Absurd

I was working out today, and as I left the gym I happened to glance at a TV. On the screen was a major media channel with the following headline , "How Religion Played a Role in the U.S. Airways Crash". I had to stay and watch.

Of course, the news guy was talking about how many of the people were praying on that flight as it was going down, and how they soon after survived the crash. He thought it was no coincidence. He thought their prayer somehow caused their survival. He thought: they prayed, therefore they survived. Absurd.

You have to bring more than that. They also all wore pants and survived, they also all presumably brushed their teeth that morning and survived. Why not attribute their survival to those things? What about the people on the flight who didn't pray? How did they then survive?

There are simply too many loopholes and contradictions in the belief that these people survived because they prayed.

The reason they survived, the one and only reason, is because of the incredible skill, cool headedness, and impecabble training of the pilot. He should be getting every ounce of credit. He is the reason these people survived, not because some of them happened to be praying at the time.