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# There's more dangerous stuff in the Midrash,
apparently he had to take on board Sirens as well, and various sorts of demons. Which sounds like fun.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:26, archived)
# Wot about the dinosaurs?
Oh no, they were killed by the flood and instantly fossilised by the sedimentation on its retreat. Sorry.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:43, archived)
# I don't know if the Midrash mentions dinosaurs,
in theory they should have been taken on board as well though if they were still around. Which they weren't, obviously.

There's an interesting mention of the reason why apes resemble humans so much, apparently Adam and Eve were far more spectacular creatures to begin with, and were some 200m tall as well—it's only because of the Fall that they came to resemble the beasts.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:47, archived)
# Does it take into account the Nephillim?
You know, the "giants" who were the product of angels fucking human women, which were supposedly wiped out in the flood...then turn up again a few books later anyway...
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:49, archived)
# I believe this is something to do with Og of Bashan,
I don't remember off the top of my head.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 16:51, archived)
# According to the Baptists
these and all the other bad guys were utterly destroyed by God during the flood, rather than just drowned, hence the lack of humanoid remains in strata contemporary with all the fossils of extinct beasts.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:00, archived)
# Yet they make a comeback in Numbers 13:33
which is set after the flood...
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:24, archived)
# I like your use of the word "set"
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:27, archived)
# it appears to mean "Fallen Ones,"
there are various early writings about what they actually were, "offspring of angels and humans" being one theory, the other that they were entirely human and that "sons of God" oughtn't be taken literally. The Roman Catholic Church maintains the latter view, I think.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:31, archived)
# Well if "son of God" is a generic, non-literal term
what's all the fuss about this Jesus fella?
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:34, archived)
# exactly!
well it does mean something special, in Judaism, it means "a righteous person".
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 17:37, archived)