I had a minister once tell me that a fundamentalist reads the bible like a cook book and that’s a shame. Some of the Bible really is meant to be a parable and a teaching tool. It’s sad that there are some that thing you have to swallow unscientific nonsense in order to believe.
This creationist/Noah’s Ark thing makes me think of Galileo and that people couldn’t accept that the universe did NOT center on the Earth.To them, if you didn’t believe in that universe, you couldn’t believe in Jesus.
Why make so many extra rules on something meant to be so simple?
EDIT: I meant to make a point that in Jewish tradition, storytelling was a very common way to teach people important lessons. Jesus himself used storytelling. When he told the story about the old woman with 12 coins, did he really have to know a woman who had 12 coins? Was he lying when he told the story if he didn’t actually know this woman? No!