Noah’s Ark, alias Atrahasis and the Flood – a fictional story created four thousand years ago by the Sumerians.

Science is rational, permanent and constantly proved all the time. Faith, based on fiction and wishful thinking, is not – faith-based stories are emotional, short-term and disposable. Here’s an example:

If you take all the ancient religious scriptures, burn them and wipe them off the face of the earth, and destroy the memories of all fictional stories and legends contained in them, these myths will be gone in their current form. Some will re-appear in time, but they will be different, because they will be written by different people living in different environments and circumstances.

However, if you take all the science books and scientific facts, burn them and wipe out the understanding of all natural laws, mathematical formulae and scientific observations, nothing will disappear or be destroyed – all the laws, facts and observations will still be the same.

Why? – Because science is real and forever, and fictional stories are circumstantial and time-related. Not the Torah, the Bible, or the Koran is built on science – they are all built on fiction, stories invented by people searching for answers. Many of the metaphors in all three of these ancient books are not even ingenious but borrowed and adapted from older pagan religious scriptures, legends and myths.

Bruwer Swanepoel

“What can be asserted without evidence can also be rejected without evidence”

Christopher Hitchens