The story of Noah's Ark is false.

1. I don't thin god being real actually needs to affect this debate. You can believe in a god and not the stories of the bible. Simple as that. IF god is real and did flood the entire earth i would deem that an unforgivable genocide, and wouldn't worship said god anyway. That's not to mention all of the other atrocities he would have either committed or done nothing to prevent. But again that's another months worth of typing i as well don't have time to do. 2. The methods for determining age of the earth and even for the age of the universe are very reliable yes. It amazies me that people can believe some there is no evidence for at all but refuse to believe something that does in deed have a vast amount of evidence to back it. The only reason people don't believe these facts are because they conflict with a belief they already hold, which (no offense) is the definition of idiocy. No scientists don't have all the answers but they have FAR more answers than any religion has ever put forward. Have you ever stopped and thought about the fact most of these religions never change what their positions on various topics are? If they do it's because there is so much evidence that goes against what they had thought they eventually change their position because none of the followers thought the same way as them anymore. There's a reason we don't believe in sun gods and rain gods like the native americans. There's a reason we don't believe in Zeus and Thor, and Jupitor and all of the other thousands of gods that man have made up over our lifetime. You are an atheist in respect to every god ever with the exception of one. As Richard Dawkins said "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." Scientists are always challenging what we believe and what we believe to know. Science is always evolving and uncovering more and more and more. So yes Scientists are very reliable. It's literally there job to reliable. They are the people who spend their lives triying to understand things some of us might never be able to. The important thing is that they don't just say "we figured this out so that's how it is". They provide us with evidence and walk us through the hypotheses and try and make it so we can understand, all we have to do is make the effort to do so. And of course something isn't automatically true if it is printed in a book. That is literally the argument against the bible and the other holy books. In fact it has nothing to do with truth. The truth could be painted on a wall in a cave for all we know. My goal as an atheist and "intellectual" as it i supposes explains it best, is to educate people and get rid of ignorance wherever possible. I refuted every claim you made about Noah's Ark and hopefully brought some new information to you. You therefore can now choose to be ignorant of said information, OR you can look into it. Study it. Research it. Try and understand it. That's up to you, i can't make you or anyone else do that. All i can do is bring the information to you and hope you and others utilize it. You said neither side can find significant evidence to appease the other. But that's the thing. You didn't provide any evidence, no one has. It is simply accepted that god did it, and that's that. I brought a ton of information and could grab EVEN more if need be. It is very unfortunate that so many people can see a fact and choose the invisible delusion of their religion over said fact. The Article you posted can be refuted here http://www.talkorigins.org... If your interested. I want to point out that many people believe in a god and do not believe any of the ridiculous stories of the bible. Nor should they. You can believe in god without believing ridiculous or ill informed things as well. I obviously recommend atheism to anyone who hasn't thought about it previously, but i would also suggest looking into Deism as well. There is still a believe in god there so maybe that would be more beneficial to you and your life. I'm glad to here that a 13 year old is on a site like this. Keep at it and if you want to become better at debating i also suggest reddit and any of the religion/atheism/politics sub reedits on there. If you wish to continue in any respect be my guess otherwise i can only wish you well.