"Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion." ― Michael Shermer Topic(s): Religion More From Michael Shermer "Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training." "But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper." "But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science." More In Religion "Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice."― Francis Bacon "The world is my country, science is my religion."― Christiaan Huygens "True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion."― Henry Cabot Lodge