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What's that old saying... "There's no Atheists in a Foxhole." Or a car crash, or a school shooting, or a tsunami, or whatever. When your life is directly threatened, and death is imminent, you'll probably pray. That's not scientific and you're right its probably not rational, but it is very human.

In my opinion though, we live in a beautiful and complicated universe that just begs further investigation and understanding. Every new discovery is another inkling of God's intent. Every new challenge is another test. But that is very much a choice and a belief. Just as flat-out rejecting the possibility would also be a belief.
There are plenty of atheists in foxholes.

You are however right that people grown up with, but refused, religion at times pray in extreme situations. Logic dictates it's cause they see no other way out, and desperately hope for something, no matter how far fetched it is.

I have been in situations where I truly feared for my life, praying to some God was the last thing I thought of.

But to try and use the fact that people do extreme or crazy things in extreme or crazy situations - as some "proof" that there is a God?

Rubbish.