> Noah and the flood....."Uhhh, nope can't find any geological evidence of that either."
Actually, the flood story is prevalent throughout the Mideast and a lot of Asia.
My favorite explanation for the flood myth is that this might be what happened when the waters of the Aegean flooded through the Bosporus into the Black Sea.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
Some question how catastrophic this event was in that it might have not happened suddenly but over a matter of centuries, but it would be a serious devastation for those who lived by the sea and their villages were inundated, never to be seen again.
There are a number of events that might have triggered the original story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth