That is not a question that Atheism answers. However the accepted answer from the field of biology is that it is the result of millennia of evolution. Human consciousness is not all that different from the consciousness of other animals.
There is a subtle difference between believing that God...
It would seem that those that unearth such evidence find the evidence they want to find. Take for example the Exodus, most recent scholarship maintains that no such event occurred, at least not on the scale described in the Bible. Whereas in the past just the opposite was found.
You are right. In total 97% of Mark is duplicated in Matthew
https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/how-editorial-fatigue-shows-that-matthew-and-luke-copied-mark/
Let's not confuse two separate issues 1. Noah's Ark may or may not have been real. & 2. All claims to have found Noah's Ark have not stood up to critical scrutiny.
To claim that Jesus was an "eyewitness" to Noah's day asks us to consider Jesus' nature as a Man, a god or a God-Man, which is a...
For myself, that is precisely how I feel. Those in charge of public health and sanitation may want to dispose of the body in a "proper" manner, but it none of my concern.