Sorry for the necropost, but I wanted to respond to some stuff here.
Sort of, by how accurate and historical the bible is.
Many historical events are recorded in the bible (Fall of Jerusalem, Jewish exile in Babylon, Reign of King David etc.).
Yes, and many historical events are recorded in the Iliad, Gone With the Wind, etc. Doesn't lend credence to other specific events contained therein.
And lastly what I meant be "early history of the earth" is its formation and evolution over the past four and a half billion years as well as the Big Bang.
Except the Bible is drastically wrong about the dates for all of those, as well as the order. The sun is created at the same time as all the other stars, and not only is the Earth created before them, but
plants are as well.
All the heavens are created to light the Earth? Does that include stars, galaxies, etc, we can only see with a telescope? How about quasars and other stuff we can only see with a radio telescope? How about stuff we can't see at all?
Also scientists have discovered a "mitochondrial Eve" which most of humanity descendad from a hundred thousand or so years ago. Which gives evidence that atleast one of the Abrahamic Religions might be true (I'll study further).
Except a hundred thousand years ago (140,000 actually) is way before the Earth should have been around (and I don't care
how you count the genealogies, different scholars obtain different dates, but there's no way you're getting a 140,000 years). Also, mitochondrial Eve is only the ancestor of all
living humans. She's just the most recent common ancestor, and humans (or proto-humans) existed long before her. Mitochondrial Adam, by the way, would have lived 80,000 years later. Their existence is simply a dact of the way heredity works in
any sexually reproducing species; in any such species, if you go back far enough, you will find two common ancestors from which all living members of the species are descended. There was also at some point
one bacteria from whom the whole human race is descended.