Ho Boy, this here is a doozy! Today the ID covers Noah, the storied Biblical figure who purportedly built a giant ark, shoved a bunch of animals onto it, then puttered around the world while the Big Man in The Sky rained cats and dogs on everyone else and flooded the whole dang thing.
First, I'll address some of my own issues with this story, despite knowing it's surely a parable and not supposed to represent actual events. First of all, let's allow that a ship large enough to hold 2 of each animal in the world can be built. How's a guy going to feed all of those animals for almost an entire year (290 days (40 days of rain, 150 days sailing while the floods receded, and 100 days stranded on top of Mount Ararat)) ? Not to mention the number of carnivores there must be in that bunch.
I did find a couple of things interesting in the ID reading, however. Firstly, apparently the story of Noah contains the first mention of wine in the Bible.
Secondly, apparently there's some mild disagreement between the Christians and the Jews as to the interpretation of this story. The Christians view Noah as having ultimate faith in God, considering that he built a giant ark based solely . The Jews, on the other hand, choose to look at the order in which people boarded the ark. Noah was last to board, the Jewish tradition holds that this is actually depicting Noah's reticence, and thus lack of ultimate faith in God. It's always interesting to me to see how different groups (whether along religious, cultural, or other lines) can interpret the same story in vastly different ways. Neat.
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