These famous bible stories have been translated in many languages and have had many adaptations for children, adults, teen and a varied audience.
Both of these stories relate to modern society's ideals and beliefs, one story deals with the creation of man and where the whole human species started, where Adam and Eve had children, and their children had children, and so on they multiplied.
The other story also relates to modern society because god speaks to Moses and warns him of the flood that is coming, he tells him he must build an ark with two of every animal (male and female) in order to reproduce.
The basic message of these stories isn't too hard to grasp, in Adam and Eve the message is: Everything has consequences, and Obey and do what your told. we can sense that Adam and Eve realize what they have done when Lord God calls out to Adam: "Where art thou?", Adam comes out from his hiding place and responds "I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself." That is when god realizes and starts to blame Adam, where he blames Eve, and Eve blames the serpent. We can see the very common "blame-game" which is used by many children now a days, Adam and Eve both used these to be guilt-free.
Noah's ark seem very irrational to me, that god such a powerful and wise being has to erase the mankind to start all over again. I think that such a powerful being, someone we look up to should have had an alternative to fix or change mankind, if you will. I think this translation was much more complicated than the kids version, although the classical version is much more wordy, it's a much better version. as god said: "come thou and thy house into the ark."
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