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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That’s not it. I saw where there are over a dozen instances of that same formation all in the same location.
Sadly that will be true. The Bible is perhaps the most investigated and proven book in the history of mankind.
It can’t be found because all the old ark parts are in my garage, somewhere behind my assorted nuts and bolts boxes.
It’s commonly said that most scholars thought that Troy was mythical. Not having been around then, I can’t say. But Frank Calvert actually found the site of Troy and told Schliemann about it—who bought the property. From Homer’s clues it wasn’t clear where the exact location of Troy was.
The McDonalds ones are arches, you’re thinking of McDowell’s
And look where we are today. A complete repeat prior to Noah’s ark.
Dammit.... you beat me to it.
“There is no way that Noah had wood working tools sufficient or capable of building a seaworthy boat hull over 400 ft long.”
The Ark Depot?
The other two near this one doesnt fit the dimeinsions thst the bible says
:)
Weird, right?
Side Note - I was a monster at Asteroids.
Ararat is a region. The mountains of Ararat could be anywhere there
Noah’s Ark was a ‘tevah’. The Ark of the Covenant is an ‘aron’. Completely different words. Lost in translation indeed!
See #25
“every word in the Bible is not fable, stories, but FACTS from our Creator God”
If you had ever read the Bible you would know that Jesus tells most of his lessons through parables.
One should thus expect God to relate truths the same way.
You realize that if everyone drowned in the flood we are all inbreeds from his family.
I believe the Bible is the divinely inspired word of God. That said, I don’t take the first 11 chapters of Genesis as literal. God is revealing Himself and His relationship to His creation at a time when people believed all sorts of unscientific things. And still, those first 11 chapters are a brilliant description of the human condition. I find it sad and disappointing that people of faith will contort themselves into pretzels to make those 11 chapters literal.
-PJ
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