So what. People will see closet monsters. Whether it actually be a monster or not is quite another thing. When one turns on the light, said evidences tend to disappear. There is no evidence precluding a global flood.
As for what people believe vs. what makes them "devout" that's quite another thing. Belief doesn't = truth. And blind faith is folly.
It is possible to make a number of predictions about what you'd expect to see in the rocks if there had been a global flood around 5000 years ago. Coyoteman is an archeologist who can date continuous settlements at the same sites back to well beyond that date. Those predictions don't come true. Also there is no genetic bottleneck dating back to that time, as would be required by the entire world ecology being saved on a boat. The number of alleles at many loci in the human genome is far too high for example to have come from 8 individuals that recently. That evidence alone falsifies any literal interpretation of the Noah story.
And blind faith is folly.
Agreed.
A former creationist describes why he left creationism after he saw the evidence.