Sure you could have changed my mind, if you could have explained the story to have a physical probability of occuring.
Okay
Maybe it's not as clear cut as that. Maybe God left part of the world alone, and that's where other animals survived - but it was the whole known world to the mankind He created. Maybe there were other Noah's elsewhere, but they don't matter to the overall story, so they were not included (remember, the Bible is all you NEED to know, not all you WANT to know). Maybe when Noah gathered the animals, he only gathered eggs and sperm (thus, their "male"ness and "female"ness), and had a lab to provide the world with the first test tube babies when he was back on dry ground - and that's why it was seven pairs of some, and two pairs of others.
Saying it's impossible for someone to do is very close minded. I know it was considered impossible to have man land on the moon, and to have one guy shoot the president, and to make computers so small, and to etc., etc.
Instead, you gave me links to look up the story that I've heard my entire life and one that doesn't make logical sense at that.
Well, you keep saying "two of each". That's not what the "story you've heard your entire life" says, so I thought you should actually read it. You were unwilling - scoffing at the idea.
If nothing else, this story, along with others, is a grand dramatization of what really happened. This could be used back in those times because the people weren't any wiser...they didn't know the whole world was out there (their world was just what they knew). It has to be accepted today though that the stories of past don't make logical sense with today's knowledge
What if our knowledge isn't complete? LIke, how did they build the pyramids, Easter Island statues, etc., etc., etc.
We're not as smart as it seems, friend.
(along with the many other fictional/dramatized stories in the book)
