Noah's Ark

What if the story of Noah wasn't about a tale from the past but a premonition about the future?

It's a story that's been told before except with names like Gilgamesh instead of Noah, and maybe in countless generations before.

We can't know for certain that we were created and put on this planet.  Maybe we were from another planet and we took that story from our ancestors but we lost the technology.  The story of putting life on a giant space ship and taking it to another planet. 

Maybe the flood is a warning about filling up your planet with any type of destruction.  Could be global warming, asteroid, etc.  When the story was told in the past, a flood was probably the simplest way to understand it.

(At some point we're going to reach our population cap.  The higher our population limit is, the lower the variation of species.)

We need to get as many different animals as we can in a space ship and fly them to another planet.  Two by two.  Which ones would we choose?

I've been thinking of this science fiction story where that is the overall goal.

Based off this dream I had, it's about a horse trainer in a new future where cars are banned and the horse industry takes off.  In the dream, the horses were becoming harder and harder to break.  The plot I've been thinking about is a metaphor to the animals that "magically listened" in the story of Noah's ark.  When the world starts actually building this space ship, the animals start working together, like all of life wants this goal.

How could we build a space ship that could contain as much life as possible?

Where would we go?

One dilemma I was thinking of is where people on the planet don't want to build it because the process would cause too many greenhouse gases.

I think it's an interesting conflict.

How do we really know that solving this problem isn't a quest from God?

If one ever did exist

Maybe there were multiple "Gods", maybe when these stories were told they were referring to the "people from the past".

It makes me think about how the technology of the past could have been lost.  Like, if there was a space ship that had the capability to keep on going, maybe our "creators" left to discover new lands.

As a plot development idea, when we discover a new planet, we have a scene where they're picking and choosing what plants/animals will go where, and about making a paradise for the people.

One giant plot twist could be that we discover our former selves (where their space ship ended up)

Our future selves are more like robots.  In the story they could be at times an antagonist, at times a warning about our future and maybe in the end, a helper.