""The simplest explanation of ancient flood stories on different continents is different floods. or even just that big floods make for memorable stories.""

The simplest explanation, surely, would be a super tsunami which was sufficiently huge to travel right round the globe.

We know that scientists are expecting the La Palma landslip to produce something of the kind and have evidence of previous events (e.g.the most likely cause of the disappearance of a whole Mediterranean civilisation).

I have no problem with either Creationism or Evolution as concepts, but I have the strongest possible objection to teaching Creationism as science, and would have an equally strong objection to any suggestion of teaching science as a faith.

They are intrinsically different.

Don T.