Posted on 11/22/2022 2:38:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
Noah’s Ark is among the best known and most captivating of all Old Testament stories: After creating humans, God became so displeased with them that he struck Earth with an all-encompassing flood to wipe them out—with one noteworthy (and seaworthy) exception: the biblical patriarch and his family, accompanied by pairs of each of the planet’s animals, who rode out the deluge in an enormous wooden vessel.
For people who accept the religious text as a historically accurate account of actual events, the hunt for archaeological evidence of the Ark is equally captivating, inspiring some intrepid faithful to comb the slopes of Armenia’s Mt. Ararat and beyond for traces of the wooden vessel.
In 1876, for example, British attorney and politician James Bryce climbed Mount Ararat, where Biblical accounts say the Ark came to rest, and claimed a piece of wood that “suits all the requirements of the case” was in fact a piece of the vessel. More modern Ark “discoveries” take place on a regular basis, from an optometrist’s report he’d seen it in a rock formation above the mountain in the 1940s to a claim Evangelical pastors had found petrified wood on the peak in the early 2000s.
But searches for the Ark draw everything from exasperation to disdain from academic archaeologists and biblical scholars. “No legitimate archaeologist does this,” says National Geographic Explorer Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, of modern searches for evidence of Noah.
“Archaeology is not treasure hunting,” she adds. “It’s not about finding a specific object. It’s a science where we come up with research questions that we hope to answer by excavation.”
Flood or fiction?
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“No legitimate archaeologist does this,” says National Geographic Explorer Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, of modern searches for evidence of Noah.
Meh, no legitimate archaelogists went searching for Troy either, until Schliemann did, and he found it.
Noah is famous for saving humanity from complete destruction, and also for the invention of ark welding.
No legitimate archaeologist does this
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And that’s the problem.
Because it’s a story and not real?...
And also, apparently, creating the pride rainbow.
The world governments know that there is something on Ararat. But, for whatever reason, they refuse to acknowledge it.
It doesn’t mean it is Noah’s Ark, but they won’t fund an expedition to confirm that fact.
https://artbulla.com/zion/Noah.html
“They’re digging in the wrong place!”
Can cut lumber survive from multiple centuries past unless preserved by cold temps?
They found Sodom and Gomorrah which they said didn’t exist!!
This is news? I think I came to that conclusion back in the 70’s after watching one of Leonard Nimoy’s In Search Of episodes.
There are great videos on U-Tube explaining why the location discovered by Ron Wyatt is for real.
There are some things that require the use of faith, and other things that are simply history. Even if they found the ark, that would not make people exercise their faith and get saved. All it would do is show more evidence that the accounts of historical events in the Hebrew Bible actually happened.
It’s true that it’s a story.
If it’s petrified, but then it’s not really “lumber” anymore, since it’s a mineral at that point.
“I hate snakes.”
“Noah is famous for saving humanity from complete destruction, and also for the invention of ark welding.”
Noah was also the inspiration for McDonald’s Golden Arcs.
I agree with your agreement...
“Even if they found the ark, that would not make people exercise their faith and get saved.”
“...An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Matt. 12:39-40
They wanted a sign too, and they were given one, and it didn’t make everyone repent. So I think you’re right, a lesser sign given today probably won’t help much.
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