You were saying — “The absence of an ark on Ararat would not disprove anything.”
Well, that particular point never was fully understood by the Soviets, when they got into space. I recall one of the cosmonauts saying that he could see no God, now that they had arrived up there, in space... LOL...
Regards,
Star Traveler
The Bible does not say that the Ark will remain on Ararat forever, that Noah's descendents wouldn't use it for firewood or as a house, that the elements wouldn't remove it from existence. To someone who believes this story, it happened 5000 years ago, and we can't even find Viking boats from 900 years ago, let alone something supposedly that old.
Find an Ark up there in pristine condition, and you would have something to argue about. Find nothing, and you have proven nothing,except that nothing remains of the Ark, just as nothing remains of innumerable physical items mentioned in the Bible.