Plate tectonics, fossilized remains of fish/animals in the desert, and an uneducated population demanding answers from the priest/leadership class explains the rest.
They just made it up. For control.
"God told [the elites], you must obey [the elites], or else."
Evidence: We still tell our children outrageously fraudulent stories with embedded morals in order to alter their behavior.
Plate tectonics, fossilized remains of fish/animals in the desert, and an uneducated population demanding answers from the priest/leadership class explains the rest.
They just made it up. For control.
"God told [the elites], you must obey [the elites], or else."
Evidence: We still tell our children outrageously fraudulent stories with embedded morals in order to alter their behavior.
It's the most likely explanation we have.