Some misguided folks think that the Brain is the central part of who they are as if that's what runs everything. Nope, that's just the computer, the physical hardware. That there computer doesn't do nothing you didn't tell it to do. And you are the non physical part that the bible calls the soul.
Or perhaps we are not at all misguided. Perhaps it is that your body doesn't do anything the brain didn't tell it to. By saying that it is the soul that drives everything and that flees the body after death, you run into the problem that you have information that, per your definition of soul, exists without a carrier or matrix to support and sustain its organization.
The world around us has a certain logical orientation. Evolution can be seen as a logical progression of life, from oceanic or tidal-pool amoebae to strutting, jabbering, selfish Mankind. If you look at a biologist's Tree of Life, one that includes genetic information, you can see how we evolved genetically over the eons. You can see the biochemistry that makes us what we are. Those processes didn't occur overnight. They didn't occur within a span of 6400 years. They didn't occur within 100 centuries.
One very big problem is orientation of progression. People say Earth was made for us. Suppose, just for a moment, that Earth wasn't made for us. Suppose we evolved to fit the world we had. If you study astronomy, you can see the growth, progression, and death of stars including the violence of the nova or supernova. You can see evidence of the extreme formative event sometimes (inappropriately) called the Big Bang. You can see evidence of just how vicious the universe can be on planets that would kill an unprotected human in a matter of seconds. Even so, you can still find those who insist that Earth was made for us. The problem is, of course, that so much of the universe is hostile to life, and we have this one tiny speck in one insignificant corner of an incomprehensibly huge volume of space - but it was made for us. As Carl Sagan said in
Contact, "it's a really big waste of space."
People talk about lack of fossils - but stop and think. MOST of the animals that would have left fossils got eaten, chewed down to the bone, with the bones then scavenged by burrowing insects, and all of them got crapped out of the predators in the food chain - where they would be totally unrecognizable. So why again do you think we should have all of the fossils?
People talk of the miracles in the Bible. But the stories in the Bible are self-serving. I assure you as an amateur writer of fantasy fiction that if I ever offer a prophecy in any of MY stories, the prophecy will come true - in the book. Outside the book? No guarantees. But to tell stories to children and NOT give them a "fulfilled prophecy" doesn't work for story-telling, because it would discredit the prophet - and the story-teller.
The story of Moses and the plagues of Egypt suffers from two major flaws. First, the total lack of evidence that Hebrew slaves ever WERE in Egypt, and second, the fact that you can explain every one of the plagues as a direct or indirect side-effect of a volcanic eruption in an area rich in iron ore.
The story of the Great Flood suffers from a couple of flaws as well. The Ark, if made out of wood, doesn't float. That person who built a life-sized replica of the Ark (Ark Encounter in Kentucky, USA) took 1000 craftsmen with modern power tools to construct something that Noah had to build with 8 people. Studies have shown that a wooden Ark would not succeed because the wood could not endure the pressures caused by floating - particularly during a rainstorm - where the flexible nature of the hull would splinter. The USA actually built a wooden boat much shorter than the Ark but found that flexing in oceanic waves damaged the hull. (See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_(schooner) for details of the history of this ill-fated ship.)
Another flaw in the flood is the volume of water to reach the tops of the mountains. When the floods receded, where did the water go? Then again, while the floods were in place, why didn't all life in Australia, North America, and South America drown? Yet a mere 6000 years later the explorers found continents teeming with life of all sizes and varieties.
I do not fault people for believing in the Bible, but with my doubts and my recognition of such facts, I think you can see that I will not be joining you in your beliefs.
EDITED to fix a word here and there.
