(en) Bowen The Sathya Sai Baba Community in Bradford: Its origins and development, religious beliefs and practicesBowen, David The Sathya Sai Baba Community in Bradford: Its origins and development, religious beliefs and practices. Leeds: University Press. (1988), based on his dissertation of 1985
page 256-257 "The nub of the crucial problem for those who apply themselves to theology lies in the fact that the gods, by definition, have not been subject themselves to testing under controlled conditions. [...]To be subject to laboratorial testing is to be accessible, to be manipulable, to be no more than an extension, if not of man himself then of the pnysical [sic] world of which he is the steward. It would be to abdicate the from the concept of deity as that on which all else is contingent. [...]"
page 257 "Sceptics might argue that the onus of proof must rest on the believers, since it is their claim that the observed laws of science are being transcended. The believers, however, will counter that there are factors involved which by definition, are not amenable to such proving."
