But I don't see any other view other than mine that actually explains the physical events reported in the Scripture. What I want is a view that explains ALL the facts not just the ones I want to explain or the ones that are easy to explain. I don't think that a Mesopotamian flood which dumps Noah into the Indian Ocean, which does not flood a town 7 miles away, which depends on lands lacking the minerals described in Genesis 2, can be said to be the event reported in the Scripture. You would think that the true explanation of the event would explain some of those issues. At least my view explains the event in a manner consistent with the science of our day.
Christians often say that art is the sign of spiritual humanity.
No chimpanzee makes statues of the naked female form. This sounds decidedly human. If art represents spirituality then spirituality has been on our planet for at least 330,000 years. Ochre has no apparent practical or technological use until the development of iron metallurgy sometime in the second millennium before Christ when it becomes a principal ore for iron smelting. Nonetheless, many of the Paleolithic period ochre specimens show evidence of having been worked or utilized in some fashion.