Christianity's Titanic

The story of Noah’s Ark is a perfect example of complete absurdities passed off as literal truth. According to the account in the Bible and the Torah, a global flood wiped out all life except a single family and pairs of animals preserved on a wooden vessel built with primitive tools, and this was not presented as allegory for most of religious history. It was taught as literal fact: the Earth was drowned, mountains were covered, and every land animal was either aboard or drowned before the survivors repopulated the planet. Taken seriously, the story is not merely unlikely but impossible. The logistics alone are fatal. Millions of species did not exist as breeding pairs in the ancient world, nor could they be housed, fed, cleaned, and separated by diet and habitat on a wooden structure. Carnivores would have required fresh meat, while parasites, insects, and microorganisms are either ignored or would have rendered the exercise pointless. After the flood, animals would have had to migrate across oceans and continents without leaving genetic bottlenecks so extreme that modern biology would immediately reveal them, and it does.