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Why Noah’s Ark Will Never Be Found
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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?

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: History; Religion; Travel
KEYWORDS: 300manyearsoflabor; fauxiantroll; fauxiantrolls; noah; noahsmalarkey
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To: Libloather

How can something be exactly 300 cubits long when a cubit is different for every person?


101 posted on 11/22/2022 5:15:22 PM PST by GingisK
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To: OldWarBaby

2 dead giraffes near the ark means no giraffes.


102 posted on 11/22/2022 5:16:13 PM PST by Jonty30 (You can't spell liberal without the a-hole. )
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To: ealgeone

‘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...?


103 posted on 11/22/2022 5:17:46 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: OldWarBaby

The world before the flood would have been much different than after the flood.


104 posted on 11/22/2022 5:19:47 PM PST by Jonty30 (You can't spell liberal without the a-hole. )
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To: Libloather

Their Staff is too long!


105 posted on 11/22/2022 5:20:47 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: IrishBrigade

So why doesn’t God overlook all sin? God hates justice?


106 posted on 11/22/2022 5:23:36 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: oldasrocks

Looks like we got us an explanation.


107 posted on 11/22/2022 5:25:30 PM PST by mcshot (If we're the best of the bunch we're in trouble.)
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To: pollywog

‘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...?


108 posted on 11/22/2022 5:26:32 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: monkeyshine

And we all need a good laugh.


109 posted on 11/22/2022 5:29:10 PM PST by mcshot (If we're the best of the bunch we're in trouble.)
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To: jjotto

‘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...


110 posted on 11/22/2022 5:35:07 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: GingisK

Since God told it to Noah, it was the length of Noah’s forearm.


111 posted on 11/22/2022 5:35:46 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: FarCenter
Consider also the Burckle Crater, a prospective impact feature on the floor of the southern Indian Ocean thought to date to circa 3000–2800 BCE. That puts it within the ambit of the stories of Gilgamesh/Noah, and such an impact would have generated a massive tsunami and extended rains in the Persian Gulf and coastal Mesopotamia. Notably, there is a Mount Ararat in present day Iran.

Wikipedia - Burckle Crater

112 posted on 11/22/2022 5:35:53 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: fidelis

Well damn, that had to have hurt.


113 posted on 11/22/2022 5:38:03 PM PST by mcshot (If we're the best of the bunch we're in trouble.)
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To: Libloather

Yes, that’s exactly where it is.

https://noahsarkscans.nz/


114 posted on 11/22/2022 5:43:41 PM PST by Philsworld
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To: scrabblehack

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.


115 posted on 11/22/2022 5:43:52 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Jonty30

Fishing would have certainly been better.


116 posted on 11/22/2022 5:44:37 PM PST by mcshot (If we're the best of the bunch we're in trouble.)
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To: ealgeone
Every ancient society has an account of a great flood

Nothing ties those occurrences to the same time.

117 posted on 11/22/2022 5:45:22 PM PST by GingisK
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To: kiryandil

Uh oh. I know where that leads. Blondie!!!


118 posted on 11/22/2022 5:48:02 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Roy G Bev


119 posted on 11/22/2022 5:49:12 PM PST by GingisK
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To: IrishBrigade

Human beings need to understand that their evil destroys not only themselves, but also the creation over which The Creator has granted them dominion.


120 posted on 11/22/2022 5:51:02 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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