Serious Problems with Atheism

[Mister Agenda]

There is much evidence of God for the open minded, for example using our logic to see that DNA could Never Code itself to Code itself to Replicate, it's an impossibly vicious circle. And experimentally proving prayer is like experimentally proving a son or daughter loves its parents. It's a relationship, and Prayer is a relationship, and if we pray to God just for a joke or to test Him, then He sees He is mocked, that doesn't bode well for a close relationship, with God, or with your spouse or child.

By 'the open-minded' you seem to mean 'those who want to believe'.

DNA is not a code. It is somewhat analogous to a code, it is somewhat analogous to a factory, it is somewhat analogous to a blueprint, but it is not actually any of these things. For instance, in a real code, the components are symbolic and arbitrary, you can use different symbols to mean the same thing by just declaring them to mean the same thing. We can stop saying 'bowling balls' is the code for 'get me some soda' and make it 'Bohemian Rhapsody' instead from now on. Try substituting some other chemical for thymine in DNA and watch the code analogy's shortcomings be demonstrated dramatically. And you might want to research the work in abiogenesis before you so blithely declare what is and isn't 'impossibly vicious'. Hint: abiogenesis doesn't require DNA to begin, there are multiple plausible hypotheses on the beginning of life, one is RNA-based life that was replaced with DNA/RNA/ribosome based life like us.

Have a lot of people pray for something, and a lot of people not pray for something, and a lot of people pray to a different god for something, and observe and compare the results. Easy. If you're not claiming that prayer actually accomplishes anything that can be measured, there's a good reason for that. Someone who really thought God will influence events because of prayer would totally expect detectable results. And the experiment can be done without any of the participants knowing, it's called a 'natural experiment'. There are groups of people all over praying, not praying, and praying to different gods. All we have to do is watch. And if God is going to all the trouble of making sure that our experiments always show that it doesn't matter who or what you pray to, the results are the same, how can we be held accountable for not believing in a deity that puts so much effort into being undetectable? What can be said by a follower of Jehovah in favor of the reality of Jehovah that can't be said by a follower of Vishnu for the reality of Vishnu? If you think there are no Hindus who liken their prayer and relationship to Vishnu to communing with their father, you need to meet more Hindus.