That Noah’s Ark reconstruction in Kentucky is truly amazing (“Noah’s Ark of biblical proportions opens,” July 9, The Columbian). What fun it would be to visit, even though I do not accept the literal interpretation of Genesis, or that dinosaurs and humans coexisted on an earth barely more than 6,000 years old.
This new ark, the story says, is “based on the tale of a man who got an end-of-the-world message from God about a massive flood,” not to mention 40 days and nights of continuous rain — surely a catastrophic climate event if ever there was one.
Could it be that rising global temperatures, melting polar ice, receding coastlines and glaciers, and increasingly violent weather patterns are another end-of-the-world (as we know it) threat? And that climate scientists all over the earth are our messengers?
Maybe, like Noah, we should open our eyes, ears, and minds, and heed the warning.
