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results were collected was flawed. They said that there was too much bias in the methods of these other

scientists and that further testing would be necessary to find accurate results that didn't contain any bias.

To remove the bias from the tests that they had studied, these scientists developed their own

methodology. One of the flaws in the previous experiments they researched was the lack of "blinding" in the

tests. Blinding is the purposeful lack of information given towards the people involved with the testing. To

prevent this from occurring in their own experiment, they designed each group that was involved to be blind

of the other, preventing a bias of information from occurring, or to prevent the placebo effect from occurring

on the patients. The scientists, in the end, wanted to prove that distant healing through prayer wasn't just an

enabler of our subconscious but possessed the true powers of healing that are seen in the Bible because of

prayer. In their experiment, they selected 219 South Korean women between the ages of twenty-six to twenty-

four with fertility issues to participate. Each of these women received in-vitro fertilization-embryo transfer

treatment in Seoul, South Korea. This group of 219 women was then randomly divided into two different

groups. One group would be prayed for while the other was not. Neither group was aware of which group they

were assigned to, and they received identical treatments. The doctors in charge of the patients also didn't know

which group was receiving prayers and which wasn't. Another interesting twist to remove any more possible

biases were removed was to make the prayer groups for these patients all over the world. The prayer groups

themselves were based out of the United States, Canada, and Australia, so they were entirely removed from

the personal aspect being with the patients. This also proves that the patients won’t feel any of the

neurochemical releases that require physical human contact. The investigators and statisticians involved with

this experiment also went in blindly to the experiment. They didn’t know which data set was the prayer group

and which was the control until after they had consulted all the data and made the statistics to represent this

experiment. Overall, the results of this experiment were that the women who were prayed for were almost two

times as likely to become pregnant than those who were not prayed for. The pregnancy rate for the women

who received prayers was fifty percent while the women who did not receive prayers had a pregnancy rate of

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