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If that's the case, how could all the world's human population have descended from that one man and his brothers who survived The Flood, and yet nobody believed in the God who just a few hundred years earlier had drowned everyone and supernaturally loaded up an ark with all animal life on the planet?

Is it in any way possible that that scenario makes any sense?

Thanks for your ideas on this pressing topic.

(And here's a bonus, if you're interested in a little closer examination of how short the Bible wants us to believe mankind's memory is-- http://creation.com/meeting-the-ancestors Adam was supposedly alive at the time of Noah's father, but everyone had stopped believing in God by that time except for this one little family--even though THE FIRST MAN THAT EVERYONE HAD DESCENDED FROM WAS STILL ALIVE.

If Christians can't see that this stuff is MYTH, then they're just refusing to employ their intellect on this subject.)

A few times a week (when I'm active here), some Christian is making an erroneous assumption about whether or not I've read the Bible.

And just this morning, someone made an erroneous assumption about whether I'd ever read any C. S. Lewis. ("so you haven't read any C.S. Lewis have you")

Just because I no longer agree with many of C. S. Lewis's positions, why would that mean I've never read his work?

Is it because many Christians on Answers refuse to read anything that they don't agree with?

I've even read Kent Hovind's doctoral dissertation--AFTER I became an atheist. I read stuff I don't agree with all the time. I like to be informed.

Are these bad assumptions on the part of *some* (not all, by any means) Christians evidence that conservative Christians in general expect non-Christians to be unaware of their religion's teachings, even though atheists are generally more informed about religion in general than Christians are?

Why do you agree or disagree with that statement?

If you think Theology is a better explanation for the historical success of Christianity (regarding its spread, and the economic power of Christian nations, and its status as the world's largest religion), then how do you explain the rise of Islam and the predictions that it will soon eclipse Christianity as the world's largest religion?

I'm curious specifically with regard to aspiring authors here in B&A, but anyone else should feel free to chime in about how authors have impacted their lives.