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This is due to the fact that societies version of facts and logic are not the same as a person of faith's. To us, hearing we (humans) developed from monkeys or that the world came to be from meteors running into each other is irrational. Not saying you made those claims. I'm just using them as an example. At least what we believe has a historical document backing it up.
Are you seriously denying the reality of evolution? and NO, the world did not come into existence "from meteors running into each other"
I will not deny that the Bible, whichever version you happen to believe in, is a "historical document". That parts of it were written as far back as 3000 years would sort of make it "historical", that does not however lend any more credence to the 'history' told in it than the history we can read in Sumerian, or Egyptian or Chinese documents of similar age. There are far too many contradictions to be found within the pages of said text for it to be considered a totally reliable source. Archaeology has shown that many of the events that supposedly occurred earlier than approximately the early 8th Century BCE just didn't happen.