I’m amused to see that the atheists actually thought this study proved anything:

IS PRAYER just another kind of friendly conversation? Yes, says Uffe Schjødt, who used MRI to scan the brains of 20 devout Christians. “It’s like talking to another human. We found no evidence of anything mystical.”
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Robin Dunbar at the University of Oxford points out that the study proves neither: “This has nothing to do with whether God exists or not, only with subjects’ beliefs about whether God exis

Yeah, we actually believe we are talking to God. Shocking! Did they actually think they would find that when we pray some unused portion of our brain would light up? That there was a God communicator in our brain?