Re: Schizm!

Again, I don't know. However, at your request, I'll engage in some, I pray careful, speculation. To this end, I should get clear about what you are asking. If you don't mind, I have reformulated your questions in a way that makes them better suited for logical analysis. I forgot the names of our characters, so I just refer to the father as John and the daughter as Becky.

1) If it is not the case that John prays, then Becky is missing.

2) If either John prays or John does not pray, then it is not the case that Becky is missing.

Do these more formal recastings retain the meaning of your questions?

(Your rain dancing example is a good and interesting. I want to make a few points about this in relation to Hume's critique of causality. But let's continue as we are, perhaps, bracketing this for another time.)