Yes, less hunger, less over population, and less more of us who depends on the other half to survive.

If it make some feel better, practitioners recommend prayer, an activity of dubious efficacy fulfilling a psychological need granted by some invisible deity that 'caused' the need for the litany in the first place. Outcomes occur/happen in spite of.

Jumping to conclusions can lead to skipping over the facts. Just what does "detained" entail.

There is no logic, since prayer is usually asking some deity for something, or to alleviate something, that was responsible for the condition in the first place. Why would a compassionate deity impose such conditions and then require homage to it to obtain relief from what it caused to occur in the first place. No logic and not one thread of divine intervention exist to prove that some prayer "fixed" anything.

NO, since all that is written about Jesus, or written that is quoted as what he said is by word of mouth that was passed down sixty years or more years and penned some fifteen or sixteen hundred years. Word of mouth, hearsay, is fundamentally unreliable and flawed, usually contrived and embellished over time.

The most important scientific fact that is also overlooked is that when the human brain remembers a past event, it is actually remembering the last time that it remembered it, not the actual event itself. Therefore, when someone says "as far as I can remember, they are making an actual true statement, for one can only remember about anything that they can recall that they remembered. And time takes its toll, so we add, subtract, invent, fill in the blanks as the remembered story or event passes from one generation to another.

The whole concept of an Adam and Eve is moot.. gee the writers just as the Greeks were steeped in metaphor. Making a point and then using the point to prove the point is rampant in scripture.

Some gifted men penned the scriptures over time and produced carefully crafted propaganda to enable the misinformed and uninformed to easily see things that don't exist, especially if they have been convinced that they do. just as people can't see things that really exist, especially if they have convinced themselves that they don't.

Not half as much time as so called organized pick and choosers spend trying to prove 'God's" existence.

Agree that SH was a fun, and valuable avenue to express , entertain, and expand one's enlightenment of various factions and individuals value systems.