Original post by Plantagenet CrownSuch as?
No they don't, as you have provided no evidence for this. To prove a prayer has been answered you must show there is no other way it could have happened. Prayers that are supposedly answered are probably just things that would have happened anyway, even if the person hadn't prayed. If you're claiming that the prayer was answered by a god then the onus is on you to prove it, something you have not done.
You have provided no evidence for prayers being answered. In fact, your claim that this happens is self-refuting. You say all these millions of people say their prayers are answered and yet they all believe in different gods, which proves that their prayers aren't truly answered, otherwise you're admitting that all of these gods are real!
You would need to actually provide a case of this happening that has been scientifically verified, not just a random anecdotal account.
Incorrect, I have never said that if miracles happen God exists. I have said that that is one of the so-called evidences that many people give when they try to prove that their particular version of God is real. If miracles did happen then they could just as easily be the work of powerful spirits, demons, angels, even advanced aliens.
Miracles haven't happened and you haven't provided evidence of any happening.
Nonsense, this is confirmation bias and doesn't prove that prayers are answered. Once again, you would have to prove that there was no other way save divine intervention that this could have happened. And as we know for a fact that you don't need to pray to get into a school (people get into schools all the time without praying) this blows your entire argument out of the water.
Well exactly, unless there is hard evidence to prove otherwise, no one is going to consider this rigorous proof in any reasonable sense of the word. And this is precisely why anecdotal evidence is extremely weak, because anyone can say virtually anything concerning their inner experience and expect others to accept it as true.
You appear to be confusing even yourself now. You've spent a couple of pages babbling on about how faith and belief doesn't have tangible evidence and now you're asserting that miracles do happen and that prayers have been answered. Make your mind up!