This fits a pattern in science: the further we look, the more we find. First we thought the Earth was the center of the universe. Then we thought it was just o

This fits a pattern in science: the further we look, the more we find. First we thought the Earth was the center of the universe. Then we thought it was just our solar system. Then we thought the Milky Way Galaxy was the whole of the universe. Some astronomers persisted in this belief all the way up to the 1920s. Now... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field#Hubble_eXtreme_Deep_Field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field#Hubble... ... and we've just launched the JWST which will be able to see a lot further than Hubble. Gobekli Tepe pushed the date for civilization back a few thousand years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe It'll probably get pushed back some more. Also I've always thought there are too many flood myths around the world for it to be chance. No I don't think there was a true global flood since it makes no sense, but the end of the ice age would have brought sea level rise and enormous regional floods due to things like the bursting of glacial dams. This would have occurred over the same period of time across the world, leaving behind traces in myth and legend but also physically destroying a lot of evidence of civilizations in the path of these disasters.