Posted on 04/27/2010 8:28:30 AM PDT by evets
The remains of Noah's Ark have been discovered 13,000ft up a Turkish mountain, it has been claimed.
A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say they have found wooden remains on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.
They claim carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old around the same time the ark was said to be afloat.
Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah's Ark Ministries International research team, said: "It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it."
He said the structure contained several compartments, some with wooden beams, that they believe were used to house animals.
The group of evangelical archaeologists ruled out an established human settlement on the grounds none have ever been found above 11,000ft in the vicinity, Yeung said.
Local Turkish officials will ask the central government in Ankara to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status so the site can be protected while a major archaeological dig is conducted.
The biblical story says that God decided to flood the Earth after seeing how corrupt it was.
He then told Noah to build an ark and fill it with two of every animal species.
After the flood waters receded, the Bible says, the ark came to rest on a mountain.
Many believe that Mount Ararat, the highest point in the region, is where the ark and her inhabitants ran aground.
“I didnt think carbon dating was that accurate.”
Only for artifacts dated to be under 6,000 years of age.
No, it takes more than 5 times, somewhere between 10 and 30 times, depending upon what you call "sea level" (10 times being for all ice already melted, 30 times if there are ice sheets as we already see).
You and your pesky facts and logic and reason...;)
Had the ark been so important back then as the Noah story purports, we'd find manuscript after manuscript of the event. Does that exist??
Noah certainly carried manuscripts with him and his family as he entered the ark. And the manuscript that we have today -- it's called the Bible... doncha know ... :-)
Couldn't God just send some more water over to the earth from somewhere else or just snapped his fingers and made some more water and then made it disappear? After all, if he changed the rates of isotopic decay and the speed of light ...
>> The Noah story is the Jewish version of the Akkadian (per-Summerian) Gilgamesh flood story. Much more likely that the flood was experienced in the Persian Gulf when rising seas broke open the Strait of Hormuz. This is also the site of Eden. Cant see how the ark got to Mount Ararat. Methinks there is something up there, but what it is is beyond me. <<
The end of the last Ice Age over 10,000 years ago had Glaciers melting so fast that it would have made it’s own puddle under Al Gore’s fat behind. This occurred in both Asia, Europe and North America. It is no wonder there is a cultural history of the “Great Flood”.
The End of the Last Ice Age had Glaciers Melting so fast that Al Gore would have a stroke at the mere thought of it.
No wonder cultural history in most Norther Hemisphere cultures remember an event that was a “Great Flood”.
While two is the popularized number, it's inaccurate. There was one pair of each unclean animal, and seven pairs of each clean animal:
Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate...
tg, thanks, for the link. :D
I don’t see how what you believe or don’t believe has any bearing on reality.
Thanks. Been studying this for years :-)
Couldn't God just send some more water over to the earth from somewhere else or just snapped his fingers and made some more water and then made it disappear? After all, if he changed the rates of isotopic decay and the speed of light ..."
How do you get the Water Back into the Mantle after the flood? Most of that water is tied up in the deep earth, if it was brought out at the same time you would have to EXPLODE the planet. Rapid Melting of Continental Ice Sheets after the last Ice Age DID cause real flooding and catastrophic flooding at that.
And if God can snap his fingers and do things like break the laws of physics, maybe his hobby is pestering Federation Starship Captains.
saw it fox via facebook...they are identical articles...
I do.
I didn't mean to jump over the Millenium, but it is a finite period, with a nasty ending at that.
I'm looking forward to Revelation 21 and eternity with our Redeemer and the Redeemed.
>Only for artifacts dated to be under 6,000 years of age.
“Radiocarbon dating, or carbon dating, is a radiometric dating method that uses the naturally occurring radioisotope carbon-14 (14C) to determine the age of carbonaceous materials up to about 58,000 to 62,000 years.[1] Raw, i.e. uncalibrated, radiocarbon ages are usually reported in radiocarbon years “Before Present” (BP), “Present” being defined as AD 1950. Such raw ages can be calibrated to give calendar dates.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating
Reminds me of that movie, Lost City Raiders I saw recently where the Vatican hired some treasure hunters to find an ancient scepter that was said would save the planet from glowbull (yes, I meant to spell it that way, as we have seen the light and now know it is a bunch of bull) warming which was making the waters rise. The scepter caused an explosion which created a fault and all of the water drained back into the earth.
Here is a movie clip, the good part starts at about 3:30:
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