I'm quite aware of that, thank you.

Sorry. I got off track. You my point, really, was that the Bible, I don't think says that God existed in nothingness. It implies that he created everything we can comprehend, but it doesn't say that there weren't other things we can't comprehend that he could.

how do you purport to demonstrate that the story and circumstances surrounding Jesus' conception is irrefutably a falsehood?

I can't prove it irrefutably. But it seems much more likely that someone lied, or was mistaken. There is only one person who could really know if Mary was a virgin -- Mary herself. I'm not familiar with the ethics of the Jewish community 2000 years ago, but maybe she was raped by a Roman soldier and didn't want anyone to know. Maybe she'd slept with someone other than Jospeh and didn't want anyone to know. There are any number of potential explanations that don't involve virgin births. Also note that there is at least one report of a woman becoming pregnant in the US Civil War due to a bullet passing through a man's testicle and carrying sperm into her uterus/fallopian tubes/whatever. That may well be apocryphal, but it's not totally outrageous.

So remind me again why you argue so vociferously against the possibility of a god, that he has a direct hand in things, etc, etc?

Unlikely things that occur are no longer unlikely. They are a certainty. It is easy to prove that certain people have won the lottery. There is no evidence that anyone has ever been affected by God.

it's commonly accepted knowledge.

That's precisely my point. Just because it's commonly accepted doesn't mean that it's right at all. What I was saying is that if people feed you incorrect information, just because it was taught doesn't mean that it's so.

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Did you question your brother? Did a voice pop into his head and tell him to turn right? I have no explanation for this, assuming it's true. But just because I have no explanation doesn't mean that I have to go making up imaginary people to explain it away.