God is Dead (Redux)

Question 1 I don't take philosophical arguments to be more powerful than scientific and historic records. Philosophical arguments are arguments that we can come to understand through reason alone- they are the simple deductions we can make about reality. Empirical data is different in that it requires seeking knowledge about the world through observation. These are separate realms for knowledge, a priori and a posteriori, and I categorized them separately in my opening case. One does not supersede the other, and I never made this claim. Question 2 The separate books that make up the Bible need to be understood as the writer had intended. I take the grammatical-historical approach to looking at texts. Looking at the text of Genesis, its easy to see that the intention of the book was documenting historical events. Not only is their the text of Genesis, but numerous other texts and cultural traditions around the world have accounts similar to Genesis- that of the Creation and Fall of Man, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel. Given that so many cultures agree on these accounts, and given the vast geological evidence that a worldwide flood did occur, it would be difficult to not take Genesis as an accurate account. Question 3 I don't know that the God of the Old Testament has committed moral atrocities. I usually find that people who accuse the Old Testament deity of such crimes are doing so with emotional appeal, and judge based merely by the morality of the culture they inhabit. It is unlikely that any rational skeptic can come up with arguments as to how God went against morally objective principles. I find that, the more you study the elements of moral philosophy, the more difficult it becomes to hold on to the position that God is a moral monster. Question 4 The God of the Bible is depicted as one who reigns supreme over all of creation. In the Old Testament, God made a covenant with Abraham, and promised that his ancestors would be the seed that save all of mankind. After Christ's resurrection, the Jewish nation converted the majority of the world towards Christianity. So, this religion doesn't sound absurd, as it is focused on every culture, and as previously stated, most cultures around the world have similar accounts to Genesis, which shows the universality of Christian concepts. Question 5 The more I've studied the books of the Bible, the more I've discovered them to be incredibly historically accurate. If you're finding the opposite to be true, I'd like to see which historical documents prove your case. Also, as for pagan influences, this argument has been debunked numerous times. I would like to see which historical pagan belief influenced any of biblical traditions. Also, two of the Gospels may have been written first-hand, and one of them was written second-hand by a disciple of Peter. And, as already stated, given historical studies to the veracity of the Gospels always shows them to have high integrity. Question 6 Evolution is a not a scientific theory that has any credibility whatsoever. None of the claims it makes matches anything remotely consistent with reality. Rather, the theory was initially pushed by Darwin, who created the conception before empirically verifying it, its been proven wrong time after time, the modern conception of the theory is merely an amalgamation of all the rejected hypothesis. The realm of genetics disproves the impossibility of evolution. Geology shows the impossibility of millions of years between rock layers. The physics of the universe disallow a big bang cosmology, and numerous dating methods have been proven to be inaccurate.