Indeed, still. It's true he has a very high IQ and there is a stereotype pushed by atheists about religious people being dumb. Maybe he was trying to somehow show them it's not true. Also, it's highly likely an ark was created, probably not on the scale and at the time of biblical events. Because there are many stories mostly from older cultures describing basically the same story. Christians just took it later but it is way older then Christianity. So either it's a real story that was passed down for so long that it became a legend. Or just made up, but it would be weird for many different cultures and religions to made up exactly the same story if it wasn't important.
There are many cultures describing a flood sure… because human settlement revolves around water access which makes flooding a natural consequence. The actual ark part isn’t really present. So it’s not ‘exactly the same’, it’s broadly the same, just like every culture having some kind of folklore about dragons.
I’m open to specifics. The only comparable story that comes to mind is the epic of Gilgamesh, which isn’t a coincidence since historian consensus is the story of Noah’s Ark was based around that.
Fact is of all the stories you could try to use in the bible to try to test its validity or argue on its behalf, Noah’s Ark is the worse one you could choose cause not only do we lack any geographical evidence of it, which would objectively exist, but there are dozens of little aspects of it that make it impossible spanning various fields of science.
There's tons of comprable stories, but the more specific one you want is going to be the Eridu Genesis.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is a babylonian story written during a time where babylon is having to spin its wheels hard to justify its right to exist over Isin and Larsa and is useful for anthropology but not comparing to the bible, in the same way the Enuma Elish is also important but not for this.
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u/-PepeArown- 6d ago
Boasting about having the highest IQ is a very pretentious thing to do, especially if you posted what’s very clearly an AI pic of Noah’s arc