Templeton spent millions funding scientific research at Harvard Medical School and elsewhere on whether prayer works. He excitedly listed for me some of the many questions he hoped to answer: “Do the people who are prayed for get well quicker? Does the prayer work only if the person who is sick does the praying, or can it be done by somebody else? If it’s done by somebody else, is it important that the person praying put his hands on the person prayed for? Do you pray for the cancer to disappear, or do you pray that God’s will be done?”
