Now aged 86, he’s perhaps best known for starting what turned out to be the first L’Arche community in France in 1964 when he welcomed two disabled men into a small house he’d bought for this purpose.
Although the biblical story of Noah's Ark is the best known, numerous cultures all around the globe and throughout history have developed their own versions of the flood myth.
You're probably familiar with the story of the flood from the Bible, featuring Noah and the Ark, but it turns out that a lot of cultures have flood myths.
Without ever noticing, the plants and animals of this huge Noah's Ark drifted out towards an entirely new destination, on the great ocean of evolution.