My reaction when I first heard the story of Noah's Ark

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In my "idealized" story, Noah goes into the Ark alone, so that he can have freedom to do whatever he wants in the post-apocalypse world. So that's where the fallacy comes in.

I tend to be obsessed with anything to do with the weather, even way back then. So when I first heard the story of Noah's Ark my little ears pricked up with interest and had awakened me out of my usual day dreaming fantasy state which was usually the case when the religious instruction teacher was just talking about of load of that "boring stuff" about Jesus, Moses etc. But anything to do with the weather, wow! now you have got my attention. Even if I discover later through my advanced knowledge in meteorology that such an event like the Noah's Ark flood would be impossible.

Paul

I'm trying to remember how I first heard the story:

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away.... (My infancy!)

I could easily have come across it as a wooden toy before hearing the bible account as such. I had one at a very early age made by my grandfather.

Certainly hearing it as a story it was "a story", at an age where stories were undifferentiated. Robin Hood was a story, Noah was a story, Snow White was a story.

Realising that some stories were true and some were not was a later development, as was the idea (still not fully resolved) of differeng concepts of true (and myth, come to that!).

And that some told as true might not be, and that some myths and tales have elements of history wrapped up in them. "A-tissue A-tissue, we all fall down!"

"Where were the dinosaurs?" was a question for later childhood.
Along with those about vegetarian lions etc.

Ah but is it?
Some interpretations take it that none of the stories actually happened, they're just metaphors. Dragons and faeries? Could be metaphors or genuine mistakes that someone thought "Hey, let's make a story out of it'. Over time, these stories became myths and legends.