re: Noah's Ark

My grandparents are very devout southern Baptist, and so of course they believe in the Ark, but I never expected to hear their response when I brought this up to them. We all know that the Bible cannot be taken literal in its scripture at times. You also have to consider the people during the time of Noah's Ark. To them, their world was the immediate region surrounding them. They had no idea how large the world was. It's not hard to imagine that maybe a large flood happened at some point, and Noah was able to build a boat capable of holding much of the local wildlife, and be able to manage for that amount of time. This seems much more reasonable to me, and maybe even possible. But like I said, the Bible can't be taken literally at times, and we also have to remember the known world to people of this time period. Give things a couple hundred years, and this story can be exaggerated beyond belief.

I told my grandma this expecting her to not have considered it, and even though she's 87 and set in her beliefs, she too considered that this may have actually been what happened. It's an inspiring story, nonetheless, and I'm sure people have made it larger than life over time to make sure it has more appeal.