It's also irrelevant to me whether you consider this some sort of rhetorical victory. In short, I don't care what your belief system might be - it is you who appears threatened by my absence of belief.
My analogy with the Iliad and the Odyssey is no less relevant whether or not the Greeks believed their own mythology or not. The point at hand is that the accuracy of historical details in both the Iliad/Odyssey and the Hebrew Testaments do not establish the accuracy of metaphysical embellishments in either account.
If the Greeks chose to disbelieve the embellishments in their own writings, then they are simply wiser than those who would believe the embellishments in the Testaments despite any empirical evidence toward their accuracy.
I guess you missed my point... I'll spell it out for you carefully...
You are ignorant.
You're hanging your hat on an irrelevancy. The Iliad and the Odyssey are FICTION written around an historical event; the sacking of Troy. Homer essentially wrote a NOVEL! You are the ONLY person I have ever found who thinks they are meant to be historical texts! Of course the Greeks overlooked embellishments!
Now, your point is not made and you are grasping at straws. I don't care whether this is a rhetorical victory... I care that you are writing inanity and considering the case closed.
Once again, like the scientists of the thread, you seek any explanation or deflection that can possibly keep you from acknowledging God.