The Book of Genesis is literal and accurate

By definition you must argue that it is correct in all details. I' m arguing that it is not. It may be correct in some aspects but it is not accurate.Many aspects of the book of genesis contradicts facts of today. By summing the age all men from Adam to Jesus we get around 4000 years,and we know this isn't right. By using multiple dating methods we can confirm it is more than that. Carbon dating confirms that the earth is billions of years old,but even if it was wrong we can use other methods to show is older than that. The oldest non-clonal tree alive is 9.550 years old[1] and the oldest clonal tree system alive is around 80000 years old. We can see stars that are millions of light years away,what wouldn't be possible if we were only thousands of years old. Potassium-Argon dating also confirms that the earth is over 6000 years old. Not only the age but a lot of other things aren't consistent with what we know. According to the book of genesis,everyone came from only 2 people. Lack of variation in the gene pool would cause genetic disorders,and they wouldn't be able to populate the entire earth. The Norte Chico civilization is dated to be from 3200 B.C[3],this means that in only 800 years Adam would populate get to the Americas and populate them. The book of genesis also says that humans lived hundreds of years,like Adam,that according to the bible lived 930 years(what means that Adam,according to the bible,was still alive when his family populated the Americas).The oldest age recorded is only 122[4],and even if he did live that much he wouldn't be able to have sons and daughters anymore like the bible says becausehe would be incredibly old and Eve would be too,not being able to have babies anymore. The book of genesis also says that there was a giant worldwide flood that covered the earth for 40 days and rested in mount Ararat. Mount Ararat is over 5000m tall and the earth is has 510.1 million km². That means that according to the bible,in only 40 days it would rain enough to cover a volume of 2550.5 km³ in 40 days. It would need to rain around 63.7 km³ of water per day. Where did all that water come from and where did it go after the flood? It also says that an 8 people were able to carry 2 of all animals of the earth to populate it and to make them all fit into the Ark. There are 950,000 species of insects[5],how Noah found them all and put them in the Ark and how he convinced the the 4740 species of frog[6] not to eat them?There are 2 species of elephant,meaning there would be 4 elephants in the ark. On average an elephant eats 200-250kg of food a day and produces 50kg of dung[7].This means Noah would need to have 8000-10000kg of food for the elephants and clean 2000kg of dung. There are about 250 species of carnivores[8].How would Noah put all these animals in the Ark without any problem and how would he make sure none of them would kill any of the herbivores? Also,how would certain animals survive out of their habitat?How would Noah carry penguins and polar bears to the Ark through deserts?And after the flood we would have the same inbreeding problem as before,and how would all these animals get back to their habitat,and how would herbivores survive without plants to eat? There are also other problems,like how the water life wouldn't be able to live. Many fishes are not able to live in salt water and turbulence and the sediment would cause a lot of problems,with with that many water the water pressure would increase,making it impossible to live for a lot of fishes. I will end my argument here,i will address the tower of Babel in the next one.[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org... [2]:http://www.nps.gov... [3]:http://en.wikipedia.org...[4]:http://en.wikipedia.org... [5]:http://www.factmonster.com... [6]:http://www.defenders.org...[7]:http://www.elephantdungpaper.com... [8]:http://animals.about.com...