[US Navy Vet]

Sure does! It’s CALLED the KING JAMES HOLY BIBLE! See KJV Genesis Chap 5 through 11.

[PIF]

Worldwide floods or what happens when two mile high glaciers covering most of the northern hemisphere and some of the southern suddenly decide to melt. -— abt 16,500 BC.

[Yosemitest]

In my opinion, “Jewish atheist” Dr Irving Finkel created this "FAKE" tablet to make fun of the religion he despises.

From the article The tablet that altered the story of Noah's Ark:

" The story of Noah’s Ark has always captivated the minds of children. Many have walked animal miniatures two-by-two into toy boats, as they imagine the vessel that saved believers from 40 rainy days and nights of flood.

But it is a story that does not hold water with Dr Irving Finkel, the British Museum curator in charge of cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia. Dr Finkel has decoded a 4,000-year-old terracotta-coloured tablet that purports to give the exact measurements of the Ark — long before the biblical account was written.

This “ark” is circular, like a coracle boat, takes up half a football pitch and is enclosed in a length of rope that would reach from London to Edinburgh. “It didn’t have to go in any direction, it just had to float and survive the flood,” he says pointing to the cuneiform marks, as if I was able to read the ancient language.

...Finkel, who describes himself as a “Jewish atheist”, says he does not believe the Ark existed, despite remains apparently being found at Mount Ararat in Turkey. He believes that the Judeans, taken to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar II, incorporated Babylonian mythology into the Torah, but gave the stories a new, moral dimension. ... "

[ForYourChildren]

“Humans passing this story for hundreds of years and at some point in time an anonymous person putting it in writing and then other anonymous authors writing their own version of the story at different points in time.”

In almost every civilization there is a flood story with a boat and a family. Interesting that WSJ seems to say that “this story” may come from one actual event; whereas current culture says the Bible is wrong and that all flood stories are referring to some local event.

[Secret Agent Man]

nope, the bible sure does though.

[Two Kids' Dad]

Aside from the impossible logistics of gathering two of every animal on earth and all the requisite food to keep them alive, what about the myriad fishermen alive during that time? Surely their boats could survive during this time and they could drink the rain water and catch fish for sustenance, right? So why would Noah’s boat be the only one to survive? And did he have two white people and two Asians and two Africans and two Indians and two people of every race? Did they then all commit incest to grow their numbers sufficient to repopulate the planet?

This particular story has always bothered me. And when one calculates the sheer volume of water to accomplish what the story says, it’s simply preposterous on its face. Even if every bit of ice melted the sea level change wouldn’t even come close to covering the whole earth up to the mountaintops. Sure, it would swamp the low-lying areas and all the coastal towns would be inundated, but the people and animals could simply move to higher ground and survive.

I think the Noah story was about a regional flood and as it was retold numerous times the size and impact of the flooding got exaggerated and when it was finally written down it wasn’t even remotely accurate any more.

But that’s just my two cents. Your mileage may differ.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Roughly translated it means: “What’s a cubit?”

[Yosemitest]

This one is worth your time.

Noah's Ark, a Milestone in History ( 17:13 )
Published on Mar 19, 2014

A Mile-stone; History was made in the fact that for the first time in history the discovery of the prehistoric sites, burried in a lakebed of a glacier on Mt. Ararat in Turkey,
has been presented before the archaeological world by a scientist in their own scientific language at the ASOR 2013 Annual Meeting, November 20 - 23, Baltimore, U.S.A.
E-mail: arkinsight@gmail.com

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I still can’t get around Robert Cornuke’s assertion that Genesis 11:2 stipulates that Noah’s descendants journeyed “from the east” or “eastward” (depending on the translation) and settled on a plain in Shinar. Shinar (the plains of Mesopotamia) is due south of Mt. Ararat in Turkey. Also, Genesis describes other mountains around the mountain where the ark landed and Mt. Ararat is a “lonely mountain”. Cornuke made the claim that the ark actually settled in the mountains of northern Irag or Armenia (a k a the land of Urartu”). This has always made sense to me. Besides, nothing in the Bible indicates that that ark is still around today - never understood why folks expected to find it. That’s some old wood, pitch-coated or no.

[Star Traveler]

Review by Randall Price ...

Noah, The Film: All Washed Up
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3138756/posts