Nah, no one was subjected to torturous pain in the story (well maybe the lamb that got sacrificed in the kids stead). My point was that there was no one to be like "wait no, stop, don't actually hurt anyone" in the scientists case, and way more people resulted injured.

How is it exactly the same? (If you're gonna say "because it's imaginary and it never happened, and therefore god couldn't speak to anyone to say that because God doesn't real", please remember we're talking about this referring to it as a STORY.)