This morning I heard that a church has set the world record for
the largest ever scale LEGO model of Noah’s Ark. This is where
science and religion irreconcilably clash on details. The idea
that a “scale model” was made is what bothers me, because Noah’s
Ark was almost assuredly never actually built. -Even if all the
water vapor in the air spontaneously condensed and it all fell
in the form of rain all at the same time, while the polar ice
caps and all glaciers melted instantaneously, sending their
contents to the sea, the best we could expect would be for the
sea levels to rise a paltry 150 feet or less. That much rise
would require relocation of many hundreds of millions of humans,
but neither drive humanity to the brink of exctinction, nor
require the safeguarding of all animal species. -In order to
“flood the world” one would need basically a 29,000 foot rise in
sea level to close the seas over the tallest mountains. Even
discounting this, you’d still need at least a 5,000 foot rise to
flood all but the h