Healing with prayer: what is it and what are its ramifications?Healing, that is, the process of restoring health to an organism, literally to make it whole again. This is a process that has been done for many years, by many different means. Since before time was recorded, people have found new ways to heal each other. A person becomes ill or broken and wants to be healed. This is human nature. Healing can occur in almost every tissue in the body and is a vital part of life. So why is it such a big conflict? Because of the means by which people choose to provide healing. Some may choose to seek medical attention and guidance for every small problem, others, however, find it appropriate to seek medical attention only when absolutely necessary. This is where the conflict lies. In the choices you make about seeking medical care. This conflict is old, but to be specific, this conflict between people of faith and the scientific community, centers on prayer and the use of prayer as a supplement or substitute for medical care. Should prayer be used as the only means of healing? Should people be punished for preventing their children from receiving medical care, resulting in their worsening of conditions? Do parents who do the things mentioned above actually make their children martyrs for the faith? As more research is done on this topic and new facts are discovered, eyes are being opened to things like this, and the conflict is becoming more prevalent and urgent. This is something that doesn't seem like it should matter, but it does, it matters a lot to a whole group of people. For a believing person, prayer is powerful, it is a means of communication between a person of faith and God. The prayer is... in the center of the paper... Bushwick). With statistics like these it would not seem that anyone has any doubt that prayer should be used to supplement healthcare, yet some still choose to deny that it can have a positive effect on health. These detractors of this conflict continue with rebuttals like this to refute and discredit their counterparts who advocate healing through prayer: "Prayers for the sick have had some remarkable effect, it is incredible but that the doctors, who are always on the lookout for these things, they should have observed it and added their influence to that of the priests to obtain them for every sick person. If they refrain from doing so, it is not because their attention has never been awakened to the possible effectiveness of prayer, but, on the contrary, because, anyway hearing it insisted upon since childhood, they fail to perceive its influence (Galton)”