In America, and so many other nations, prayer is a universally accepted solution to most every problem, and it still is completely taboo to question someone’s request for a prayer.  “Pray for me.”  “Let us pray that they…”  “I pray that they don’t….”  “Let’s say grace…”  These phrases are part of our language, and our culture.  The atheist politely ignores them, for what harm can come from such a quaint custom?  But the faithful do believe that God hears them and answers their prayers. They believe that because they pray the outcome of some event can change in their favor – not always, but there is a chance it will.  They believe God’s hand is in their daily life and in the workings of our world.  It is easy to understand how primitive man could believe that the Gods were controlling everything.  Even the superstition man of the middle-ages needed God to account for the mysteries that science had not yet solved.  But today, no-one with a curiosity and a web browser needs God.  The average person is truly challenged to come up with a science or biology question that isn’t readily answered by a quick search on the Internet.  But yet, well-educated people still believe that everything we know about mankind and the universe is changed at the whim of God.  They are certain God daily directs the events in the lives of billions of people on the planet.  But if God were meddling with nature, would not there be some evidence of it?  Think about how precisely we now measure and monitor our universe.  Global Positioning Satellites can gauge, track, and predict the location of any place or thing on the plant to an accuracy of an inch.  We can precisely predict how chemical reactions work, down to the atomic level.  The global variations in gravity are measured down to ± 0.0015%.  Geneticists have mapped the complete human Genome, all 3 billion base pairs.  Science has identified the specific genes that cause our looks, our health, our race, and our inherited diseases.  With amazing detail, doctors can study an MRI or CAT scan to reveal minute details of the body.  Astronomers measure the length of a year as 365.256363051 days, and can predict the duration of next year to within a 10 millionth of a second.  We understand so much now, so why ignore what we already know?  Never has an MRI shown new tissue appear that wasn’t naturally there. Never has one of the billions of photos taken each day shown nature do anything un-natural.  Never has gravity failed to pull.  There isn’t any natural process that ever acts un-natural, and nothing science has ever explored needs God to explain how it works. 

This is only a short summary of this chapter.  To find out more, please read Why Adam and Eve Created God.