Remarkably preserved!
Posted on 07/19/2007 10:57:32 AM PDT by Fennie
The first sightings of the ark in more modern times took place in 1856 when a group of English scientists climbed the mountain to search for the Ark. They asked a young Armenian boy, Haji Yearman, and his father to guide them up the mountain and show them the ark of Noah. Haji Yearman and his father did just that!
This upset the scientists, because their object was to prove that the ark was not there. These scientists were atheists, and they tried to burn the ark. They said it would not burn, so they tried to destroy it, but they could not.
Then they treatened Haji Yearman and his father with persecution if they ever told of this expedition. The scientists themselves took a death oath that they would never disclose their findings of the ark.
After the death of Haji Yearman, Mr. Williams moved to Brockton, Massachusetts, where he read a newspaper account telling of an English scientist who on his death bed stated that as a young man in 1856 he and two other scientist climbed the mountain of Ararat and saw the ark of Noah. The article states that the other two scientists had died but that this gentleman was troubled because they threatened a young Armenian boy and his father with persecution, and he wanted to get this off his chest before he died. The two accounts coincide, authenticating the expedition which took place -- and the finding of the ark in 1856...
I know, I know, I am going to get flack from the biblical literalists. But aren't these the same people who also accept the New testament parables and the Book of Revelations with all of it's metaphors.
It was a lie ... Lilith was married to Frazier, but they got a divorce and Niles slept with her.
Well; i don’t believe in that alternate site as opposed to “the Ararat Anomoly” becuase of a few facts/evidence”
1) The eye wittness reports on Ararat itself lend crdence to it as the “Ark” site
2) The shape of the “boat” on Ararat as opposed to that alternate site: There have been tests done on models and the “ararat anomoly” is sea-worthy in waves up to 40+ feet, unlike the traditional “boat” shape of the alernative site which I don’t believe would work as well.
3) The dimensions while both as long as 40 cubits or such, a recangular “barge” seems it would have more space for the 2-of-every-kind of animal than a traditional triangular boat shape.
4) There is clearly something on Ararat, even petrified wood by some accounts. Photos show windos even!
5) The alternative site somewhat resembles other rock formations in the area (could it be the ark..possibly, but I think its more like “on Ararat”)!
Pay no attention to people who doubt the existence of Noah’s Ark. They probably don’t believe in Santa Claus, The Tooth Fairy, or The Easter Bunny either.
Remarkably preserved!
The word is "treated"
Well I've pointed this out before, but nobody takes any notice, so the answer to your question is "no".
Note location of Cudi Dagh, an alternative candidate for ArkWreck. Also consider to the people of Mesopotania, the 'Mountains of Urartu’ would be those where the Tigris River rises
Does this book adress the various sightings of an Ark on Mt. Ararat itself..? The fact that as this article (link to this posting) that there is testimony of men entering the Barge and cages for animals found, not to mention the pictures seen of “the anomaly” on Mt. Ararat..I belive this to be the ark, there seems to be difintive proof, if someone can ever get permission to go on the Mountain and excavate/take photo. physical evidence!
A lot of BS. In order to have an Ark, you need to have had a Flood. No such Flood happened 4000 years ago. There would be evidence consistent with universal flooding that would be recognizeable from known characteristics of floods that actually did happen.
Are there cultures who continued uninterrupted from well before, until well after 4000 YBP?
(4356 YBP if the Archbishop Ussher date is accepted.)
A quick google suggests
Sumer ran from 5507 to 4341 YBP
Indus Valley ran from 5502 to 3707 YBP
Egypt ran from 5502 to 2350 YBP
After studying the bible for a couple of years now, I agree. The bible is simply full of analogies, metaphors, and parables.
There are flood legends all over the world. It is clear that gigantic floods occurred in many places, and we see geological evidence of gigantic floods, floods covering tens of thousands of square miles. The entire Mediterannean basin may have quickly flooded, but it appears to have done so 5 million years ago. There was an enormous flood that covered large areas of the great plains in North America, following a breakup of a gigantic ice dam as the glaciers melted.
What we do not see is geological evidence of a flood that covered the entire earth, with no land at all. To someone in the middle of one of the gigantic floods, it might have appeared so.
There is also the controversial proposal of a Black Sea flood.
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