When the flood waters come on the earth, we have gone back to the state before creation began in some ways, with the exception of this life boat with Noah and his family and the animals on board. All that is left of life is floating on what on dry land would have seemed an enormous boat but on the face of the waters that covered the earth would have seemed remarkably small and inconsequential.
Movies like Omega Man and I Am Legend explore something of what it would be like to be alone on earth, but they always find others and others find them, for good or ill. Apocalyptic movies such as that all understand that ultimately it is man's propensity to violence, rapacious greed and dominance that lead to destruction. There is a certain plausibility structure in them that cuts across the political ideas of conservative/liberal. Inside us we know that ultimately we as a race or species are capable of incredible stupidity such as would be sufficient to bring about an apocalyptic ending of most life as we know it. Isn't that what Genesis 6 says happened? The only difference is that God brings about an ending rather than mankind.
Over my lifetime we have lost not the story but the cohering principle of the story. We don't doubt that ultimately we will blow it and there will be a need to start over again if possible, but we have written God as creator and judge out of the story. Our hope is in humanity, a better bunch of people, who will "get it" and survive the end and build a new society which is based on the right principles. Why do we hope in humanity when we have ample evidence that from the beginning of recorded history, whether biblical or otherwise, that we can't sustain peace among each other?
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