Reply #24: Science disagrees with you.

[AtheistCrusader]

Though, not in the way you expected:

"Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found.

And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms, perhaps because of the expectations the prayers created, the researchers suggested."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.html?_r=1

You can pray people to death, if you tell them about it :P