[calex59]

Ok, let's assume that the flood happened, Noah built an ark and it came to rest on the famed Mt. Ararat. This happened way before Christ was born, many thousands of years ago. It is rare to find boats that we know for a fact were there. Viking boats, boats around the various body of waters in the middle east, in time periods a lot shorter than the one concerning the Ark. In all the thousands of those boats very, very few survived to this day. The Ark was only one boat and it rotted away a long time ago.

What makes any one with any knowledge of wood at all think there is any trace of the ark left after all this time? Let's say some bits and pieces are still there, a few pegs(no nails)and some wood bits, maybe petrified, how will they determine these scraps belonged to the Ark?

My scenario for the Ark? 150 years after the flood some poor farmer was searching for firewood and came upon the remains of a boat where one shouldn't be, not being familiar with the story of the flood, he cut it up and took it home and used it to cook meals and heat his hut. Lasted him for 3 or 4 winters.

Hey, my version of what happened to it is just as plausible as thinking anything is left of it after all this time!

[Sacajaweau]

I'm more inclined to think that the story of an Ark on Mt. Ararat is like ther Statute of Liberty in NY Harbour....something you just gotta see if you get there.

Like the Turin thing....no "proof" can ever be found....only construed...which makes some things an ongoing mystery.........forever...