[DracIV]

To follow my example of Noah's Arc: we know there was no worldwide flood. There would have been evidence worldwide (duh) in the dirt layers. There is not. There isn't even enough water on our entire planet to even get close to a worldwide flood. You'd need literally solid water pouring in from every single direction at a huge speed to flood the Earth like that. No one could survive it, even if it was possible. We also know that nearly every society has a flood story of some sort that follows that same path. Archaeologists have been able to trace it back to a Sumerian flood story that was totally possible. It involved a mayor of a city who built a large raft boat to clear up his debts by making a major goods transportation, but before it launched a freak storm occured in the dry season that caused a major flood and washed his whole family on the raft down into the Red Sea. They later arrived at an island where they headed back on a major journey of hundreds of miles to home. However, the debtors all needed money after the flood because of damages and he had lost all he had, so he was forced to leave or face death. They went back to the island (we can know which one it is, but I forgot) and set up a kingdom that became a major trading port and was immensely rich. They lived in a tropical paradise trading haven for the last of their years. Since the freak storm was a once in 800 years kind of thing, it was most definately noteworthy and since he was a king of a very rich kingdom his tale in particular was recorded. The story was passed on through the different societies through communication and later recorded by the Jewish priests they *think* as a moral story about what happens when you piss off God. The physical evidence and written story has been found for all this, and later stories even referenced it by name for many centuries before the original was forgotten. Beat that.