Try believing this story. No doubts, interpretations, exceptions, or additions: just the facts as related in the Holy Bible and the Koran, which we’re assured are inerrant, perfect, and represent Absolute Truth…
A man from the Bronze Age named Noah, and his two sons – with no boat building skills – chopped down literally hundreds of trees, and fashioned them into planks. From these, they constructed The Ark, the biggest boat ever made, and loaded it with enough quantities and varieties of food to feed every species on Earth – polar bears to mosquitoes, whales to vultures, diatoms to jellyfish – for the next seven months. The three men then went around the Earth and rounded up pairs of every living life-form and herded them aboard, into suitable environments – tanks, sheds, trees, caves – whatever they required, including temperature needs.
Then The Flood came, somehow obtaining enough water to cover the planet up to the height of Mount Everest, and the Ark floated around for 200+ days. Then the water level dropped, though one wonders where the water went, and all the living things disembarked and found their ways back home.
There’s more to the story, but that will do for now.
Can you imagine that ANYONE could actually believe this to be a true story? Well, millions of people have believed it for 2,000 years now, and still do…
Let’s grow up.