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Three Myths That Won’t Die: Creation, the Flood, and the ‘Evidence for Jesus’

A Hitchens-style demolition of pseudohistory and pious wish-thinking.

1. “The Creation story, The Flood story & The Sabbath are recorded throughout the world in almost all ancient cultures.”

Claim: The Bible must be true because many cultures have similar stories.

Reality: Similar myths don’t prove a shared event — they prove shared human psychology.

“If every tribe has a flood story, it’s because every tribe lived near a river.” — Hitchens

Humans across the world have always tried to explain natural disasters and the mystery of existence. Floods, creation, and sacred rest days appear everywhere — from Mesopotamia’s Atrahasis Epic to China’s Nuwa legend, to the Aztec flood myths. These stories reflect common experience, not a single divine broadcast.

Caption: Shared experiences ≠ shared events.

2. “It appears that the physical evidence matches what was recorded in the Bible.”

Claim: Science supports the Genesis account.

Reality: The physical evidence does the opposite — loudly and repeatedly.

There is no sign of a global flood:

• No single sedimentary layer spanning continents.

• No universal extinction pattern.

• Coral reefs, ice cores, and tree rings all show continuous growth far older than 4,000 years.

The world’s oldest coral reef? Over 400,000 years old.

The Greenland ice cores? Layered year by year back 800,000 years.

That alone sinks Noah’s boat without a drop of irony.

Caption: Reality is thicker than scripture.

And the Genesis creation story?

The evidence shows a 13.8-billion-year-old universe, 4.5-billion-year-old Earth, and a biological history stretching across billions of years of evolution.

Even the atoms in our bodies — carbon, oxygen, iron — were forged in ancient stars. In other words, we are literally made of stardust.

That’s not just more poetic than Genesis — it’s true.

“Religion invented man in its image. Science discovered that man was made of the stars.” — Paraphrasing Hitchens

Caption: You are older than Genesis.

3. “There are fewer records of many ancient emperors and famous leaders than of Jesus by a factor of 100.”

Claim: Jesus is better documented than emperors, so Christianity must be credible.

Reality: This is a sleight of hand — confusing myth-making with historical evidence.

Let’s be clear: there probably was a first-century Jewish preacher named Yeshua.

But that doesn’t mean he was divine, resurrected, or walked on water.

The “records” of Jesus are not contemporary documents — they’re anonymous gospel accounts written decades later, copied from one another, and riddled with contradictions. There are zero Roman or Jewish records from Jesus’s lifetime mentioning his miracles, trial, or resurrection.

Meanwhile, emperors like Augustus and Tiberius left coins, inscriptions, decrees, and architecture. That’s evidence. A gospel written forty years later is literature.

Caption: Faith ≠ evidence.

The Takeaway

Each of these claims collapses under scrutiny because they all rely on the same impulse — to start with a conclusion and work backward.

It’s the habit of belief rather than inquiry.

“That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens

Ancient stories are beautiful windows into the human mind. But mistaking them for geology, cosmology, or biography is like mistaking a campfire tale for a weather report.

Science and history have moved on — only dogma remains stuck in the mud, shouting at the stars.

Caption: One is mythology. The other is reality — and infinitely more awe-inspiring.