Let me first start by saying that me bringing up these stories is not a troll to start a religious debate (I'm tired guys, I'm getting too old for it, I just want to bring them to your attention so that it might give you a little entertainment on this cold sunday afternoon. I've been interested in world mysteries since I was a child and read everything I could about them, later fired by the stories of Lyall Watson and Danniken. Little by little though, Danniken, Watson and many - but not all - of the mysteries I once believed to be real were shown to be either hoaxes or simple misinterpretation of the evidence. One particular mystery, that of the Coso Geode (a piece of electrical gubbins found in a 500,000 year old geode), had me quite perplexed until I happened upon the true story behind it. The tale of this geode and our acceptance of it as a true artifact are a good illustration of the nature of belief. Even reading the first part of the story again now, seeing the evidence as it was presented then, it's still compelling to hope against logic that it was what it first seemed. A very interesting read: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/coso.html The second story is....wait for it...about the Flood and the supposed discovery of Noah's ark in 1993. Again, the reason for telling this tale is to show the nature of belief and ready acceptance; but I also include it to show that although the story HAS been refuted, many people haven't read that it has and still believe the events in the original story to be real. Thankfully this really is a case of the entire story being disproven, not by biased evidence presented by a pro or anti researcher, but the admission of the person who perpetrated it as a hoax in the first place. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/ark-hoax/jammal.html Finally, something that I posted last year, but I still keep returning to myself every now and again as I find it so fascinating, a detailed list of all world Flood stories (nearly 100) of them. What they prove or don't prove I don't really care about at this moment, it's just a damn good read. http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-flood.html Have fun MelT