Impossible, that's not an ark! Where would the animals fit? There's just enough room for 7 castaways...
Posted on 03/09/2006 11:30:41 PM PST by Tim Long
Impossible, that's not an ark! Where would the animals fit? There's just enough room for 7 castaways...
Actually, they were afraid of revealing the 14 different Noah's Arks that have been found, for fear it would reveal the existence of the antediluvian mass-cloning program and the veritable naval fleet of arks which are scattered all over the place:
CH500: The ArkThe only answer that comes to my mind is that there are scientists and archeologists that do not want Noah's Ark found.And: Sun Pictures and the Noah's Ark Hoax
- CH500. Noah's ark has been found.
- CH501. We can expect to find Noah's ark on Mount Ararat.
- CH502.1. Noah's ark may have been photographed on Ararat in 1949.
- CH502.2. ERTS satellite photographed Noah's ark in 1973.
- CH503. Noah's ark has been found near Dogubayazit, Turkey.
- CH504.1. James Bryce found a 4-foot timber high on Ararat.
- CH504.2. Navarra retrieved hand-hewn wood from high on Ararat.
- CH504.3. Hardwicke Knight found soft wood timbers on Ararat.
- CH505.1. Yearam guided three vile scientists to Noah's ark in 1916.
- CH505.2. An 1883 Turkish expedition found Noah's ark.
- CH505.3. Prince Nouri of Baghdad found the ark in 1887.
- CH505.4. Hagopian visited the ark with his uncle around 1908.
- CH505.5. Russian aviator Roskovitsky photographed the ark.
- CH505.6. Resit, a Kurdish farmer, found the ark in 1948.
- CH505.7. Local Kurds led Ed Davis to the ark in 1943.
- CH505.8. Ed Behling was led to the ark in 1973.
LOL! If that's the "only" possible reason that comes to your mind as to why aerial photographs, especially from intelligence agencies, might have been classified, then you're suffering from a severe lack of critical thinking. Hint: What about the dozen or more reasons that aerial photographs of areas *other* than Ararat are routinely classified?
I mean, how far would that set them and their theories back?
Ah yes, the nefarious "them"... And their "theories" Which Must Not Be Named...
Looks like it's time to buy more Alcoa stock...
Actually, neither "they" nor "their theories" would be "set back", because the theories are based on the totality of the evidence and research, and none of that would change whether or not someone found a boat. The evidence would still indicate what it indicates, and the research results would still be what they are. Nuclear isotopes would continue to decay at the same rate, population genetics would still behave the same way, etc.
Nah, you can't sell books and collect "expedition money" for close-up photos of a rock outcropping. It has to be an ongoing "unsolved mystery" to keep the money flowing in, so it'd be foolhardy to go resolve it the quick and easy way.
CH505.1. Yearam guided three vile scientists to Noah's ark in 1916.1916 was the yeat that the elderly Armenian allegely spun the tale to Rev Harold Williams. The event supposedly happened in the mid-1850s
"I showed the ark to three atheists, who were then called scientists" 
"Actually, neither "they" nor "their theories" would be "set back", because the theories are based on the totality of the evidence and research, and none of that would change whether or not someone found a boat"
And their "totality of the evidence and research" Which Must Not Be Named. Science has become a religion with people who defend their "theories" as profound facts and death to anyone who dares not to believe. All of your theories are based on a set of assumptions, some of which are probably correct, some of which are probably incorrect. For you to say that a discovery such as this would have no impact is proof you lack an open mind. Who knows what will be discovered tomorrow, maybe its fusion in a bottle with speakers attached, maybe its liquid water on one of Saturns moons.
It would certainly be a kick in the head for those who explain fish fossils, etc., far inland in many places, to the earths undulation.
The flood is no more far fetched than the relativity of time, worm holes, the string theory, dark matter, anti matter, etc.
Personally, with my limited knowledge, if the earth's crust is floating on a molten center, continental drift, which seems obvious by just looking at a globe, and undulation seem probable. The flood doesn't. Yet, much about the Bible doesn't seem plausible and I believe it, give or take a few translation inconsistencies.
Looks more like a battleship! Are we missing any...
Evesdropping devices aimed at the Soviets?
Granted Iron has existed long before the Babalonians and definitely as far back as when "Lucy" (Not Desi's Lucy) first walked upright, mainly in meteorites. thought the found percentages is low (~18 %).
Truly, the Iron age is the era when man broke the code to manufacture iron from the raw materials of the Earth. You can't tell me that if the technology existed thousands of years before that no one would have used it for purposes other than creating rivits.
After all, tools, weapons, farm implements, nails, all kinds of applications, everything you can imagine and use today could have been done centuries prior.
Wyatt Archaeological Research has been known to promote some questionable information. I wouldn't believe what they have to say. I reinforce what Answers in Genesis says - caution. As much as I would like to see that ark, I don't believe that lying and making crazy claims aids Christianity. At one time, Wyatt Archaeological Research claimed they had a sample fo Christs' blood. That's crazy.
"The only answer that comes to my mind is that there are scientists and archeologists that do not want Noah's Ark found. "
I agree with you.
The muslims have Noah's ark resting ELSWHERE not on Mount Ararat. This would be a major blow to their wrong beliefs. The surroundiong areas are MUSLIM. I doubt that they would like to be WRONG on where they believe the Ark rests and Christianity and the Jews be RIGHT.
"Finding Noah's ark couldn't possibly do the theory of evolution any good."
No it wouldn't but they conjure up some story about that too. Lying is not new to them. Neither are their hoaxes.
It's a politically charged area. Turkey, Syria and Russia don't want people there.
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.
300 by 50 by 30 cubits, apparently.
I met a guy some years ago, a believer who claimed to have had a good look at the ark from an airplane. He was a pilot, the husband of one of my children's elementary school teachers.
You clearly have never seen an episode of Dr. Who. It's the same technology. Isn't it obvious?
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