I choose instead to accept that we have been animated in a virtual world and we are merely observers of some elaborate game.
The ancient world we see, with all the uncovered wonders and incredible engineering feats related to the real world. Let's say they are the file called The Real World. They relate to the true history and the true occurrences on real earth up to the point, of say The Great Flood. Let's say that history only goes up to a a hundred or so years prior to that occurrence.
Then some clever scientist/IT expert invented a Quantum Computer (Let's call it Noah's Ark for argument's sake) and was able to down load a complete copy of the real world on to it. He then saved the file as The Real World Revision 1. Then managed to find the means of reanimating all living DNA into that computer and got the world going again. Or a copy of that world.
Which means that everything that happened after that point was only on the Revision 1 version of the world and not on the original world. Which means that there are now two different version of the real world happening at the same time .... the one that experienced the great flood and beyond and the one that was based on the world up to the great flood.
What if WE are on the Revision 1 version. None the wiser and baffled how there is no evidence of the incredible evidence of civilisations that are seen in the lands? There will be no records because the scientist can have developed algorithms to wipe them all clean! Instead a fake story is introduced and all reference to anything beforehand no longer exists.
This to me is in perfect line with The Gnostic viewpoint and also with the virtual reality theories. This is the theory that we will be exploring ... a theory in which we propose the solar system around us is not how we are taught. It may well be in the original version; but not in the Revision 1 as the IT expert could only make a copy of the earth and some surrounding solar systems. He had to make amendments for this ... and therefore created algorithms that give them impression of space and stars and planets based on what was recorded into his copy. The immediate universe in our Revision 1 is something entirely different. Something we wouldn't expect.