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Every point of view (or set of beliefs) has a load of assumptions attached to it. Some of those assumptions are right, some are wrong...some might even be somewhere in between. It's no bad thing to examine and investigate assumptions and reassess one's PoV. If you are confident in your assumptions then you should be able to debate with someone with different assumptions, and one or both can change their minds or retain the same PoV. It's not a bad thing to air assumptions. And to test out one's critical thinking ability and interpretation of those assumptions - heck, our critical thinking ability was pulverised enough in TWI. You can probably pick up a load of Bible commentaries that will come up with yet other PoVs, explanations about why this did or did not occur - the flood, and historical inaccuracies and anomalies, for example. Some of those appear to be more "wish list" than "what happened.". I welcome Raf's "actual errors in Genesis" commentary. He might be right. He might be wrong. He's stated his assumptions. No need to shoot the messenger, if the message is wrong. Maybe the message was wrongly recorded by someone else before it got to this particular messenger (Raf). "Maybe" lotsa things (shrugs). But to think about what might underlie the Biblical record and the truths or errors therein, is no bad thing. (And nobody shoot me either, please. I'm just saying - get back on track, let Raf have his say, and consider what he says on its own merit)