I have chosen to answer both of your posts here, rather than see-saw back and forth between the two.  Since the Great Flood of the Bible took place in the mid-24th century BC, the pre-Bronze Age cultures you cite are irrelevant for purposes of this discussion.

I am constrained at this point to mention that the theory of evolution is just that--a theory, which has never been factually proven, yet is taught as fact in these “institutions of higher learning”.  I believe in an earlier post, you mentioned Strontium 90 as another method of dating.  It too, is flawed for the reasons I cited before.  Consequently, any method of radiometric dating cannot be considered 100% reliable.

A very good example of this is the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatan Peninsula which you cited in an earlier post, supposedly the “smoking gun” which “proves” that dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteor collision.  In the book, The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy, (Helix Books, Massachusetts, 1996), evolutionary geologist Charles Officer and science writer Jake Page point out that the geological evidence at Chicxulub does not fit.  Their analysis of the crater concluded that the dating was off by about 300,000 years…a mere “tick of the clock” as geological time goes, but using their timescale assumptions, the impact had to have occurred long before the time when the last of the dinosaurs were thought to have died out.  The impact theory is not commonly accepted even among evolution scientists.

Such theories are based on fragile and fallible assumptions.  Every new “adjustment” or “redating” is just as speculative.  The thing I find remarkable about so-called evolution “scientists” is that their hypotheses change about every twenty or so years.  It sounds a little to me like they’re guessing.  In my humble opinion, evolutionists are taking the greater leap of faith.  There is a greater and growing body of scientific evidence which supports the creation model if you simply look for it.  I know you’ll argue this into the ground, but the Bible has not changed in over 2,000 years.  Sorry to bore you with that “fundamentalist garbage”, or the “scriptures according to Scott”, but given how respectful and tolerant you’ve been toward my beliefs, I really didn’t think you’d mind.

Your upstairs neighbors must have been Jehovah's Witnesses.  I've had more than my share of problems with their doctrine, but that's a subject for another discussion.  Anyone who has taken the time to actually read the Bible knows that it says that no one, not even Christ Himself, knows the day nor the hour of His return (or the “rapture” as it’s commonly called, a word which is never used in the Bible).  My personal opinion is that God wanted us to always be ready for His return, and set things up so that we wouldn’t know the exact time.  As for how to be saved, it's quite simple; no "boring lecture" is required to explain it.

Regards,
Scott

(By the way, as to Darwin recanting his theories, it actually never happened.  I should have been more careful in checking my facts.  Nonetheless, it was a commonly known story, even though not factual.  I’m surprised you had never heard of it before).