Now, I’m not a believer in any supreme deity, but c’mon, was this meant to be clickbait or do you really propose this is scientific falsification?

Well I can easily dispel your own “mythology” here, since your claim centers on the religious claim that “god answers prayers”, which you claim is universal.

How do you know what “god answers prayers” even refers to from a religious view? “Prayer and ritual” is so old that it is far more likely that what prayer even means or what one should or should not expect from doing it could change so much over time.

I’m going to show you a prayer you can say right now that will likely be answered immediately, you can say a prayer to the lemon goddess, and you can imagine taking a bite from the lemon goddess body, and if you feel the tingles in your mouth begin to water as of citrus touched your tongue, your prayers would have been answered.

I have this prayer answered every time I perform the ritual.

Now, did anything about my “prayer being answered” have anything to do with a real lemon goddess? No of course not, the imagery is strong enough to invoke the salivary response, but the imagery was fueled by my imagination and the change in body chemistry is measurable.

There are some religions that still have intact long linage traditions and the notion that ritual or prayer is more of a mind generated event that can have an effect on the state of mind and physiological changes in the body of the person praying. This application and interpretation of prayer makes it more of a natural psychological aid, not all religion is an appeal to interpreting what are really “augmented reality” tools like stories and myths as literal scientific hypothesis on the nature of reality.

And since religion is not a scientific hypotheses on the nature of reality it’s simply not possible that you could falsify it.

I’m just as concerned about religious fundamentalism as anyone else, but I must say I think this sort of application of science where it is used as an ideological blunt force weapon really gives the wrong impression of science to those who have the most misunderstanding of science.

Science should not be an ideological force, we need to build consensus with religious views and they should not be afraid of “losing their religion” if they simply learn about science.

Saying it has disproved “god” is simply not scientific thinking at all, just ideological.