New photo resparks 'Noah's Ark mania'

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | March 10, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern | Joe Kovacs

[Tim Long]

Very true. I am convinced nothing will cause the evos to admit the truth of Creation (Coelacanths, T-Rex soft tissue, etc.). Nontheless, I find things such as this to be incredibly interesting.

[VadeRetro]

ehhh, high tide?

Let's not assume a tsunami. Suppose we have to raise the average water level by 3 miles.

Using the figure from here, the Earth radius is 3,959. Take that as center to sea-level.

Volume of the Earth, cubic miles:

V = 4/3pi(r^^3),

2.599234 x 10^^11 cubic miles.

Same thing with radius plus 3 more miles of water.

2.6051457 x 10^^11 cubic miles.

The difference: 591,331,720 cubic miles of water.

Present estimates of the total Earth's water: 326 million cubic miles.

Amount of water then / amount of water now = 1.8

[VadeRetro]

Amount of water then / amount of water now = 1.8

2.8, not 1.8. You still need the current water plus 1.8 x more.

[Tanniker Smith]

Can't someone put the co-ordinates into Google Earth?

[Tanniker Smith]

According to Genesis, Noah was a righteous man who was instructed by God to construct a large vessel to hold his family and many species of animals

God, what's a 'cubit'?

[Tanniker Smith]

Sorry, but I don't read anything purporting to be a reference source that uses "B.C.E." instead of "B.C.".

BCE is a meaningless contrivance and immediately tells you that it'll be hostile to any reporting on the Flood.

[RightWhale]

Noory will have these or a couple Ark guys on Coast tonight. Noory already said the image looks like a snowdrift.

[Tanniker Smith]

You clearly have never seen an episode of Dr. Who.

And now's your chance! Coming to Sci-Fi next Friday!!

[cookcounty]

" It doesn't matter to me whether Noah's Ark is found or not. However, I am left wondering why photos of Mt.Ararat have been classified for so many years. Can anyone say, "information suppression"? Really, what is on Mt.Ararat that would be considered "classified"? "

Not sure why it would be classified now, but Ararat was a closed military area during the cold war, Ararat was on the Turkish-USSR border. I guess that would be Turkish-Armenian or Turkish-Georgian border now.

[Central Scrutiniser]

If there was an ark, how did the koala eat after they landed, and how did it get back to Australia?

What about the sloth? They can only live in trees.

What did the carniverous animals eat?

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Noah's Ark was a FABLE

And Creationism is a joke.

[cookcounty]

"Only if you can explain how Noah and his family kept two of every wild animal and 7 of every domesticated animal on a boat 450 feet long by 75 feet wide for 8 months."

Easy to explain: rapid evolution. Actually every creationist believes in evolution, if by that one means variation as in genetic drift and degradation. The type of evolution where constructive mutation is involved is what creationists reject.

I don't describe myself as a creationist, I'm a skeptic about all explanations. None of them make sense to me.

[cookcounty]

"Iron? Meaning it was built during the Iron Age around 1300 BC. "

Well, Iron was definitely being worked around 1900 BC. (In Asia Minor, interestingly enough). But no one can say with certitude, how early the first use of iron was.

You're succumbing to "absolute minimalism," one of the signs of a closed mind.

[hail to the chief]

We'll see how that plays out once you can actually resurrect someone or summon an ark.

Until then, keep the strawmen to yourself.

[blam]

"The only answer that comes to my mind is that there are scientists and archeologists that do not want Noah's Ark found. I mean, how far would that set them and their theories back? "

What a ridiculious idea. Archaeologists and anthropologists would be elated if Noah's Ark was found. I don't know of any theory by a reputable scientist that would be affected by this discovery. I would love to get some tree-ring data from the wood on it, lol.

[Pro-Bush]

Helicopters are very limited in terms of their service ceilings.

A helicopter has landed on top of mount Everest 29,000 feet high.

[binkdeville]

I agree. There is no ark up there.

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

Where did all that water go?

[Angus MacGregor]

And Creationism is a joke.

Umm, let's leave your genital size out of this, ok buddy...

[bluefish]

Does "Christianity and the JEWS" (as you put it) state specifically that the ARK came to rest on Mt. Ararat?