Quote Originally Posted by Brenus View Post
“In short, the fact that there is a Sumerian flood story does not falsify the belief that the Bible is an inspired text.” So your point is the inspired by God text has mistaken the names of the protagonists and number of Gods involved in it. So God made mistakes as forgetting under which names and number he/she did it and to whom… Interesting theories! She/he could have a sense of humour as well, doubtfully, but possible.
Huh? No. Who says the Sumerian account had the details right or didn't deviate from what actually happened over time?

And it looks like you didn't read my paragraph about how the flood account wasn't directly inspired by God, as in God wasn't the one telling the story, either.

Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
However, these datings do not seem to make sense to me with the historical narrative - because as I said why would they be milling around like apes for hundreds of thousands of years and then all suddenly, independent develop agriculture and civilization at pretty much the same time, despite living in completely different environments, in completely different conditions?
I don't know enough to answer your questions but I want to point out that living as a hunter gatherer does not equate to milling around like apes for hundreds of thousands of years.

Hunter Gatherers have culture and raise families just like "Civilized Man" does. They are/were Homo Sapiens after all.

Before the advent of agriculture, humanity spread across the globe, adapted to new climates and invented new technologies. It's not like nothing was going on before people started farming.