So, since you consider much of your ancestors’ books, ie., the Hebrew Bible, as fiction and myth, how do you view the origin of the Passover? Do you understand the significance of the *controlled* event?
The objective verifiable evidence concerning the history covered by the flood does not exist. Based on the history of the text evolved from Babylonian and sumerian ancient texts it is based on oral stories handed down about a catastrophic flood of the Tigris Euphrates River Valley.
The only 'controlled events' known are objectively verified 'Natural events such as the documented catastrophic flood of the Tigris Euphrates River valley by Geologic evidence that corresponds to the timing of being some time before the earliest recorded record when these valley were settled. The other catastrophic floods of the world are caused by known documented causes at different times such as Tropical storms. catastrophic local river floods, tsunamis, glacial lake collapses,
Like all religions the 'observances like the Passover are based traditional beliefs and not necessarily historically documented. The supernatural events in the Book of Exodus are not historically documented outside the Exodus of the Bible. There is no archaeological evidence for the events of the Book of Exodus.
(There on raditonal beliefs and not necessarily e’s that word again!)
You don’t believe your God can be the source of miracles, altering the laws of physics!
And no local floods resulted in the preserved megafaunal remains enveloped by the Permafrost…. In some cases, deep within it.
There is no objective evidence for the miraculous events recorded in all the ancient scriptures of the world. Yes over hundreds of thousands of years or more large mammals lived and died in the arctic buried in layers of peat and permafrost over time. This is still happening today. In the Arctic climate they were preserved. If it was a tropical climate very few bones would have survived unless they were quickly buried by sediment along rivers.