"Newprayer.com makes a[...] claim - that it can send prayers via a radio transmitter to God's last known location, a star cluster called M13 believed to be one of the oldest in the universe...

... Crandall Stone, 50, a Cambridge engineer and freelance consultant, set up the site last winter after a night of sipping brandy and philosophizing with friends in Vermont. The conversation turned to Big Bang theories of creation, and someone suggested that if everything was in one place at the time of the explosion, then God must have been there, too.

''It's the one place where we could be sure He was,'' Stone said. ''Then
we thought that if we could find that location and had a radio transmitter, we could send a message to God.''

After consulting with NASA scientists, the friends settled on M13 as the
likely location. They chipped in about $20,000, and built a radio-wave-transmitting Web site...

... Now, Stone says, they transmit about 50,000 prayers a week from seekers around the globe. Most supplicants pray for someone else - to help an ill relative or a troubled friend, for instance, or to end war."

Bon, qu'un illuminé soit persuadé que Dieu se trouvait au point supposé (et issu d'un faisceau d'hypothèses scientifiques) du Big Bang, je peux le comprendre à défaut de l'accepter. Mais, que son site attire 50 kiloprières/semaine, ça, ça me fait dire qu'on est mal barré.

Heureusement, tout le monde n'a pas perdu les pédales: "One theologian, Charles Henderson, called the claim ''preposterous.'' ''It's scientific mumbo jumbo,'' said Henderson, executive director of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life in New York."

Jean-François

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