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...Reich says.Hybridization, he adds, “might be fundamental to the creative process of evolution.”UNANSWERED PRAYERSA seminal 1988 article in the Southern Medical Journal found that heart patients performed better when Christian groups outside the hospital prayed for their well-being.But HMS researchers Jeffrey A. Dusek and Herbert Benson were unwilling to take those findings on faith.In a study published in the Apr. 4 issue of the American Heart Journal, Dusek and Benson found that patients who had undergone Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting surgery did not recover faster when they were prayed for by strangers.In...
...speculated. The study cost $2.4 million. It was funded by the John Templeton Foundation, which seeks to study the intersection between religion and science. Although previous studies had been conducted on the effects of prayer, limitations such as small sample sizes affected their accuracies, according to HMS researcher Jeffrey Dusek. About 43 percent of American adults have prayed for their own health, and 25 percent have had others pray for them, according to a 2004 survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Terri Cisse, a graduate student at the Harvard Divinity School, questioned the validity of the study...