We believe that chants, prayers, or petitions work due to faith, the confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. When there is an intense desire for a certain outcome and the results satisfy that desire we tend to hold chants, prayers, petitions, wishes, and miracles accountable or them actually becoming a reality.
Science explains such coincidences with Littlewood's Law of Miracles. Littlewood suggests that the probability of a miracle occurring is once per month. They occur due to odds, chance, and probability, but there is no real granting of wishes or miracles. There is an unexplainable connection between wishful thinking and probability that makes us believe that the desired results were possible due to miracles rather than them simply taking place due to chance or our "once a month miracle."
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