The Narrative of Creation

The ark is a fascinating story, but is it just a story? There are recent discoveries of a site near where the Noah's ark rest through satellite photos. It appears on the mountain called Ararat near Turkey and Russian border a rough skeleton of a large wooden vessel. Is it really the ark mentioned in the bible? To me the story in Genesis can possibly appear in two levels, a historical level, where a large flood did happened, which had indeed been recorded in various ancient texts. Another is a symbolic level of a cleansing of the earth by a great flood, all of creation was destroyed except what the bible mentioned as pure. In a way something was put apart from everything-else to be preserved later on for rebirth. When I keep thinking about how the wood vessel, even though it was carefully measured and constructed can contain all of the world's many animal species, I have always thought it was just a symbolic act, not feasible in reality. Yet when the digital technology of containing vast information can be stored in hard drives and computers alike, I begin to fathom that indeed it is possible to store the data of many living species in the ark and later being regenerated by technological or magical means. After all God is suppose to be omnipotent, what is impossible? But the fascinating idea of storing certain information apart from the rest of the vast world of info keeps coming back to me. What is worth storing and what is to be thrown away. Only the separation of good and evil? In the bible there is not only the concept of good and evil but of holy. The idea of holy is being apart, just different from the remains of the herd. In creation or creative endeavor, there is always the sense that something made that is good and then there is the exceptionally excellent, that we as artists rest our hearts on. I suppose this is what separates the holy from the good, it is in a way absolutely unique and never been replicated or possible to replicate. One and only, singularly excellent, representing the best of the best, no equal, the chosen, rightfully elected.