I left this forum a while ago, but realised i left this thread up. So i'll just respond to what was posted briefly:
''Uhm okay, jesus walked on water. Go''
- Most probably he walked on ice. A recent scientific paper was published on this (2006). The temperature around the Sea of Galilee in the early 1st century AD was a lot colder as climatologists have discovered and therefore the sub-zero temperatures could have caused the formation of quite thick ice to support the weight of a man.
''Alternatively, God flooded the entire earth. Go.''
-This is a misunderstanding of the Hebrew for 'earth' - erets. It actually translates as a local land, country etc. The ancient authors of the Old Testament had a limited ancient near eastern geographical knowledge, they didn't know the whole world.
- There is geological evidence (and historic) that Mesopotamia was flooded locally. The archaeologist Leonard Woolley identified the flood strata at Ur, but other's have also been found (e.g. at Kish).
''All human languages originated during the destruction of the Tower of Babel (i.e. after the Flood!).''
- A mistranslation. What actually happened at the Tower was the 'confusion' of designs for the tower. Note: The tower was never finished because no one could decide how it was to be designed or completed. You can find the correct translation in the Ferrar Fenton Bible which reads (Gen. xi. 11): ''I will go down and frustrate their designs, so that one will not listen to one's proposals''
''Asians and Native Americans are descended from either Ham, Shem or Japeth.''
- This is not in the Bible.
- The authors of Genesis had a limited ethnographic knowledge, they had very little knowledge of other races - certianly they did not know of East Asians, Indians, Sub-Saharan Africans or Native Americans etc.
''David's kingdom was the largest and most powerful in the region.''
- Inscriptions have been found which describe David's kingdom, it was therefore historic. That is is described as the most powerful could have been an exaggeration, from an ethnocentric point of view, however David's kingdom regardless of its power and size has been proven to have existed by archaelogical finds.
''would like to see some evidence of babylon''
- Babylon has been verified by ancient historical accounts and archaeology. You may have confused for ''Babel'', however most scholars agree Babel was on the same site as Babylon (but predated the Babylonians).