RE: Noah
August 16, 2013 at 4:57 am
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2013 at 4:58 am by Cyberman.)
Noah's Ark? Again? What are we, five years old or something?
I apologise, that was rather rude of me. However, I hope I've illustrated the level of scorn most of us feel about stories like this.
What fascinates me though with this sort of rationalisation exercises, is the sheer amount of ad hoc elements used to shore up an increasingly unwieldy explanation and try to make the story fit the naturalistic world; ultimately rendered pointless anyway, because the very instant you have to resort to magic to get you out of a tight corner, all naturalistic explanations go flying out of the window. You'd be far better off going for the 'magic' option right from the start and treating the story as magical throughout. Like a fairytale, in fact.
I apologise, that was rather rude of me. However, I hope I've illustrated the level of scorn most of us feel about stories like this.
What fascinates me though with this sort of rationalisation exercises, is the sheer amount of ad hoc elements used to shore up an increasingly unwieldy explanation and try to make the story fit the naturalistic world; ultimately rendered pointless anyway, because the very instant you have to resort to magic to get you out of a tight corner, all naturalistic explanations go flying out of the window. You'd be far better off going for the 'magic' option right from the start and treating the story as magical throughout. Like a fairytale, in fact.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
