Genesis 9

Genesis 9
[1] And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
[2] And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
[3] Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
[4] But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
[5] And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
[6] Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
[7] And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
[8] And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
[9] And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
[10] And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
[11] And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
[12] And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
[13] I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
[14] And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
[15] And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
[16] And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
[17] And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
[18] And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
[19] These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
[20] And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
[21] And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
[22] And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
[23] And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
[24] And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
[25] And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
[26] And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
[27] God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
[28] And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
[29] And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
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Noah and his sons (the wives didn't matter) receive the command to re-populate the planet. According to a literal translation of the Bible, every person on the planet descends from Noah's family. The human genome project does not concur.

God encourages the eating of meat at a time when animals good for food need to replenish their numbers. Never mind the predator-prey relationships that would have made herding animals extinct, followed by their predators. Ken Ham tells us that the predators were scavengers after the flood, consuming the corpses left behind by the flood, but as was pointed out in a previous post, any bodies would have skeletonized well before a year.
There's some nonsense about shedding blood at the hands of men and beasts, but then we get into the real craziness: God gives a speech about how he's never going to flood the Earth again, then talks about putting his bow in the sky. This story is a rather fantastical and farcical way of explaining rainbows. Obviously, the author of Genesis knew nothing about light refraction. The only explanation an apologist might try in this case would be to offer that light refraction didn't exist until that time, which is not only absurd, but also unsupported by any evidence--and contradicted by other evidence, such as the evolution of the eye and nervous system to correct for light refraction.

Finally, we get to this story about how Noah's youngest son gets punished for seeing his father passed out from being drunk. There is no explanation regarding why this is such a grievous sin, the son and his descendants are condemned to being the servants of the descendants of the older brothers.
In summary, the story of Noah is full of holes. It is inconsistent with reality, and ultimately, unnecessary, given that it turned out to be futile. We have also learned that Old Testament punishments are unnecessarily harsh and, inexplicably, inheritable.