Human Rationalization Keeps the Bible Alive

I have tried to figure out why people who appear reasonable 6 days a week, suddenly become unreasonable and gullible on Sunday morning. I can only attribute this to the ability of the human mind to rationalize those things that seem irrational. Here are some examples.

Biblical Age of Earth 6 to 10 Thousand years - Although modern science has disproved this beyond a doubt, many religious people have managed reconcile the difference. They say that the timescale was not the same. In the bible, a day may be hundreds of thousands of years. And a year could be millions! After all, God works in mysterious ways.

Noah's flood covered the earth and all the mountains -  Current scientific calculations have proven that there is not enough water on the earth to produce the effect mentioned in the KJ Bible. That idea is totally ludicrous. So, Biblical devotees say that it was only the known world at that time that was included. Even so, the "mountains" that were covered were probably just hills.
Science does not negate the occurrence of a massive flood.  There have been numerous occasions of massive flood in the early years of the Middle East. Some occurred at the end of the Ice Age as massive amounts of ice was melting and sea levels were rising.

Noah took sample of all the Animals on Earth onto his little ark -  If we actually count all the different species of animals on the earth and try to take 2 of each and put them on a ship, then the Titanic would not have been big enough. Some Biblical followers suggest that the Ark was just a floating gateway to a much larger magical, spiritual region where the actual animals were kept.
They weren't kept in the physical form but in a special form created by God. Yes, this is a very mysterious way to work!

These are just a few examples. There are many, many more.