Episode 8: Ravioli’s Session
We’re in the office of Professor Faggioli, the official psychologist of NASAL.
Ravioli is about to start the evaluation.
Faggioli: Very well, Ravioli. Make yourself comfortable.
Faggioli rummages through a desk drawer and pulls out a sheet of paper.
Faggioli: Here’s your file. Before we begin the test, we’ll conduct a psychological evaluation. Please answer sincerely so that I can help you lose your job… I mean… pass the test.
Ravioli: My job depends on this test. You can count on my honesty!
Faggioli: I know, I know! Don’t worry, Ravioli. I’m your friend, and together, we’ll manage to get you fired… Uh, I mean… keep you here at NASAL!
Ravioli: Thank you, Professor. I’ll do my best!
Faggioli: By the way, just sign here in the register, please.
Faggioli hands Ravioli a pen and gestures for him to sign the register.
Faggioli: Me? Friends with this idiot? Oh, please… I can’t wait to gather all the info I need to get him fired! Oh, sorry, Ravioli, I was thinking out loud…
Ravioli: Professor, how do you open this pen?
Faggioli: Here you go… idiot!
Ravioli: Professor, were you saying something?
Faggioli: Oh, yes! I was saying: you’ll see, everything will go fine, Ravioli.
Meanwhile, the other three, back from the infirmary, enter the waiting room with tears in their eyes, thanks to the extra-large swabs they were just forced to endure.
Banani: Ah, Papaia! When will you stop being so absent-minded? Look where we’ve ended up this time!
Papaia: Eh, eh… Sorry!
Banani: Hey, Papaia! I was organizing the garage, you know, one of those projects I’ve been postponing for years. Guess what happened!
Papaia: I don’t know… Did you find something?
Banani: Exactly! I was moving things around and found an old box. And inside, guess what was there?
Papaia: Let me guess… A book!
Banani: How did you know?
Papaia: I don’t know, something told me we’d get to this point…
Banani: Well, anyway, I found an old book of my grandfather’s and started reading it… and it’s fascinating!
Papaia: What’s it about? A botany manual?
Banani: Well, I must admit botany is incredibly interesting. But the book I found is about something completely different. It’s about a catastrophic historical event: the global flood!
Papaia: The flood? You mean the one from the Bible?
Banani: Exactly that one!
Papaia: Yeah, Banani, but that’s just a legend, not a historical event.
Banani: That’s what I thought too before reading this book…
Papaia: Oh, really? And what made you change your mind?
Banani: You see, Papaia, the author claims that the flood really happened, and the evidence is right before our eyes!
Papaia: Really? How’s that possible? Where’s this evidence?
Banani: The evidence is found in rock layers and fossils.
Papaia: But don’t those things prove the Earth is billions of years old?
Banani: Well, it depends on how you interpret them.
Papaia: Geology has always interpreted rock layers as the result of slow erosion and sediment deposition. I don’t see how else we could interpret these things.
Banani: There is another interpretation! The author shows that most of the geological formations we see today can be explained by a global catastrophe: the flood!
Papaia: An interesting perspective I’ve never heard of before.
Banani: I was amazed too. Not only does the flood perfectly explain the arrangement of fossils and rock layers, but it also addresses many things that secular geology considers mysteries.
Papaia: So the causes of formations like the Grand Canyon are due to the flood and not millions of years of slow, continuous processes?
Banani: Exactly! Secular geology interprets the rock layers we see everywhere as the result of millions of years of erosion and sedimentation. But the flood, according to the book, explains everything just as well through the massive movements of material caused by the catastrophe.
Papaia: Fascinating! So these mysteries, for the author, are evidence supporting the flood theory?
Banani: Exactly! This book cites evidence like marine fossils found on high mountains, mass fossil graves of all kinds of animals worldwide, and even certain sediments that formed too quickly to be explained by ‘millions of years.’ It’s all written here, page after page!
Papaia: Hmm… Marine fossils on mountains, fossil graves, and rock layers, you say? Banani, I think we’ll have to take a look at that book!
Igor: Oh, yes! The book is fascinating. We have evidence of the flood right under our noses, but we interpret it incorrectly. Let me think… This reminds me of something… Ah! Yes, here it is! It’s just like when Papaia interpreted an important text message on his phone as useless spam. So instead of worrying about something under his nose, he ended up dealing with something he got… inside his nose! The infamous… extra-large swab!