What other factors? Truly empirical, double-blinded experiments could be designed to test the efficacy of prayer to God and prayer to milk jug, even controlling for the placebo effect of a believer's faith in God's power. The "results" of the prayer are material (pertaining to matter) and are thereby within the realm of science to empirically verify.
I'm sure the results would be quite reproducible, and I personally believe the conclusion would as Lasereth proposed.
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