Posted on 02/17/2008 5:05:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
USS Saratoga:
Displacement: 81,101 tons full, 61,235 tons light, 19,866 tons dead
Length: 1,063 feet (324 m)
Beam: 130 feet (39.6 m) waterline, 252 feet (76.8 m) extreme
Draft: 37 feet (11.3 m)
Second that. I DO believe in christ and God, totally; but this really is BS. Call me an overly righteous SOB but this is what happened. Noah was a pakistani farmer living in the Indus River delta area. The Indus River floods irregularly, and he(his father/grandfather)had been flooded out before. So he built a 3 layer log raft 45’long, 8’wide 3’high on the high point of his land, anchoring it with a rope to a large tree, complete with goat skin tent, so that he could ride out the next river flood.
Instead along comes a 4 day hurricane with its storm surge of around 20’, or 15 cubits deep as it says in the story(just above the treetops which he knew were 15 cubits high). All the farm critters head for high ground(including snakes)as the hurricane’s flood waters rise. Thus a raft loaded with animals gets washed out into the Gulf of Arabia where from on the surface of a spherical earth it appears the whole world is covered with water.
It gets carried around in the great CCW gyre(northern hemisphere)and washes up on a sand bar some weeks later. They have to wade to the true shore at low tide(the water assuages). Noah goes back to farming, parties naked, etc. Three(illiterate)sons remember this traumatic story of being hurricane survivors and pass it on to their sons.
Seven generations go by and here Noah’s sheepherder descendents are sitting around a campfire, sipping adult beverages and telling fish stories. This is on the plains of shinar(iraq)where everyone is a GOD or SON of GOD, a macho monkey thing. So this old, and true, story of surviving a hurricane in pakistan gets jinned up : sand bar becomes Mt Ararat, 4 days of rain becomes 40 days, etc; and then told to the children that it is all perfectly true(see how GREAT a people we are, ie, early spin, hype, PR).
Still another 7 genertions go by and this old myth is taught as God’s truth to a young pakistani boy : ABRAM. As Marilyn Vos Savant(IQ 230)observed : you can convince a 5 year old of ANYTHING, a 95 year old of NOTHING.
So now you have IDIOTS finding noah’s ark every now and then on Mt Ararat when it was just a fish story invented around an iraqi campfire long ago by pakistani sheepherders. And of course, that means JEWS as well as ARABS, that claim ABRAHAM as their father, are pakistanis by genetic descent.
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Yes, here’s one explanation:
“Gopher wood” is a misreading and scribal error. “Kopher” wood is correct and means wood (any wood) that is covered with Kopher. Kopher is bitumen. In the Genesis text (6:14), the context is clear. The GPR wood used, (a scribal error) is to be covered in KPR. G and K in Hebrew are so similar that inexperienced Hebrew “scholars,” such as those translating the King James Version of the Bible, could have been prone to such errors, indeed, they made many such errors.
Maybe the bible said so, but I don't think so. So for me, it's hogwash.
It will be interesting to see what they brought back though.
... and just what is it in your little, closed mind that makes you declare something so juvenile? Have you taken the time to study the many years' worth of evidence that supports this 'find'? That the Ark is perched atop Ararat?
No, you say??
Do that...............then come back. Thanks for playing.
Apparently, it was the maximum length of a rod that one could beat one's wife with.
There's been decades of nonsensical non-evidence purportedly from Mt. Ararat.
This is presumably (and I'm extremely confident it will turn out to be) more of the same.
It was done as a training and targeting exercise for the new tool, but they soon regretted the decision as it brought unwanted attention to them, both from a curious public, and idiot elected officials looking to point to alleged waste by the agencies.
And, the photo resolution quality was probably a secret that they didn't want released.
I don't know if they are still classified.
Maybe Creationists heads too, since this is a piece of petrified wood.
"Great big gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts." How about a nice, cool drink, varmints? Scum, slime, menace to the golfing industry! You're a disgrace. You're varmints. You're one of the lowest members of the food chain and you'll probably be replaced by the rat. Well, I have been pushed. It's about time somebody teaches these varmints a little lesson about morality and about what it's like to be a decent, upstanding member of a society! Come to Carl, varmint. I guess we're playing for keeps now. I guess the kidding around is pretty much over. I guess it's just a matter of pumping about 5,000 gallons of water down there to teach you a lesson. Is that it? I think it is!
And was the paint made in China?
It is interesting that the wood would be petrified after such a short time, and without a silicate or lime layer over it.
Well that nice and all, but doesn't all that jitterbugging trash the idea of a Bible that's inerrant --free of error?
Close.
Actually, “gopher” in Hebrew is separate from “kopher”. It is derived from an unused root word, probably meaning to house in: a kind of tree or wood (as used for building: apparently the cypress. (Ref: Strongs)
You nailed the kopher. Betumin, along with the henna plant for dyeing. (Ref: Strongs)
The KJV translators didn’t need to translate the OT Hebrew because it was the Hebrews themselves (the Masoretes) that added a full system of vowels between 600-950AD, allowing it to be printed five centuries later. (Ref: Unger’s pg 883).
Another example of God keeping His promise to preserve His Word. (Ps 12:6-7)
I hope their heads do explode.
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