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[HydrogenBond]

Bible stories served the purpose of creating a lesson. It is loosely analogous to children's fable. I am not saying it is just a fable only it was there to teach a lesson. Relative to the great flood story, the reason it occurred, that is given, is god was mad at the sorry state of humanity. I am only telling the account and not placing any value judgement.

Relative to an ancient person hearing this account, they would be made more cautious about ignoring similar warnings about divine insight. Whatever behavior was included for the punishment of the story, would be resisted with more will power. I am not making a moral judgement only trying to guess how this story would affect the next generation of humans who heard it. They could not go back to the good old days of distorted instinct. The past was washed away in the story and a new path was given with the world refreshed. Noah hand picks the best animals and not the defective and mutant ones. The chosen animals seem to have an instinct for survival and migrate to the ark. The defective animals are eliminated with the defective and mutant humans. This is the lesson. Whether this occurred or not, it had an impact.

Here is an analogy of the debate. We start with the fable of the tortoise and hare. The lesson to be gained is steady perseverance can often do better than a bi-polar attitude of manic and lazy. Not a bad lesson to teach. Science says, we have data that proves that neither rabbits or turtles can talk or organize a race. Therefore, since this is not possible, except with quantum mechanics, the lesson you are trying to teach has no value. We conclude manic/lazy is good as perseverance. This way we don't hurt feelings and get the PC police to boycott further funding to your project. I look at this story, figuratively. It does not conflict with common sense and the science data, but still tells us something about social pushes that helped humanity to evolve.