no one knows whether God exists or not. no one. what we do know
however, is that prayer and meditation works in more than one ways. Check it out. it changes the brain, and so does the love for an adorable animal. true story. right here it looks as though it can make a cactus bloom @ Christmas, but no, that's just 'cause we're in L.A., sending LOVE TO THE WORLD. God knows, it needs it. Stephen Hawking says that the big bang is a true beginning from a black hole, not requiring a God. there is also the bliss of music and dance, the deep joy of creativity, love, and appreciation, the existence of premonitions, telepathy, and other psychic powers, indicating levels of human consciousness and spirit that could direct to the consciousness of the atom, and with that the Divine spark in subatomic particles within everything that exists anywhere in the universe.