I found this below in the comments section of the ark story in the Daily Mail =
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Nickolas, Ontario, Canada, 10 years ago
Fundamental belief systems are comfortable allowing anomolies. In this case, God could do anything He wanted, so a regional, 4km deep Great Flood could be possible, because it is what He wanted. To the commentators above: no matter what you might say about the physical, scientific impossibility of the existence of Noah's Ark, no matter how logical and measurable it might be, what you say will be by some rejected, with facility. Faith is absolute in the fundamentalist mind. It must be this way. There is no room for questioning a fundamental belief, for the very act of questioning is in itself a betrayal of Faith in God. When you believe, you believe completely and anything anyone says to you that impugns or otherwise diminishes that belief is just plain wrong. If only people could just think things out a little more, we could get all this nonsense behind us and really start to evolve intellectually as a species
My mother was an English literature teacher. While you guys were playing sandlot baseball, I had to watch "The Tempest" on the Hallmark Hall of Fame, read the abridged version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (I particularly liked The Pardoner's Tale)and was introduced at a young age to Ayn Rand via Atlas Shrugged. The rest of my "formal education" has been self-taught. "Education is your life long personal responsibility." - Mom...who red-penciled corrections on every note I ever wrote.
"Atlas Shrugged," was the best novel I read at age seventeen.
At age 39+ it was one of the worst. A nut case... If Ryan was running things 90% of us would be dead.