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Even IF the story of the Ark was anything more than a parable, and even IF such a craft came to rest on the slopes of Ararat, there is little chance it would still exist, in any form.

Could you just IMAGINE someone asking the DOD to detail one of its indispensable Preds to look at a common rock formation, on the chance that it's Noah's Ark, in the middle of a war?!?

Whatever general was hearing the request would call security, immediately.

How many "expeditions" to this area have been announced over the years? How many have actually gone, and how many of THOSE have brought back scientifically verified evidence? Seems to me that a LOT of con jobs have been run on religious people, using their faith against them.

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>>Even IF the story of the Ark was anything more than a parable, and even IF such a craft came to rest on the slopes of Ararat, there is little chance it would still exist, in any form.

Actually I'm not so sure about that, esp if it is encased in ice at the top of a mountain.

As a former archaeologist, I am constantly surprised at what we find, intact, after close to 1000 years or more. Heck look at some of the mummified remains from Peru as an example. Or the infamous Ice Man (Otzi) from the Italy/Austria border in the Alps. He was from the Copper Age, which is roughly 5,300 years ago. And they could tell what he had for dinner. And he was in ice, at the top of a mountain.