The secular explanations I've seen for NDE's make a lot more sense to me than conjuring up a magical being. The only thing NDE's prove is that the mind can operate erratically when it is on the edge.

Who was it that went to heaven and returned to tell us all about it? Where is the scientific documentation? Don't cite the one or two characters in the Bible who have "done" so. You'd first have to prove that the Bible is authoritative, and I think you would find that more troublesome that trying to prove God in the first place.

How do you know that prayers are answered? That "A" follows "B" doesn't prove that "B" caused "A". How do you rule out chance? Remarkable coincidences occur every day in parts of the world! How do you rule out a selection process that ignores the failures? Were you there when the prayers were offered or is it just what you read about? Was the prayer vague or very specific. All kinds of results can be shoehorned into vague prayers or vague predictions made by mediums. Objective studies give us good reason for believing that prayers do no more than random chance.

Who said that abiogenesis happened by pure chance? Perhaps the laws of nature had something to do with it! You also seem to be confusing abiogenesis (origin of life) with biological evolution (begins with life at the cellular level). Evolution works whether the first cell was made by God or by nature! That we evolved from ape ancestors would not be changed one bit.

Looking past what can be verified is pure guesswork and proves nothing.

I would beg to distinguish between "imagine" and "think", the latter of which the OP broadbrushes as one in the same in the intent of his post -

"You won't let your mind think beyond that. I sincerely wish you would."

I won't speak for anyone else. I think, and then I imagine. They are two separate things. One can, without invoking logic, obliviously ascribe any brain activity as thinking, but for the matter of causation the mind will weigh probability and provide the best case cause while all others considered will fall away to imagination. Fact and fantasy is where I'm going.

Facts are rules each of us assemble and live by to order ourselves and our priorities in the routine of our lives. These have a logic to them. The sun rises, sets and we acknowledge these two events as facts. These are thoughts and we ponder their reality without question.

Fantasies are the work of imagination and are assembled from bits of non-factual information the mind is consciously directed to assemble to create a scenario that is not fact-based.

Man lives in reality and escapes into fantasy.

Your statement, therefore, actually tells us you sincerely wish we'd escape into (your) fantasy.