This actually speaks to a more dynamic theological question, about what proportion of religious kids would be willing to believe in modern miracles, or which would have more difficulty believing in their faith if modern-day mythic figures were wandering around?

So children aren't allowed to be children anymore...?

At that age I believe I could be Spiderman. lol!

I feel like you've missed the entire point.

Here we go once more:

The article's point is that kids' ability to determine the likelihood of a story being able to occur is skewed by being taught stories from the Bible which would seem far-fetched to most people. In other words, kids are unable to determine the probability of an event actually being able to occur because they believe that similar events have ocurred in the past.

The situation here is entirely different, because adults have the ability to weigh the probability, and STILL believe in it. In other words, they believe in spite of the improbability. They realize how far-fetched it sounds, and still believe in it. Kids, meanwhile, believe in it without recognizing how far-fetched it sounds. That is the difference.

Think of it like this: there are plenty of adults out there that believe in God despite not having done so as a child (and, to be fair, the inverse is true as well). IF this finding had any link towards adults, i.e. adults only believed in religion because their ability to determine the normal from the far-fetched was obscured, then we would not expect many children who are raised secular to become religious. But that isn't the case, only 46% of Americans who were unaffiliated with religion as children remain so as adults. Granted, we're discussing regions much bigger than just America here, but the point is still the same regardless; lots of people still believe in what seems far-fetched regardless of whether they were supposedly indoctrinated as kids.

My point is simply that there is no link between kids's ability to distinguish between far-fetched and realistic and adults'. Kids cannot distinguish, and so believe both. Adults can distinguish, and believe in spite of the difficulty. That's the difference, and why I believe this study is pointless towards drawing conclusions about adulthood.

because then you have an even less likly occurance where you have Chaos from everything being pulled into order and staying maintained. It would be like if you took all the parts of a watch, shook the bag and you then came out with a working watch that was running on with the correct time.

In a sense, there are modern day mythic figures walking the globe. Of course they are only mythical to the minority of the population that believes in their myth.

See Kim Il-Sung > Kim Jong-Il > Kim Jong-Un. The DPRK literally created a religious cult of belief/faith that prove the "divinity" of that lineage down to a divine birth, etc. 

See various cults who follow/worship their respective leaders as divine figures. 

And yes, these are all extremely localized instances, but they are perceived as being very real to their respective followers. But to say any given belief or faith being deemed correct simply on the basis of having a majority percentage of a population is something that most can agree is completely ridiculous (ie. the one true god or gods change depending on which have the most believers).

Or maybe they do.  ;)

While our current situation indeed does seem unlikely, probability gets messy when you're dealing with an infinite amount of time. As far as we know the universe may have had several far less likely shapes than its current form, with even more complex lifeforms.

Still, even as an atheist I view god as a possibility. After all, our universe might as well be part of a massively complex being's brain cell network of some sort, and there's no way we would know. But with that said I think the existence of elves is more likely than that god being one of our current known gods.

Guys stop it! This article is stupid, considering that while children are gullible, they always ask their parents or siblings if the things they learned was right. And NO ONE is born a Christian, that's a choice they make themselves.

To be fair, the original study didn't make this link. It talks specifically about children's development and ability to differentiate between reality and fiction rather than adulthood. It's not just religious stories either, but also stories featuring fantastical elements such as magic.

Basically, religious kids are more gullible than non-religious.

Okay?  Well, now I'm offended because you seem to think that everyone who doesn't belive in religion is in fact, atheist.  Which, I don't and I'm not.  But, I guess limited views and outlook is your strong suit.