Even Christian sites like Answers in Genesis find Wyatt to have been a fraud. They did a writeup on Wyatt's "Ark" here.

Not only are events such as Noah's Ark flat out impossible, they are, you will find if you look for credible non biased sources, NOT EVEN ORIGINAL. The story of Noah's Ark is a pieced together retelling of the story of Gilgamesh with some Egyptian mythology thrown in. You will find very significant pieces of many of the stories in the bible in older religious works. Much of Jesus' life was plagurized from other "saviors" all gods based around the "sun" (there's a reason for that, look it up)

Impossible? What're you talking about?

Are you saying that the grand canyon wasn't carved by The Flood? Are you saying that there's no way Noah could've gotten two of every species on the boat, along with enough food, and a big room for poo? Are you insinuating there isn't enough water to flood the earth?!?

I'll have you know, if the earth were perfectly spherical (no mountains or valleys, but not adjusting for equatorial bulge), the ground would be something like ten feet under water! (I just made that up.) So, all that's required for the flood story to be true is, God made the earth perfectly spherical. And the draught of the ark was exceptionally shallow, especially considering all the poo.

While your sources are suspect, it would be foolish to get drawn into this matter of "proofs" in scripture.

It is possible, in fact, undeniable, that many of the events recorded in various religious records did occur in some form.

Atheists are not trying specifically to refute the verity of such recorded events. That is not relevant to the central belief in a deity or supernatural involvement in such events. There are non-believers active in the research of "biblical history" as well;  after all, these are some of the oldest records of human history, even if it is coloured by superstitious or religious understandings.

The burden of proof is on the believer. If there was an ark, in any form, does that prove God? If the Red Sea was once a muddy death trap, does that prove God? Because the walls of Jericho are no more, must it have been God that defeated them?

You know the answer. Scholars studying such events have remarkably found natural explanations. Your God "works in mysterious ways," which is to say that not a thing you would pose as proof will help your case, because there is no proof. A circular argument only borne up by "faith."

I know that faith is the basis of your religion; of all religions (even those without historical books of laws and parables). But do you?

We would be left without much pre-Roman history if we disregarded everything that was presented through a superstitious/religious interpretation. The flood myth is widespread among different cultures, suggesting that there is some basis for it. Some scholars believe that it may refer to rapidly rising sea levels following the last ice age; William Ryan and Walter Pitman's theory about massive flooding into the Black Sea is very credible (keeping in mind that our understanding of the breadth of the "world," even in much more recent times, was flawed).

Of course, if you accept such explanations it still blows the supernatural suppositions out of the water.

Denying the stories out of hand only sets us up for a meal of crow if any evidence turns up, and to what purpose? Just to call people liars who have been dead for thousands of years? It would be amazing to discover that such nearly prehistoric peoples were capable of constructing a ship of Ark scale, but it would not prove anything supernatural. Rather, it would be a testament to the longstanding ingenuity of our species.

If Noah took 2 of every species on the ark and parked in a boat slip atop Mt Ararat where they all disembarked explain why there are no kangaroos in Africa, no Diamondback rattlers in Egypt, no llamas in Europe, no panda bears in Brazil, and no elephants in North America. Did they all have directions to go to specific places? None of the wombats or the Tasmanian Devils wanted to hang out in Asia or India on the way to Australia?

As to the reality of a world wide flood there is not enough water on this planet to cover all the dry land to the highest peak. Do the math. The best I can come up with is to look to the Gilgamesh story and Sumerian legends which speak of 6 days and nights of rain and a huge surge of water driven by the south wind. Sumer was located in ancient Iraq. As someone who lived in Florida I know exactly what that sounds like. If a very large hurricane such as a category 5 went into the Persian Gulf the effect would be magnified as it hit Iraq or ancient Mesopotamia. The surge would have been high enough to wash away much of their known world at the time. Since they had no Weather Channel to warn them they'd of course think it was their gods trying to destroy them.

I have to digress here a little. It was believed for centuries that the amazon women myth was just that, a myth. However, recent discoveries of a tomb in western russia have traced a possible source back to the women warriors and every so often a child is born in Siberia with these genetic markers matching the remains in the tomb found in west russia. Using "history" from Horoditus I believe it was, they found mention of a group of women warriors that were captured in battle and sent by boat by the captives. It's possible according to the documentary that the boat sunk somewhere in the Black Sea and stranded the women miles from home. The remaining survivors may have remained in eastern Europe and married into the local populace. It was a fascinating documentary on PBS on "Secrets of the Dead" I believe.

Perhaps it sounded like my mind was closed to the idea, but until evidence begins to support that a global flood occured 4,200 years ago the burden of proof is not on the atheist. I used the 4,200 years as a reference to what most YECs believe. If there actually was a global scale flood it might have occured millions of years ago for all we know. The same goes for the Exodus. If one source claims that a group of Hebrews left Egypt and yet there is no corroborating evidence to support the claim, then as a skeptic I still place burden of proof on the bible.

Back to my point, lack of belief in amazon warriors due to the lack of evidence is hardly a problem for a skeptic. I hold the view now that they may have indeed existed because scholars have been able to piece together convincing evidence and this is what I expect of any legitimate claim. You see I don't dismiss ideas without merit, I just dismiss ideas that haven't been proven to contain any merit.

I guess my point with this assertion is that you are correct that dimissing an idea just to dismiss it is irrational. We may never really know an exact history of the Earth. I agree, the wide spread myth is somewhat of a conundrum. I know that you do not believe in a god caused global flood but there may still be some valid explaination for the breadth of stories from varying culture claiming a gloabl flood. I find that contamination of cultures is probably one of the biggest culprits, but it would be interesting for someone to do a textual criticism of some type to find out how these myths spread across various cultures.

The search for truth doesn't end when someone claims to be 100% sure something is true. I merely stated that unless someone has some very tangible evidence then stop stating it to be a fact. I will do my best to fight claims that a global flood or the exodus happened because I do not believe religion should be a taboo subject undeserving of critique. Also, I do not hold any views that I am unwilling to eat a little crow over. I have changed my mind on many occasions when presented with proof and am sure I will many times in the future.

A side note on your comment. I believe that there is a whole history of our species that we do not yet know. Science is still such a new aspect of our world and promises to open many new windows to look at our past. It is just now starting to get accepted that the first Americans may have sailed here instead of all coming over the Bering Straits. The proof has yet to be found, but if this is true it is clearly a triumph of our species.

Lots of big floods, lots of big stories ....   and of course gawed done it ....