It's raining again. In the Bible when it rained like this, it was to wash away the sinful world that man had created and make a new start. Noah was instructed to build an ark, and gather two of each animal so that there might be a new world created when the flood waters had subsided. Logistically, to gather two of everything, would have taken a lifetime, considering there are species as yet undiscovered by us. Also, the ark would have had to be the size of a city to house these creatures.

So we've got one very old man, without the aid of intercontinental flight, or even train, finding two of every living thing, and in between trying to get enough wood together to build a floating vessel the size of a city. Then there was the building bit. It takes me all day to put three shelves up, so this wouldn't have been a weekend job. Then, the forgiving god that Christians worship, flooded the world and drowned every human that he had created, in his own image, (and every other land-based creature) so that he might "have another go". And Noah set sail on the flooded earth and when the water subsided, Noah set free the creatures from the shit-filled ark into the land of decomposing humans and all manner of other creatures. And as the animals that he had released set about their task of repopulating the earth, rutting amidst the stench of death, Noah turned to his wife and daughter. Because it was time to rebuild the human race, too. And his wife was old. But his daughter, she was of legal age and a virgin and she had very pretty eyes... Let's just hope that there's not an ark being built somewhere right now. The destruction of an entire planet at the whim of a hypocritical god, I can deal with. But incest is just going too far...