A new take on a very old story. A new one for me, anyway.

[Siwsan]

[debm55]

1. Ty Siwsan.

[CanonRay]

2. Stupid on so many levels

[Think. Again.]

3. Ha! yeah, the bible is basically a collection....

...of kid's bedtime stories with some attempt of indoctrinating a "moral" or two from all the different tribal folklores of the time.

Silly stuff really.

[yellowdogintexas]

5. my Old Testament professor described the entire book of Genesis as the mythology of the Hebrews

Mythology (he said) is the attempt of primitive people to explain things they do not understand.
All of the early Biblical stories were tales passed along by the storytellers; the Hebrews did not start writing things down until after the Babylonian captivity. The realized that if the people were scattered, their traditions would be lost.

[Think. Again.]

6. I don't know much about part one, but I think the updated part 2...

...was put together from all the different myths of all the different groups: druids, pagans, whatever, all the local separate groups that happened to have traditional stories that could be modified into one collection that could be claimed by one big group, just to pull everyone under one common authority.

[yellowdogintexas]

7. all the major mythologies and ancient religions have remarkable similarities

It makes me wonder how these stories arose in the way they did since the different civilizations were located in so many different parts of the world.

[Think. Again.]

8. It is kinda weird...

...I've always been amazed at the how the ancient stories of dragons describe these very large, winged, feathered, ancient reptiles even though the people living then had no idea that dinosaurs, which evolved into birds, ever existed.

But the origins of most of the bible stories are known to date back way before the dawn of the common era (AD= After (christ's) Death), like the flood story in the OP, which most likely originated from very, very old tales of the re-flooding of the Black Sea, or how Jesus' birth was chosen as December 25 to incorporate the celebrations of the winter soltice.

[Grokenstein]

4. The awful 1999 miniseries made a half-assed attempt to address that

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In the end, the resulting Waterworld-style shenanigans are ended when God sends a little extra murderous dickery in the form of a selective tsunami.

Aside from that, the Argentinian cartoon El Arca depicts the ark as a massive cruise ship for animals with massive glass windows (cough) and a completely useless helm (so Noah's sons and their wives have something to squabble over). A pair of evil moneychangers stow away with the animals but God lets it slide and they are presumably eaten by bears in the end. (I only bring this one up because when Shout! Factory imported the English dub on DVD they slashed fifteen minutes' worth of material they worried might offend Christians, and the Tallahassee Taliban still got their knickers in a very angry twist.)