Forgive me, I'm rather new to this forum and I don't have the time to read through 90 pages of discussion about population rates and such. So if these questions are repetitious, please discount any impatience or angst you may have toward me.
The primary questions that should be asked, or at least as it seems to me, are three justifications.
1.) Why should the entire Bible be taken literally?
2.) What proof is there that the entire Bible is divinely inspired (or any portion thereof)?
3.) Why should the Bible be treated (regardless of literal intent or figurative intent) as absolute Truth?