 As you know, I'm a former newspaper writer and a history teacher. For the last 20 years, as an experiment with students, as a scientific experiment, I've given them a copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh from the Babylonians and the Noah story. And the Noah story, as your guests surely know, is about 2,000 years younger than the Epic of Gilgamesh. And to a T, 100% of the students agree that