These secularist people just don't get this supernatural stuff like a god who made the lion sending angels to shut the lion's mouths, people surviving in firey furnaces, Lazarus walking out of a grave, after having already having begun to stink, animals, by instinct heading out with one thing in mind -- to get in an ark, talking serpents,
Guys being chained to a rock and eagles munching on their liver every day, Coyote stealing the Frog Women's vaginas for his own use without harming the frogs, men being turned to stone by seeing snaky-tressed goddesses, bodies of giants being turned into the earth we live on, invisible pink unicorns sneezing the universe into existence last Thursday afternoon, ......
I "get it," I just don't put much more literal credence in my examples of myth than in yours, Buz.