God: Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?
Rita: The way things are going, if he gets any crazier, we might end up in the White House.
Evan Baxter: Do I know you?
God: Not as much as I'd like.
Joan Baxter: Honey, maybe God didn't mean a literal flood. Maybe he meant a flood of knowledge, or emotion, or awareness.
Evan Baxter: If that's true, I am going to be so pissed.
God: I now issue a new commandment: Thou shalt do the dance.
Answer: God wanted to see what he wanted them to see, to believe in something you can't believe requires faith.