For the record, the fossil record is not the atheist interpretation, it is THE interpretation. There is little evidence to refute how fossils are interpreted save the religious who assert a young earth, and God remains silent on the topic.
Perhaps you could answer me something else though, why put so much emphasis on a series of books written as hearsay? The bible itself covers several centuries, which could not have been written by one person, it would have to be a collection of people. Much of it reeks of after the fact writing, like the gospels which were written some 60+ years after the supposed death of Jesus. which means none of the writers actually experienced or saw any of what they wrote about. And since they are both human and writers, what makes us so certain that they did not embellish their stories. We are quite aware of kings and lords doing so in their own histories.
Perhaps you could answer me something else though, why put so much emphasis on a series of books written as hearsay? The bible itself covers several centuries, which could not have been written by one person, it would have to be a collection of people. Much of it reeks of after the fact writing, like the gospels which were written some 60+ years after the supposed death of Jesus. which means none of the writers actually experienced or saw any of what they wrote about. And since they are both human and writers, what makes us so certain that they did not embellish their stories. We are quite aware of kings and lords doing so in their own histories.
