kraftiekortie wrote:
There could have been a big flood in the Levant around 2300 BC or so. That doesn’t prove that there was a Noah or an Ark.
That wouldn’t be good enough for fundamentalists. They insist that it was a global flood.
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This two of every species thing…..is an obvious instance of allegory.
When I was a kid, I thought that it must have been sort of like that scene in The Sword in the Stone when all those objects get smaller as they hop into Merlin’s bag. I was rather proud of myself for this
completely satisfactory solution to the problem.
(The fact that there is no evidence for this in the Bible was inconsequential to me.)
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