ATHEISTS ONLY

Just to make things more complicated Dr Mir says we have been looking at the question ‘how did the universe come from nothing?’ all wrong.
According to the extraordinary findings, the question is irrelevant because the universe STILL is nothing

This thread was started as a satire. It's intent is humor. You're about as funny as a crutch.

FBM probably just ran out of memes.

The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism across the World
Jean Decetycorrespondenceemail, Jason M. Cowell, Kang Lee, Randa Mahasneh, Susan Malcolm-Smith, Bilge Selcuk, Xinyue Zhou

Keywords:
Religion;Fantasy;Impossibility;Testimony

Judgments About Fact and Fiction by Children From Religious and Nonreligious Backgrounds
Kathleen H. Corriveau1,*, Eva E. Chen2 andPaul L. Harris3
Article first published online: 3 JUL 2014

Abstract
In two studies, 5- and 6-year-old children were questioned about the status of the protagonist embedded in three different types of stories. In realistic stories that only included ordinary events, all children, irrespective of family background and schooling, claimed that the protagonist was a real person. In religious stories that included ordinarily impossible events brought about by divine intervention, claims about the status of the protagonist varied sharply with exposure to religion. Children who went to church or were enrolled in a parochial school, or both, judged the protagonist in religious stories to be a real person, whereas secular children with no such exposure to religion judged the protagonist in religious stories to be fictional. Children's upbringing was also related to their judgment about the protagonist in fantastical stories that included ordinarily impossible events whether brought about by magic (Study 1) or without reference to magic (Study 2). Secular children were more likely than religious children to judge the protagonist in such fantastical stories to be fictional. The results suggest that exposure to religious ideas has a powerful impact on children's differentiation between reality and fiction, not just for religious stories but also for fantastical stories.

Bering and Parker (2006) told 3- to 9-year olds about Princess Alice, who would help them in a guessing game even though she would remain invisible. Older children were especially likely to treat unexpected events—such as a light suddenly going out—as helpful communications from Princess Alice signaling that their guess was wrong. Thus, in all three studies, when an adult testified that an ordinarily impossible event had taken place, or would take place, children accepted that testimony and acted upon it.

secular and religious children differed sharply in the way that they conceptualized their references to religion. Secular children produced them as a warrant for thinking of the story character as pretend. By contrast, religious children produced them as a warrant for thinking of the story character as real.

So I challenged him, on the spot, to a straight-up dual--parrot on parrot.