re:any more than I believe that prayer alone can keep someone from dying.
Well, curiously enough, a study done by a medical school discoverd that if you pray for some one (or even something!) they do get better.
the study involved bacteria in culture (in those little dishes of agar agar.) the ones that were prayed for, lived longer, even when subject to adverse conditions.. (to cold, to hot, what ever it was they didn't like)
the old saying is Prayer doesn't change things, Prayer changes people, and people change things. is not quite true. pray changes things.. pray for little dishes of bacteria, and they live longer lives, they are better able to with stand adversity. Imagine what it does for people!