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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We have a whole state to remind us how Noah made the boat; Ark’n-saw
Whether the ark was real or not is not a good question. It doesn’t matter.
What matters is whether we understand that the union of male and female is what will continue the human line.
I agree that the Bible is God’s word to us and uses stories to tell us truths. Genesis is not a science text. However, many times Jesus references accounts of the OT (such as Noah, Jonah, etc.) and discusses them as actual accounts.
Related perhaps - he was also quick to point out how some of the things in the O.T. the people got wrong - or at least clarified things and expanded on them. Such as “though shall not murder” is a good commandment, but it even means not to hate people - even one’s enemies.
Bible says it rained for 40 days and 40 nights.
. I find it sad and disappointing that people of faith will contort themselves into pretzels to make those 11 chapters literal.
Yet twist themselves into pretzels to make John 6 figurative.
You cant make this stuff up!
While there is evidence for humans going through population bottlenecks in the last hundred thousand years, there is no evidence that it went through an extreme bottleneck down to 8 individuals during the last several thousand years.
It would have been a depopulation far more extreme than anything Klaus Schwab could aspire to.
It was dismantled and repurposed. Homes, fencing, cooking/heating fuel. Unless G wanted it preserved, it wasn’t preserved and he doesn’t seem to worry about worldly artifacts.
There are a lot of people who believe in the Bible but also have a bit of a humorous side
“Here’s a question for ya....
If Noah and his family were of one race of people.
How in the heck do we have so many different races today?”
Likely a result of the Tower of Babble, when God scattered people to different regions of the world and gave them new languages. People then began to adapt to different climate conditions and as a result developed different body and facial features.
Did I read that they had a nuclear-powered lumber mill? huh well maybe not.
If it was white oak maybe in the right conditions.
It would have had to been covered up very soon after the incident though...like a hundred years or so.
The problem is that they are all looking for it on Mount Ararat. Bible doesnt say that. It says Mountains of Ararat.
The Persian Gulf was freshwater lakes and rivers leading out through the Strait of Hormuz until about 12,500 years ago, when the rising sea level allowed saltwater intrusion into the central basin of the Persian Gulf. The western basin flooded about a 1000 years later.
Shoreline reconstructions for the Persian Gulf since the last glacial maximum
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0012821X96000696?via%3Dihub
That makes sense. Thanks
Geez, I think you’re further down the rabbit hole than I am.
Maya flood myths recorded by Diego de Landa and in the Chilam Balam of Chumayel holds that the only survivors of the flood were the four Bacabs who took their places as upholders of the four corners of the sky.
Mesoamerican flood myths - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_flood_myths
Why would Noah keep the Ark sitting there, rather than disassemble it and repurpose the lumber for housing?
Well, same birthday as Lewis Carroll. (not the same year though)
That must have been kinda neat. You put your order in and they slide it down to your truck.
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