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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The fountains of the deep are located beneath the surface of the earth. Researchers note there is sufficient water there to cover the highest mountains. I’ll get the link when I’m off my phone.
. And the Bible is free from any moral error.
While it is not a science or history book it is accurate in those areas. The purpose of Scripture is to point us to God and ultimately to faith in Christ, and only Christ, for salvation.
Fish were not brought on board per the text.
It is a guess, not an actual conversion constant. A guess. No more, no less.
Oh, good point there. I’ve seen estimates of the cubit between 18 and 21 inches.
Well now, that wasn't Noah's cubit, was it?
On Youtube, there is now a channel providing videos of what may be pre flood archeology. That is, there are very old and massive structures that some believe may predate the flood.
Clarification is required
Is that 300 Biblical or 300 Royal cubits depicted?
Princess Meghan believes that Coming to America is real history
It kind of is for her. A social climbing, casting couch, divorced slut becomes Duchess of Sussex.
Harry is the worst cuck in history.
Floodmyths are the result of curious minds encountering fossils of sea dwelling creatures and logically concluding there wa a flood
We may not have the exact precise number down to millimeters but we have the general number.
Now, old Adam was the first in history.
With an apple, he was tempted and deceived.
Just for spite, the devil made him take a bite,
And that’s how old Adam met his Waterloo.
—Stonewall Jackson
If he had left that apple on the apple tree,
There’d be no sin or sorrow.
We’d live eternally.
—Dorsey Burnette
Not really.
The flood accounts aren’t myths.
Really! Contrary to belief among some, there is overwhelming evidence that oceans rose 400 feet worldwide 12,800 years ago. There are many topographical and bathyscaphe maps you can peruse, were you so inclined.
Moreover, rejecting the Bible because it does not meet modern standards of science and history is absurd. Calling the Bible unscientific and ahistorical is not so much a criticism as a simple observation that it was composed before science and history were even developed. And, as we both agree, the Bible's purpose is moral instruction.
I have looked at the evidence for sea level rise in that time period, and that evidence shows that it was mostly gradual, with some sharp but limited rises due to the collapse of Antarctic ice sheets. Please refer me to your evidence for an abrupt 400 foot rise worldwide 12,800 years ago.
The odd thing is that no secular historians credit a world-wide flood as happening.
That's unlike most of the New Testament, which their is a lot of secular support for the historicity of.
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