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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How can something be exactly 300 cubits long when a cubit is different for every person?
2 dead giraffes near the ark means no giraffes.
‘Actually it was God who spared humanity for destruction by using Noah.’
any particular reason why God couldn’t have spared humanity by, well, not destroying them in the first place...?
The world before the flood would have been much different than after the flood.
Their Staff is too long!
So why doesn’t God overlook all sin? God hates justice?
Looks like we got us an explanation.
‘but Noah lived..’
you have no way of knowing that...
‘and yes there WAS a FLOOD.’
actually history has recorded a great number of floods...your point...?
And we all need a good laugh.
‘So why doesn’t God overlook all sin?’
overlooking sin is one thing; an onmiscient entity destroying his entire living creation (as you recall, all animals and children, including the unborn, were wiped out as well due to what God determined was his own mistake in creating them in the first place...before invoking the concept of justice, please explain how destroying those who cannot by definition live in sin (animals, infants) for their sinful lives in any way describes any notion of justice...
Since God told it to Noah, it was the length of Noah’s forearm.
Well damn, that had to have hurt.
So, how do they know the length of Noah’s forearm? Remember, the article said that was exactly 300 cubits long. I don’t recall any correlation between Noah’s forearm and any other form of known measure.
Fishing would have certainly been better.
Nothing ties those occurrences to the same time.
Uh oh. I know where that leads. Blondie!!!
Roy G Bev
Human beings need to understand that their evil destroys not only themselves, but also the creation over which The Creator has granted them dominion.
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