Do you believe in the Noah’s Ark story? A literal interpretation of it, with all animals in the world travelling to Noah to get on his boat in pairs? And then surviving a year’s journey on the boat, both carnivores and herbivores, unscathed? Don’t worry, you are not alone.
What you are though, is the butt of jokes of people around the world, both religious and non-religious. The Noah’s Ark story is so ridiculous that only religion – with its amazing evolutionary ability to shut off the human function of reason – can persuade people to believe it wholeheartedly without challenge.
In my experience, most people believe religious stories without a lot of critical thought because the stories are tradition, and believing in them goes without saying. But there are a lot of logistical and just common sense ways to determine the whole story is hogwash, and that is what this video does unashamedly.
Consider the case of Ken Ham, the US based creationist zealot who just spent $100m to build a replica of Noah’s ark. With $100m, all the wonders of modern engineering and technology, and utlising the best creationist’s minds he could find – it took him two years and all that money to build a replica that cannot float.
Yet we’re supposed to believe a prehistoric man with zero resources and without access to modern technology, helped by just his six family members, built the same thing, and enabled it to float. I don’t believe there is a bigger insult to man’s cumulative intelligence.
And that’s even before we get into the impracticality of getting penguins, polar bears and kangaroos to get to one location in the world, and then return from whence they came.
Watch the video below titled ’39 Problems with the Noah’s Ark Story’