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It was recently revealed that the visitors center at the Grand Canyon National Park has been forbidden to sell a book on the geology of the park because the book maintains the canyon was created by natural forces over millions of years. That book on basic scientific knowledge seemed to ruffle the feathers of the simplistic adorers of President George W. Bush who claim the canyon was created by the famous flood that engulfed the entire world and which only Noah, his wife, their three sons and their wives survived, as did some well-chosen animals. That tale ~ the creationist history of the Grand Canyon which is on sale in national park shops instead ~ is told in the Bible that the Bushies and their supporters think is a literal record of history.

They are fools, because the Bible tells us ~ who are able to read and reason within a reasonable time span between each discipline ~ that the flood never happened, there was no man named Noah who floated atop the waters that covered the entire earth and had to be nearly 30,000 feet above present-day sea level just to cover the highest mountains. And to know what the Bible tells us requires that we read, reason and pick up on all the clues that point to a fable, an allegory, a myth, a parable, an abstract, a meme, folklore or whatever terminology one uses to separate fact from fiction, belief from reality.

All primitive societies used story to keep and maintain their knowledge, understanding and history of themselves because they had no printing presses or computer discs on which to record such knowledge and understanding. And they usually attributed extraordinary events to their gods or to a god. Often animals were responsible for such events. Ancient Hebrews wrote down these stories, which early Jews collected and put into a book they call the Torah and Christians expanded on to create the Holy Bible.

It's with this understanding that we begin to understand the story of Noah and the flood he survived. We know from the biblical story that Noah was warned of a flood that the Jewish God was about to bring about to wipe out human life on earth because he was displeased that human activity wasn't pious enough to suit him. Never mind that such a catastrophe would kill innocent children and the unborn that the Bushies are so determined to save today. And it would kill off millions of innocent animals which were never intended to be pious or created to worship God. Never mind that the flood would create a "culture of death" not the "culture of life" the Bushies propose; outside of unnecessary war, capital punishment and social Darwinism, that is, and that the story depicts God as a mass murderer.

From the Bible we know that Noah, his family and the animals they saved went aboard the ark on the 17th day of the second month of Noah's 600th year. We also are told that after the flood water receded, they got off the boat on the 27th day of the second month of Noah's 601st year. To those who insist the Bible be read literally, that means they were on board one year, 10 days.

The first clue that the story is myth has to be the question, "What did they eat?" In Eden, Adam and Eve were allowed to eat from any tree in the garden, save one, (but that's a story for another time) and after they ate and opened their eyes (i.e. the advent of self-awareness) just before leaving Eden they were also allowed to eat "herb of the field" (i.e. coming down from the trees to be land-based creatures). That means that Noah and his family were vegetarians. But the earth was completely covered with water; there were no trees to give fruit, no bushes to yield berries and no potato patches to provide food. There also was no refrigeration on the ark. Humans weren't given permission from God to eat flesh until after Noah's clan left the ark.

It could be argued facetiously that some of the animals existed for more than a year because they could eat flesh that mankind couldn't. That would explain the absence of unicorns, fire-breathing dragons and dinosaurs today. They were eaten by the likes of crocodiles, lions, bears and tigers. Why they didn't eat Noah and his family is a mystery. But not all animals are carnivores. Beasts such as horses, cattle, giraffes are also vegetarians so they also wouldn't have had food for more than a year. This tells us that the Noah story is myth; because myth doesn't bother itself with such minor details as plausibility.

People who claim the event is historically true and communicate daily with God in a personal one-on-one relationship have never told us how all those vegetarians survived. If they truly are God's servants and confidants, he might have clued in a couple of them.

So, it's the meaning of the story that is true; not a history that is false. This story tells us that when times are good and life presents no problems, the leader (Noah); whether father, chief, mayor, governor, president or king must make preparations and plans to serve his people when calamity (the flood) strikes. When proper procedures are made, the people find sanctuary and can safely ride out the bad times, no matter how severe. Taking of the animals (one male and one female) aboard tells us that mankind has an obligation to protect and preserve the inferior animals of the planet and prevent their extinction because they cannot survive on their own during this calamity. We are biblically instructed by this story to care for and protect each other and to be the environmentalists and conservationists that Bushies and their obedient followers detest. Many persons with strong aversions to religious superstitions often reject biblical stories such as this because the tales have been abducted by religion, thereby missing the lessons intended.

Here is a national problem: those who claim the Bible must be read literally because it is God's inerrant word, but can't understand the allegorical nature of the Noah's flood, have been rejoicing over the war against Iraq and are calling for more war ~ specifically against Iran ~ because they think that such wars in the Mideast are a prelude to the Apocalypse and their ascent by the Rapture into a new paradise. They are wrong, and are the embodiment of the false prophets the Bible warns against. They are followers of the Antichrist (not a real person but a distorted version of the true Christ) because the Apocalypse and battle at Armageddon are just as allegorical as the Great Flood narrative. And there will be no Rapture. These people are dangerous.

It is sad that the Bushies and their fundamentalist toadies would use religion to destroy the lessons of biblical stories and suppress scientific fact in favor of a myth they don't understand. But they do.


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***************************************************** Thomas Bonsell is a former newspaper editor (in Oregon, New York and Colorado) United States Air Force cryptanalyst and National Security Agency intelligence agent. He became one of (more...)
 
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