Given that the serpent got a pretty bad rap in Eden, is it not surprising that a pair got included in the Ark? (Well, they're around today...)

Just say it is inspired by a true story, it works for made for tv movies

Honestly I always thought that there is a tiny degree of truth to that one. Floods do happen in that part of the world.

The flood myth is actually a universal myth. Every culture in the world has the same story. A pius man is warned of an impending flood. He climbs a tree, a mountain, a blade of grass. He builds an boat, digs a canoe, or in some instances, the mountain floats. In some stories he takes his sister.
I am going to refer you to two books.

The first book is about ingenious tribes having great memories. "The Memory Code" by Lynne Kelly.
The second book is "Magicians of the Gods" by Graham Hancock.
And please read the memory code first before you read Graham Hancock. A lot of people are under the delusional belief that our ancestors were stupid.

I am a Naval Architect who spent close to 30 years designing and constructing the largest moving machines on Earth -- ships and associated vehicles. I ran a design study on the "Ark" many years ago and found that, in terms of section modulus, a wooden ship of such dimensions could be built with adequate longitudinal strength, but that it would fail immediately in practice.

As for Ken Ham's Ark Encounter, it would be impossible for it to be historically accurate for a number of different reasons. I won't spell them all out here, but if you're interested feel free to ask. Number one on the list is that there is no history to support the need for the Ark in the first place. Second most important item is that his little ship is not a ship and would not float under any circumstances. The whole list is too large. Just think logistics, size and expertise of work force, availability of materials, etc.

This article from the National Center for Science Education might be of some interest:

[ncse.com]

Was your response somewhere along the line of; "Baaaahahahahahaaaa! You can't be serious! Baaaahahahaha! Ohshitican'tbreath!".... because that might have been my reaction, but I'm pretty shy, so yours may have differed significantly.

What amazes me is that the Christians who are so worried about abortion, never say a word about the god drowning all the children, babies and parents in the world without blinking an eye. Oh what a loving god, huh!

This story always bothered me. How could millions of animals fit on a boat half the size of the titanic? Can you imagine how much food would be needed? All the shit that would be produced? Not to mention how far these animals would have traveled? Just ridiculous to think that people really believe this story. Ken Hams Ark failed and lost money because of Atheist. He's words, lol.

I love asking believers to explain why there is no fossil trail to the various continents. It would have taken a long time to cross the world. Also, we would have discovered the center of that migration and would have any remains of the ark. Same with us. We would all be related to Noah and his family, and our DNA would reflect that.

It's not even an original story ,the same story of an ark with flood and even a dove, was written about 1500 years before in neaby Sumer ,now modern Iraq. So ask them to check that out too.

[en.wikipedia.org]

I'm still utterly baffled by how Ken Ham(ster) was able to bamboozle the state of Kentucky into spending millions of dollars on a privately owned religious attraction.

Didn't that ark cost $100,000,000 and 100s of craftsmen with state of the art tools worked on it and it would never float anyway? But Noah did it with an old axe and few nails in no time at all. But what gets me what did Noah do with all the animal shit? From what I can gather Christians are still shovelling it.

Can you spot the issue in this picture?
Amazing that they were able to breed two males. Nature finds a way.

My favorite depiction of the Ark was in Disney's Fantasia 2000.

This is one of those things that I could never swallow, even as a kid. Not that anyone ever tried (because I never asked) but no one could have ever convinced me that all the animals in the world could fit on and survive in one boat. I always knew it was a furry tail.

Interestingly enough while the whole Ark thing has enough holes in it to be a barbwire canoe, the appearance of the flood theme may go back to the time when the Bosphorus split c. 5600 BC according to some theories and the Black Sea filled.

[arkencounter.com]

over 200 flood myths in ciivilization

Which of the people let the ringworm infect them? The public lice? The scabies? If there's no evolution and he killed everything that wasn't on the ark, all the awful shit we have today was in at least one of them...

These fairy tales as I call them often help people in establishing temporary explanations or reasoning behind questions or burdens they are experiencing in life..like a coping mechanism that gives you a possible answer..even though temporary like a band aid

Sometimes a seed is all you need. A seed can shift a perspective just enough to allow questions.

I was a young earth creationist, fundamentalist, wacko. I was indoctrinated from birth. Now the biggest problem I would have have been trying to have a conversation without my brain exploding all over their shirt. I am good about being conversational and provoking thought, but the internal monologue would have even offended me.