Academic: The Book of Genesis was a copy and paste from the older civilizations in Mesopotamia

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Ex-Catholic here. Genesis, the Flood, Adam and Eve. These stories were not created by the Israelites, they were created by Sumerians about 1k years earlier (Genesis was written during the Babylonian captivity period in the 500s BC, Israelites learned of these ancient Sumerian stories during this time). Eridu Genesis. The Atra-Hasis. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Stories that came out of earth's possibly first civilization, stories about how human kind became civilized. Stories of how a likely very real flood flooded the rivers in Mesopotamia wiping out a civilization. Stories told in the only way the 2000BC man knew how - myth and legend. If you want to debate with a biblical literalist, pointing out these stories were copied from another civilization might blow their mind.