Noah's Ark
Belief in God or in any religion seems reasonable
to me. However, fundamentalists who believe that there are no metaphors or
stories in the Bible, and that every word is the literal absolute truth, are
woefully ignorant.Fundamentalists
always want to attack evolution, because without considerable study it seems
unlikely and complicated. They see science as an attack on religion, and
evolution looks like a weak link of
science.An easy weak link of
fundamentalism is the story of Noah's ark. It's a great story, everybody knows
it, but if you accept every word of it as the literal truth, it is -- with only
the smallest amount of thought -- obviously preposterous. Just think about the
logistics of collecting every species on the planet (including dinosaurs),
housing and feeding them on a big boat for six months (with only eight people),
and then putting them back where they belong, in the Galapagos Islands,
Antarctica, or wherever.Come
on!Fundamentalists have no difficulty
seeing the older Sumerian story of Utnapishtim as just
a story. What's so different about
Noah? "God made man, but he used the
monkey to do it." --
Devo
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