Zeus, Jupiter, Baal, Wotan, Odin, Amon Ra, Amaterasu, Flying Spaghetti Monster, you name it. We had incredibly a lot of (main) God we could name of. If I list all the Gods ever identified (made?) by human, the list could be incredibly long, Which one is the real God? If we assume there is only one God - which most of human population believe - the chances of us worshiping the right God is less than 1% (or even lower than 0.1%). So, I question you, are you sure you choose the right God? Since I'm more familiar with Abrahamic religion, especially the one with the unicorn, I'll start my point primarily from there.
Most of us who come from christian school probably had known that the bible cite that the world is created in "6 days". Literalist will seriously take it as 6 days, yes 6 days of our time. The more rationale thinker will take it as a prosaic way of describing the flow of event. What is the flaw in this? Not only bird comes first before reptiles, but also several others like light without sun or stars (from where?), the earth is born before the sun (when logically the sun should be older), man as an image of God (how arrogant and sexist, does God even look like ugly fat preachers? Does God even has penis?).
From the perspective of modern science, we had no real answer on how the universe is born, but we had a hint on the process of the birth of the universe. Just look at the giant burning mass of gas, doesn't it seems to be older than the small puny planet we lived in? Unless you can prove the world that the big bang is true, the creation of the first day has a higher chance to be accurate (explosion does not always produce light). The order of creation of living being does not make sense at all.It is plain weird that birds come first before reptiles and they do not mention insects and other small land creatures. Logically bird come after reptiles as birds has much more complex internal structure compared to reptiles. Archeologist had discovered fossils of feathered (the feather is gone, but there is distinct traces of feathers on the fossil slab) birdlike dinosaur which was hypothesed to explain the missing link. But it should be noted that the fossil is much younger than the famous T-Rex and it is the oldest bird fossil ever found.
The power of prayer is highly questionable. Some churches reject the idea of miraculous power of prayer. It is really does not make sense. Several experiment had been done to prove the power of prayer. All of it failed. The first person to test the power of prayer was Francis Galton. He points out that every Sunday churches throughout Britain prayed publicly for the health of entire royal family. Shouldn't they therefore unusually fit, compared with the rest of us, who are prayed only by our nearest and dearest? Galton looked into it and found no statistical difference. Galton done an experiment where he prayed over randomised plot of land to see if the plants would grow any faster (they didn't). Russell Stannard, one of Britain most religious scientist done another experiment in an effort to prove the power of prayer. Patient from 3 hospitals are divided to three group, one that receive no prayer and do not know about it (group I) and two that receive prayer where one of the group unknown about it (Group II) and the other knows about it (Group III). The result shows no big statistical difference between Group I and II, but there is a difference when Group II and III compared. Group III perform worse compared with the rest.
Another thing that I'd like to point out is do God really meddle with human affairs (which many of us believe he is)? If God really does that, why God abandoned people who are trapped in famine? Why not even a young child is spared in the middle of conflicts and or famine? If God really meddle with human affairs, why he God do not stop criminals before he did the crime? If God is all knowing, why he make that stupid tree, knowing that Adam and Eve will fall to it?
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