Did the bible include all creatures or just the ones theological scholars in a small area East of the Mediterranean couple of thousand years ago had heard of?

Were there two or seven breeding pairs of duck billed platypuses? Or should that be platypi? Which way would they have spelt it in the bible?

Did people come back from the dead because doctors weren't very good at diagnosing it from deep coma? Would the bible be written differently if they had done their mandatory advanced life support training? Come to think about it, would pork and shellfish be off the menu if fridges had been invented?

Why did he wait another few thousand years in order to deal with bison and carrier pigeon? Were Americans put there to finish off what Noah started?

This could run and run, so if you would be so kind as to humour me, I am in no rush, just flopped out on the settee with jet lag of sorts. Wide awake as a bloody owl all night and sleepy now.

Talking of Americans.. I reckon they have been around longer than we thought. I don't know the bible at all, but from what I gather, the climax is a bit Hollywood to say the least. Revelations can only have been written as a screenplay.

They reckon Jesus was a socialist yet did he contribute to the greater good by paying duty on the water he turned into wine? I reckon the gold and the spices he never mentioned again (probably gave them to the church raffle) hadn't had duty imposed when he got them, although as a child, the tax status is something scholars will have to debate.

I wonder how biblical people defined superstition when speaking of those weird buggers over there?

If you are still reading, have you jet lag too?