It took much longer, but "day" is subject to interpretation. And we all know that "revelation" is not a voice booming from "heaven" but urges, drives, callings.

Now, what if -

God said, using present-day nomenclature, for instance "NASA" instead of "NOAH" -

NASA, BUILD ME AN ARK!

"I don't know how to build an ark. How do you expect me to build an ark?"

NASA, I EXPECT YOU TO LEARN TO BUILD AN ARK. YOU WILL FIRST BUILD A SMALL BOAT, TETHERED BY GRAVITY TO YOUR SHORES. AND THEN A BIGGER BOAT, TETHERED BY GRAVITY TO YOUR SHORES. AND THEN ANOTHER BOAT WHICH IS FREE TO ROAM TO ANOTHER SHORE, BUT TETHERED BY GRAVITY TO YOUR SUN.

"Yeah, but why?"

YOU WILL LEARN TO BUILD A VERY LARGE ARK, NOT TETHERED TO YOUR SOLAR SYSTEM, FREE TO WANDER THE UNIVERSE.

"Yeah, but why? I don't know how? How long do I have., This isn't easy, you know. Or maybe you don't."

YOU HAVE AS LONG AS IT TAKES. A SECOND TO ME IS 8 GENERATIONS TO YOU. I AM GOING TO CAUSE A FLOOD, I AM GOING TO INUNDATE YOUR PLANET WITH CARBON DIOXIDE, RENDERING EARTH UNINHABITABLE.

"Yipes! What am I going to do with an uninhabitable Earth. That sounds grim, you know."

YOU WILL LOAD EIGHT OF EACH TYPE OF ZYGOTE ON BOARD THE ARK WHICH WILL TRAVEL UNTIL I SIGNAL IT TO LAND."

"Boy, how is that going to work? How will I keep the zygotes? What's the signal?"

YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW. THAT WILL BE DEVELOPED IN A COUPLE OF GENERATIONS. RIGHT NOW, I WANT THAT SMALL BOAT TETHERED TO YOUR EARTH FINISHED. YOU ARE DOING A GOOD JOB SO FAR. KEEP IT UP.

And so NASA, along with it's brothers and sisters, starts down a familiar road.

Arf (This is such an obvious parallel, Bow, it has to have been done before. I'm sure, but it was fun driving down the road thinking about it.)