com.
