The Bible does not say that the Ark will remain on Ararat forever, that Noah's descendents wouldn't use it for firewood or as a house, that the elements wouldn't remove it from existence. To someone who believes this story, it happened 5000 years ago, and we can't even find Viking boats from 900 years ago, let alone something supposedly that old.
Find an Ark up there in pristine condition, and you would have something to argue about. Find nothing, and you have proven nothing,except that nothing remains of the Ark, just as nothing remains of innumerable physical items mentioned in the Bible.
Well..., apparently enough people have seen it, over the period of about a century and a half, so that it seems to have not been used up or consumed. Reports seem to indicate a full-sized boat and not one missing most of the structure.
I don’t know if I would call it being in pristine condition, but it appears to be mostly there from prior reports.
As far as physical items being left from the various time periods spoken about in the Bible, I would say that they’ve dug up enough archeological artifacts, for the things spoken about in the Bible, to fill many museums. There’s no shortage there.
Overall, on the weight of everything that the Bible speaks about, that mankind has been able to find and verify, it is accurate. There are things that haven’t been found, but that isn’t something unusual for things so far in the past. You would not expect to not find everything. For what has been found, it matches up with what the Bible says. That gives validity to the other things that people have not been able to find and verify at this point in time.
Regards,
Star Traveler
We can't even find Jimmy Hoffa and he allegedly died 32 years ago.*
*He and James Dean are running a dry goods store in Moab, Utah.