RE: Why build an Ark?
March 21, 2023 at 4:48 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2023 at 5:18 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 21, 2023 at 4:29 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: -bringing us right back round to the central conundrum in such an explanation. Even yokels knew better.
The details of the flood do not matter, and never have.
yokels don’t care to know better. which means they are as readily and uncritically susceptible to the con as they are to any vigorous critiques of the con. So the details of the flood may not immediately and directly matter to individual yokels, but it would matter to those who might be moved to critique the flood story through its details, and that in the long run has potential to reverse the beliefs of the yokels and this could threaten to overthrow the whole con.
People who has a feel for the audience would know they need to play to the part of the audience that might critique but can be dissuaded, as much as they need to play the uncritical yokelish part. This does not take a clairvoyant genius of deception. any moderate public speaking talent will do.
