So the “peer reviewed scientific documents” for human origins are anymore credible?
Yes, they are. Good explainations are in agreement with the evidence, and not contradicted by it.
Scientists continually find new fossils that re-affirm and expand our understanding of human evolution. Through the use of multiple sources - including the fossil records and etroviral DNA in the Y chromosome, we can trace the age and origins of humans and come to a progressively better understanding of ourselves and our world. The biblical accounts don't change to account for new evidence - they don't improve. It doesn't account for fossils of ancient humanoids, and it never will. For people living in the middle east thousands of years ago - a giant boat with all the animals that they knew of may sound reasonable. With what we know today, it isn't.
We can do the math - X number of animals living on the Arc for 1 year and 11 days requires Y tons of food, would require Z hours/day of caretakers to feed them all, would produce W tons of waste each day that would need to be removed by what.. 8 people? The saltwater of the oceans combined with the rainwater would turn all water brackish, and only a few species of fish can live in brackish water. All sea life would die - that is easily testible - go buy an aquarium and some fish and try it. Trees and most plants cannot live completely submerged for 1 year and 11 days. As previously mentioned, there are species of plants and animals that live only in sepecific places on the earth - some that are very specific, including lizards and spiders that only exist in a single cave. How did they get there from the arc? How many miles would they had to travel, how many generations would it take? Are there insurmountable obstacles in their trek such as oceans? On.. and on.. and on it goes. All the hard evidence and even simple logic contradicts Noah's Flood. Because it's nonsense.
All that can be offered in it's behalf of the bible is apologetics and accusations that scientists MUST be wrong. Religious people can't tell us how scientists are wrong, or where specificaly the error in their calculations are... they just 'know' they are wrong. Someone recently posted a video of a JW public talk on evolution. You'll notice the speaker didn't discuss facts or fossil evidence - they have no leg to stand on there. The entire talk is spent on appeals to emotion, appeals to tradition, and demonizing science (part of satan's world trying to distract us) - they don't actually discuss the theory at all, and even intentionally mis-represent it (lie).
The bible suggests that we started in a garden with a talking snake. It speaks of a man who made stronger by "magical hair". It has a dozen other stories that if you took a step away, and just look at it unemotionally.. it is not credible.
The bible gets us nothing, "keep believing and your problems will go away". If you really want to understand the world, who we are, and where we came from... science delivers.
- Lime