I also know Scripture is for the revealing of salvation, not a science text. If it were, we'd know that our King has dna from His Father. Doesn't John Piper speak of creation in periods of time vs literal back in the 90's?
Archeologically, the flood story is told into the Americas. The Sphinx has water erosiion on it. We know there were "men of renown", we also know there is a great void of knowledge distroyed at the library of Alexandria.