Posted on 07/21/2006 10:13:22 AM PDT by Sopater
Yes, but the story exists, and for a purpose. All this debate about whether it 'really' happened is sidetracking energies that ought to go into understanding the meaning of the story.
There are photos on this thread at reply #33 & 35. #33 is the second link below.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1662218/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1662218/posts?page=33#33
Probably not.
Not hardly. Josephus mentions him, and there is other documentation of the public record type, some no doubt questionable.
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There are pictures on the following article and two threads. This article today is dissappointing. It provides no new information. It neither confirms nor disproves the claim.
Team believes it found Noah's Ark (In Iran) 06/30/06
Noah's Ark Discovered in Iran? 07/08/06
I'd like to see your list.
Believing that the entire planet was covered with water that had to be at least 26,000 feet deep (it had to be deep enough to cover Mt. Everest, which is over 26,000 feet ABOVE sea level)is just a bit farfetched. Just where did all that water go when it "receded"?
I heard that Noah's Ark was really a little 30 foot long river barge in which he loaded his family and some livestock and set sail along the Tigris River down to the Gulf to escape some localized flooding.
The claim was never believable in the first place. Do you have any idea how petrified wood is formed?
Even IF they found petrified wood, that would conclusively prove that it is NOT the ark.
His geologist says "looks like petrified wood. looks like basalt." Well, which is it?
I'm no geologist, but I've seen outcroppings of layered, splitting rock locally. Must have been the North American ark.
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They sure do. Here's a photo.
It's right there. Clear as day. By God it's Noah's Ark!!!
Here's another one.
Who can possibly doubt the existance of Noah's Ark after this hard evidence???
yep. looks like every other petrfied mountain boat i've run across.
There has to have been an Australian Ark, too. Either that, or Noah made a pit stop to drop off the marsupials before heading back to the Middle East.
Both pix look like an outcropping of basaltic rock.
There is more evidence for Jesus than anyone else in history from that time.
Very few writings of any kind at all secular or otherwise survived from that era. From the decade of the 30's, all that survives is a fragment of an amateur history of Rome by AVelleius Paterculus. From the 40's, are fables written by Phaedrus. And from the 50's and 60's about 1 foot of material survived.
I agree, the article just didn't seem to add anything at all. I knew nothing more after reading the article than I had gathered from the 6/30/06 thread.
But if you step back about 20 feet and squint your eyes really hard while cocking your head to the right, it sorta looks like a boat that could've carried one pair of every animal on earth while the entire globe was covered with water.
Umm... < /sarcasm>
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