Rational Agnostic
Well-Known Member
To demonstrate the ineffectiveness of prayer, I wrote a computer program that prompts the user to pray to various specified deities to maximize the number of ones produced by a generator that generates a random integer between 1 and 2 inclusive that I also coded into the program. I coded a message box to appear that gives room for the user to type the prayer to the specified deity. The program does not finish until the user has finished typing the prayers to all of the deities included in the program. For this program, I included Jesus, Zeus, Buddha, Thor, Kali, and, for the sake of control, the nearest flagpole., I included code to generate a graph of the various deities and how many ones were generated after a prayer to each deity was typed. Here is the graph that resulted from 10,000 iterations of the random generator after each prayer to each deity was made. Clearly, there is no statistically significant difference between the deities, and thus we can conclude that there is no evidence that prayer to any of these deities was effective.