No it's not. Maybe God just lets the chips fall were they may. Why would God be at our beck and call?[
Unanswered prayer is not proof that there is no God.
Um, yeah, it kind of is, really.
Because you religionists will get out there and claim that God totally wanted Tebow to win a football game, but he can't cure cancers or plagues or famines.
So, your testimony is that unknowable, unfathomable gawds (which religionists slather with various human attributes), maybe don't listen to or respond to prayers. So why pray at all? At least to me, pleading for "stuff" seems like hassling with the gawds- praying for some reward in exchange for a specific behavior, in other words: influence peddling. As to the efficacy of prayer, let’s see the preponderance of evidence, and let's apply critical thinking to it and see if it withstands scrutiny. As a matter of course, everything that religionists delineate in their appeals to gawds we must hold supernaturalism against by way of standard.
The issues that religionists create for themselves are resolved when you take the gawds out of the equation. No issues at all -- not a single paradox. We have free will, we write our own destiny as we move through lineartime, we are responsible for the kind of world we live in, the "plan" is within our hands and is imperfect because we are imperfect, and thus changes-- exactly as it is playing out. The concerns about prayer and bargaining with the gawds are satisfied once you abdicate the notion that there's a "guiding intelligence" from a supernatural realm involved with our existence.