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.

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