back after a long time.

It's 3 am in the morning and some things run through my head.

When it comes to apologetics I always think of the more technical side of things. The things that the people who consider themselves logical and intellectual tend to rely.

The logical and intellectual need evidence to lean on. To believe in God: no solid evidence, and peers may judge them foolish. To not believe in God: plenty of "evidence" available - although mostly generated by the selfsame peers - and a far more comfortable position to hold, since as human beings it's extremely unpleasant to go against ideas respected by others.

I can't sleep. Because the areas of contention keep running through my head.

Let's see. I read somewhere else, something along the lines of "How can people believe in a text that is obviously altered down the years, changed repeatedly according to agendas?"

Easy enough. The original manuscripts dating back to time of writing exist; it's not a long daisy-chain of translations going backwards in time. Originals are taken out, and examined, and retranslated each time we have a new Bible version. And the Aramaic and Greek are translated the same way hundreds of thousands of other non-related texts are translated, so not much room for argument there.

There's a huge list for Flood related points of contention. That includes strata deposition (reasons for uniformity); the reasoning behind strata-based dating (supposedly strata age->fossil age ->back to strata age, circularly, but what happened to carbon 14 dating (good up to about 60k years) and others. Here's a link :

http://www.godspointofview.com/public/answers/flood.html

Evolution? I always found there's one basic principle evolution violates the most badly. The principle of systems always decreasing in order of complexity and stability over time, not increasing.

Evolution requires that order and complexity of the global or smaller ecosystems and their subsystems (habitats, species, individual organisms etc) increase over several million years, purely by chance. I believe it's a fundamental of systems that

1) without outside intervention they, on average, steadily decay as time passes
2) decay decreases level of complexity and order.

Technically life consists of very very complex systems of energy and matter flow. Tiny disruptions over time are enough to decrease order and complexity significantly; increases in order and complexity by sheer chance are outnumbered by the decreases.

The Bible gives evidence for God's existence based on the level of complexity and order the world demonstrates. External influence is required to design/maintain complex systems. I believe that's an incredibly difficult observation to topple.