flood
The flood. Noah’s ark. Good lord, what a shit show. I mean seriously that story is off the carts ridiculous - more than any other.
Which proves one big thing:
First, though, every religion wants its own story about its own god and will copy others to make it so. This flood story has been around the block so let’s not get too excited.
But, most importantly, the flood story proves…
The, off-the-charts, amazing, sometimes ludicrous and desperate measures some modern religious people will go to make ancient stories literal. There’s a museum dedicated to Noah’s Ark for fuck’s sake. People visit this place. We know people that have.
Are you kidding me?
How did all of the animals traverse the distance? Think about a grizzly bear traversing down to… Mesopotamia? And a polar bear? And were saber tooth tigers alive?
Let’s say they made it. How did these animals (that survive on each other) not kill each other?
Let’s say they didn’t kill each other? How did they eat? All the different foods they would need?
Let’s say they were fed. How did they manage cold/hot/humid…. all the environments the would need.
Let’s say there was a miracle… how about the animals with lifespans way less than 40 days?
Let’s say they did survive. Some might say… well…. there didn’t need to be that many species because all the others came from those foundational species? Like evolution? In under 10,000 years?
My god, this is fucking absolutely nuts to literally believe. And yet… so many do…
Alright, so ignore that for a second. More importantly, what’s the story saying?
Nature is wild. It does sometimes create massive floods and mass extinctions. And yet, as crazy as nature is, life is more wild. It always survives. Damn.
And then there’s this lesson: sometimes the biggest mistake someone can make in life is laughing at someone for what you think is the biggest mistake of their life.