Posted on 03/09/2006 11:30:41 PM PST by Tim Long
"It's a rock cliff face."
Looks that way to me too.
My answer... BOTH ;-)
That's all it is..Its a legend .
The best book, The Ark of Noah, was by David Fasold who now repudiates his idea that what he found was the ark. It did, however, appear to be an actual artifact (well, archeological site since whatever it was had decomposed and was partially buried. It did, though, contain quite a lot of iron). Ironically, it was in the Ararat range, but not on "Mt. Ararat" and was dynamited by folks who were on their way to Mt. Ararat to find what they thought was the "real" ark photographed earlier in the century. At least this guy's book brought together a lot of interesting historical ark-related material from the Near East, including various flood stories, and posited a craft that was at least plausible in a way that other descriptions have not been. They found across the region a number of very large anchor stones as well as sarcophagi and other ancient artwork depicting ark-related themes.
I doubt that you can find any "unclassified" government source confirming that. You might find "leaked" info, but I don't know if that is true, altho I have heard it for quite a while, now.
Care to tell me how all them cold blooded snakes found their way back to Africa?
Did the pandas walk back to China?
What did they eat?
Did the tigers kill any of the other animals? Mighty cold at the top of that mountain.
Like I said, Creationism is for empty headed luddites who feel threatened by any new thought or discovery.
Turns out Google Earth is only accurate to within three years. I used to joke with people while looking at it, saying "Go outside and wave."
No, abiogenesis is a joke. Good luck with that one.
I don't know if your lol was tongue in cheek or at my statement. However, I'll give your statements a rounding Ha Ha Ha. In a pigs eye.
That ship looks considerably larger than 300 cubits by 50 cubits.
LOL! I'll add that we should throw Babara Eden as "Jeanie" into the bunch. Awwww yeah!
Thinking back to my grade school science classes I remember something called the water cycle. Water is evaporated, then condensation leads to precipitation which is either absorbed into the ground or runs off into the sea or other body of water, and the whole process starts all over again. The long and short of it is that it's pretty much a closed cycle. We're not making any more water, just reusing the water we have on the planet currently. So if we accept that then where did the additional moisture come from to cause enough rain to cover the earth to a depth of at least 15000 feet. And where did all that moisture go afterwards?
Carolyn
See the guy in post 72 since I seem to have a closed mind, it so closed I don't know what absolute minimalism is.
My friend, I'm certainly not threatened by you or your ridiculous theory. I feel sad for you that you worship and hold dear fossils and bones,and make up fables of your own to explain how we got here. Sad really.
A person like yourself that believes that we all came from a single celled organism should not label people of faith empty headed.
As to your profound questions on Noah, the simple answer is...by the power of God.
Can a donkey talk? One did in the bible. Can the sun stand still in the sky? It did in the bible. Can a man be raised from the dead? It happened in the bible.
If man can put a man on the moon, I think God could save his creation in a ship.
A life without faith is an empty one, no amount of evolving will change that.
Good luck with your new fossil find, I can't wait.
Looks like a plain ol' rock to me.
A helicopter made a precarious rescue at one of the camps down the mountain. It did not land on top.
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