[John K.]

The story of Noah is actually a sythesis of dozens of similar flood stories told by a number of Mideast cultures of the time. In fact, there are two entirely contradictory versions of the story of Noah in Genesis. Also, while your ideas are interesting, they ignore another weakness of the Biblical ‘history’. How could the handful of people (let alone animals) provide the viable gene pool necessary for genetic variety? A similar example would be the insistence that Adam and Eve were the only two people around, who then led to the rest of the multitude who perished in the flood. That’s a heck of a lot of inbreeding!

Besides, if you take the story of Noah literally, God looks awefully vindictive. First he punished humanity with original sin after the Fall, then he wipes out humanity for not learning the lesson. But he allows a few to live…but keeps the original sin! Why not just wipe everyone out and start over? I prefer to think that the story was written (and rewritten, hence the differing accounts) in order to satisfy an allegorical function.

While I greatly appreciate your inclusion of science in your faith, I do find it a little odd that you include evolutionary concepts within a literal interpretation of the Bible. Such a strong fundamentalist viewpiont usually does not lend itself to the theory of evolution, as recent events have made clear. Nice change of pace!

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Name : John K., Gender : M, Age : 27, City : Cranford, State : NJ, Country : United States, Occupation : Chemical Engineer, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,