I was forced to go to Sunday School when I was young, but I can’t remember ever being young enough to believe the flood story.
Some dude put two of each animal on a boat? Two of everything? Even the things that eat each-other? And how did these animals get to him? He lived in the middle east and had access to a breeding pair of polar bears? He had enough animal feed on his boat for 40 days and nights of feeding? What was he feeding the carnivores? Did he bring spares of some of the animals so they could be fed to the others? For the herbivores, he seriously had enough food for 2 of everything for a month? Do you know how much an elephant or hippo eats?
The only part of the flood story I think is interesting is that apparently they’ve found some catastrophic floods that might have been passed down in stories and used for inspiration for that bible story. Like, there is evidence that at one point part of the middle east was below sea level, and erosion caused some barrier to break, and vast amounts of water flooded in. To anybody who experienced that, it must have seemed like the work of a god.
I was forced to go to Sunday School when I was young, but I can’t remember ever being young enough to believe the flood story.
Some dude put two of each animal on a boat? Two of everything? Even the things that eat each-other? And how did these animals get to him? He lived in the middle east and had access to a breeding pair of polar bears? He had enough animal feed on his boat for 40 days and nights of feeding? What was he feeding the carnivores? Did he bring spares of some of the animals so they could be fed to the others? For the herbivores, he seriously had enough food for 2 of everything for a month? Do you know how much an elephant or hippo eats?
The only part of the flood story I think is interesting is that apparently they’ve found some catastrophic floods that might have been passed down in stories and used for inspiration for that bible story. Like, there is evidence that at one point part of the middle east was below sea level, and erosion caused some barrier to break, and vast amounts of water flooded in. To anybody who experienced that, it must have seemed like the work of a god.