Prove that God exists

[Runa216]

I'm seeing a lot of faulty arguments here...Mostly just one really big one repeated ad nauseum: just because the bible has some correct statements, includes some real people, and references some real events doesn't mean that it is an accurate historical document, especially not when you consider how stories were told and retold back in the day (which is why it's so hard to get an accurate historical document from back then.)

See the movie "big Fish". In that movie an old man is telling a series of stories to his grandson about his youth, telling about the "two sisters that were joined at the hip" and the "giant." As the grandfather tells these stories, the child imagines the sisters as siamese twins and the giant as a 12 foot tall man, but at the end when the grandfather dies, he meets all these people at his funeral and found that many of the descriptors of them were metaphorical or exagerrated for the sake of storytelling.

The bible, most likely, is similar to this. Some real people, real events, real attributes, but exagerrated claims. I think the overwhelming amount of impossibilities (Some figures living 600-800 years, the great flood, etc) and contradictions should attest to this.

At best, the bible is a series of stories based on real people, but meant not as authentic history, but moral tales reflecting those times.

I mean, does anyone think the world rests on the back of a giant tortoise? really?