This argument is a new one on me.
If you can't read it, click on it to see a larger original. I can try to summarize it, though. The middle finger is the longest finger on the human hand, and da Vinci drew it in his famous figure of Vitruvian Man, which illustrates ideal proportions…therefore, the Big Bang didn't happen.
I think that if you do a lot of drugs, that will make sense.
I like Jerry Coyne's explanation better.
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