re: Don't take the Bible literally says scholar who brought earliest Latin analysis of Gospels

Rock monsters built that boat baw

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I encourage people to do the same for atheist teachings like evolution.

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All talk about improbable stories aside, I find it fascinating that a lot of the advice of the Bible still has relevance considering it was written by somebody who had to be a lot more primitive than anybody today.

Problems/questions people have are still basically the same in a lot of ways regardless of the technological noise.

and I am not religious, haven't looked at a Bible in any sort of depth since I was about 12

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Are there people with IQs above room temperature who actually take Noah's story as undeniable fact?

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Many people do. Most people that I have met think the biblical flood lasted only a little over 40 days and 40 nights.

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Are there people with IQs above room temperature who actually take Noah's story as undeniable fact?

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Probably not many. But it is interesting that many many religions start with a flood narrative. The humans that we stem from may have experienced a catastrophic flood event and passed the tales down through time.

There was, unquestionably, an enormous flood in the Near East several thousand years ago. Why this means that we are all from Noah, I do not know, other than lazy belief. I think we miss out on OT interpretations that are meant solely for Hebrews and apply them universally.

el Gaucho is the best baw troll here besides LucasP.

There probably was an ancient flood in the fertile crescent and somebody rescued a couple stranded animals and it turned into a Paul Bunyan tale that we know as Noah's ark

I thought he believed in the Aqua Buddha

This has always been the case.

For example, "eye for an eye tooth for a tooth" is stating that the punishment should fit the crime, when read in context.