@neologist,
For the record, neologist, I don't take you seriously either.
"common ancestor" does not mean ALL ancestors were in common, it just means ONE ancestor's genes spread widely. There were millions of other ancestors at that point also contributing to the rest of the gene pool. So unless your hypothetical Eve had a few million husbands, that argument just doesn't work.
Siumilarly with your other points. Myths are myths. They're teaching stories. Tieing them to actual physical events or realities is hopelessly unproductive. Dlo you think the sun is actually carried around the sky by some guy in a chariot? Picking and choosing bits of myths and saying this one has a little bit of truth in it is really cherry-picking the evidence. Please point out some nephel that exists today, or that you can demonstrate existed in the last four thousand years, and that agument may hold some water.
Flood myths tend to exist where there are floods (notice the plural), in cultures near large rivers that flood regularly (Nile, Tigris, Euphrates, for example), or near an ocean or sea. Cultures far away from such locations or out of contact with them, don't have those myths.
There is, further, no universal flood deposition layer that occurs in all, or even most, of the world's physical stratigraphy. There simply isn't. I can tell you from personal experience that there isn't.
If you're going to claim that different faunal and floral assemblages on different continents, down to the submicroscopic level, which would have perished entirely if submerged for any length of time, were somehow miraculously kept alive by god's intervention in the millions of cases that would need to have happened, Noah would not have been needed at all, and there were no Noahs amongst the Maya, or in the Great Rift Valley. Your attempted explanation is simply pulling a rabbit out of a hat. As ros says, if you're going to argue magic, you're not dealing with the reality.
