if someone gets better due to their "belief" that some supernatural being helped them along the way, meaning it was in fact their positive attitude that produced such positive results, this is the placebo effect.
You dont know because it hasnt been explained by science so any claim that science makes is as valid as any claim made by non scientists in this instance.
claims such as these cannot be proved
And that is the very point I have been making all along, if you cannot falsify a belief it has no more validity than any other belief, evolution cannot be falsified.
The only way to evaluate competing beliefs is to resort to either probability or a measurement of results which use different yardsticks making the task that little bit harder if not impossible.
Once one has dropped logic, claiming that your system is better or superior to another is bogus.
What results can you produce that I cannot?
All sorts of results that cannot be measured by science. Today I am 7.8346 happy just doesnt work.
Of course so called empirical, logical thinkers will gladly use rubbish like IQ tests to make decisions, I dont see anyone belittling their belief system.
I have been saying this for a few days now, you need to separate logic from belief if you claim there is a logical basis for saying there is no God.