No one would sit up late listening to their elders if the stories were not "cool". I probably would have never opened the bible when I was a kid except for the "cool" illustrations.
With all due respect, you and the other rational thinkers are wasting their time. I've watched these threads for nearly ten years (longer than my screen name as I had to re-register in '99) and absolutely no piece of evidence or logic will convince these people. You could give them 10,000 bits and they'll pick out the one that has a flaw. The truth is they will never believe because they simply don't want to.
In past centuries they'd have insisted the earth was flat, that diseases were caused by demons, and the heavens revolved around the earth.
The sad part is that they can't even see that.