Also there is so much archeological evidence to back up the bibles accuracy in its descriptions of the land, of the nations and religions around them, in their battles and in their everyday practices...
Where, exactly, is all this "evidence" of battles, and captivities in Egypt, and glorious temples that Solomon built?
There isn't any, Peg! The Odyssey describes all sorts of places around the whole Mediterranean with as much accuracy as Genesis does - why is a comparison "ludicrous?"
Only because Peg wants the Bible to be TRVTH, that's why.
"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons,
ca. 830 AD