(August 20, 2015 at 4:12 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Regarding Noah's flood and the ark story: It's pure BS since the Middle East was never flooded as described.
Regarding animals on ancient boats: It happened all of the time during the Roman period. Remember Hannibal? He moved elephants from Africa to Italy by boats. And the Romans had constant streams of assorted African animals coming into Italy by ship on regular schedules for the arenas. People in Pompeii ate giraffes. Think about where giraffes are found in Africa and the system used to move them to Italy.
You know that the book of Genesis is older than Hannibal right. Do you have documentation of where the flood story was added to the text?