re: #488 Obdicut

I think of Noah’s ark as a badly thought out metaphor for natural selection. After all, Noah, didn’t just bring pairs of animals on board, but whole groups of them. The whole story is just about the natural bottlenecking that occurred in animal populations during the last glacial period.

The ark is the Earth, man!

That makes quite a bit of sense, actually. I have a theory myself about the expulsion from Eden reflecting the coming of the Ice Age.

Ludwig’s not buying it.