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Comment on Wow! Stunningly Simple but True by Steve Miller

Steve Miller — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:43:28 +0000

“Wow” is too weak a word, but it was all I had.

Comment on Wow! Stunningly Simple but True by nakedpastor

nakedpastor — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:22:29 +0000

thanks so much steve for the mention and the link. i rarely get a “wow”!

Comment on Point Five » Murtha Demands: Please Bring Our Troops Home Where We Can Spit On Them by libertas01

libertas01 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:25:04 +0000

Thanks for the link. We can only hope that this message, being echoed my more and more people across the net, will begin seeping through in the mainstream media. Those people who want to see America lose (Democrats and the mainstream media) need to realize the catastrophic consequences of surrender to the extremists.

Comment on Fitness for the Geek by Have I Lost My Mind? « Steve Miller’s Blog

Have I Lost My Mind? « Steve Miller’s Blog — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:39:30 +0000

[...] I Lost My Mind? As I mentioned earlier , I signed up for the Lifetime Fitness Indoor Triathlon. I really started training for the Swimming [...]

Comment on 2006 Cycling Miles by Steve Miller

Steve Miller — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:44:38 +0000

The funny thing is that the Garmin records an elevation change for my trainer rides I minor flaw that I can live with.

Comment on 2006 Cycling Miles by Robert Herriman

Robert Herriman — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:56:01 +0000

That’s cool Steve. I keep thinking I should have one of those Garmins… It would be interesting to have the elevation data for my log.

Robert

Comment on A Little Girl Needs Your Prayers by Steve O

Steve O — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 02:28:19 +0000

You would think that God would allow himself to become a lab rat.

It’s almost like God doesn’t feel the need to prove his own existance!

Not that it matters, since this is a stupid idea for an experiment, but there were people also secretly praying for the control group.

Comment on CNN.com – Country radio disses Dixie Chicks – May 22, 2006 by Steve O

Steve O — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 02:21:18 +0000

Yeah, but look at all the shows they’ve been on now. You’re going to have clowns in New York who have never seen a cow (not on a plate) buying Dixie Chicks CD’s just to support :”The Cause.”

Note: A minor edit was made by the moderator to remove inappropriate language.

Comment on A Little Girl Needs Your Prayers by Steve Miller

Steve Miller — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:27:21 +0000

I just found another person who needs to be prayed for.

Comment on A Little Girl Needs Your Prayers by TC Andrews

TC Andrews — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:02:43 +0000

Study fails to show healing power of prayer

Knock yourselves out theists, Pray till the cows come home!

(CHICAGO (Reuters) – A study of more than 1,800 patients who underwent heart bypass surgery has failed to show that prayers specially organized for their recovery had any impact, researchers said on Thursday.

In fact, the study found some of the patients who knew they were being prayed for did worse than others who were only told they might be prayed for — though those who did the study said they could not explain why.

The patients in the study at six U.S. hospitals included 604 who were actually prayed for after being told they might or might not be; another 597 patients who were not prayed for after being told they might or might not be; and a group of 601 who were prayed for and told they would be the subject of such prayer.

The praying was done by members of three Christian groups in monasteries and elsewhere — two Catholic and one Protestant — who were given written prayers and the first name and initial of the last name of the prayer subjects. The prayers started on the eve of or day of surgery and lasted for two weeks.

Among the first group — who were prayed for but only told they might be — 52 percent had post-surgical complications compared to 51 percent in the second group, the ones who were not prayed for though told they might be. In the third group, who knew they were being prayed for, 59 percent had complications.

After 30 days, however, the death rates and incidence of major complications was about the same across all three groups, said the study published in the American Heart Journal.

COMPLICATIONS AFTER SURGERY

“Intercessory prayer itself had no effect on whether complications occurred (and) patients who were certain that intercessors would pray for them had a higher rate of complications than patients who were uncertain but did receive intercessory prayer,” the study said.

There is “no clear explanation” for the latter finding, it added.

The study — called the largest of its kind — was designed only to try to measure the impact of intercessory prayer on heart surgery patients, an intervention that some earlier reports had showed seemed to be beneficial.

“Our study was never intended to address the existence of God or the presence or absence of intelligent design in the universe” or to compare the efficacy of one prayer form over another, said the Rev. Dean Marek, director of chaplain services at the Mayo Clinic, one of the authors.