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Noah's Ark Discovered in Iran?
National Geographic ^ | 7/7/06 | Kate Ravilious

Posted on 07/07/2006 10:05:17 PM PDT by freedom44

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To: Vicomte13
In Waterworld, dry-land was the top of Mt. Everest.
21 posted on 07/07/2006 10:41:08 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: GarySpFc; mysterio; JennysCool; All
Might want to check these out
At work so gotta be quick with this

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Hope this comes out right--- Later gang --- Spartan

22 posted on 07/07/2006 10:56:19 PM PDT by spartan68
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To: AntiGuv



No one has ever told me how the reptiles made it back home, or how the monkeys swam back to S. America.

Noah's Ark was a fable.


23 posted on 07/07/2006 11:02:34 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser ("You can't really dust for vomit.")
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To: freedom44

:-) and they walked on 2 by 2


24 posted on 07/07/2006 11:02:41 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: timer

There isn't really evidence (outside of the Bible) of a flood that covered the WHOLE WORLD, including the tops of the Himalayas et al) under miles of water (nor is there enough water in the world to do it, unless the oceans were a LOT shallower than they are). But there certainly IS evidence of a lot of heavy flooding all over the world in the same time period, perhaps 10,000, perhaps 15,000 years ago.

There are whole cities underwater on the submerged plain that links Indonesia with Australia and the mainland.

The legends of the eastern woodland Indians include the tale of a great flood, particularly which broke open Long Island Sound and made it part of the ocean.

West coast Indians have similar stories.
Actually, there's a flood legend of one sort or other in all of the world, including the European legend of Atlantis.

Because there really was a flood.
Its source was more mundane, and the effects were not QUITE as dire as the drowning of the ENTIRE world, but they were pretty dire.
The waters never receded from this flood.
It's why the Siberian Land Bridge is still underwater.

The cause: global warming.
In the last ice age, a lot more of the Earth's water was in ice, and a lot more of the Earth was covered in great sheets of ice. Then the climate heated up and that ice melted. Not slowly. The Great Lakes are the inland remains of that ice sheet over America. But when the oceanic ice melted, it raised the level of the oceans. Probably not slowly.

Those were disastrous times. Weather pounding, coastal lands submerging, islands (like Britain), being sundered from the mainland. People used to live on those drowned continental shelves, and they are all around the world. Every culture has a distant myth, a memory in legend of its own Atlantis experience. Because when the Ice Age ended, men were there, and the oceans rose by hundreds of miles.

It probably didn't happen in 40 days, but it probably didn't happen over 4000 years either. Every coastal culture's legends remember "The Flood", or "A Flood", back at the dawn of time. The Mesopotamian culture of Sumeria, whence Abraham came, remembered it too. "Eden" is at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.


25 posted on 07/07/2006 11:02:50 PM PDT by Vicomte13 (Paris vaut bien une messe.)
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To: Vicomte13

What we have here...is a bunch of godless heathens...LMAO


26 posted on 07/07/2006 11:17:55 PM PDT by Crim (I may be a Mr "know it all"....but I'm also a Mr "forgot most of it"...)
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To: Central Scrutiniser; AntiGuv
"Noah's Ark was a fable."

IF SO, THEN SO ARE YOUR INALIENABLE RIGHTS.
27 posted on 07/07/2006 11:20:17 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Are you saying that allegory is beyond God's capabilities?


28 posted on 07/07/2006 11:26:42 PM PDT by AntiGuv ("..I do things for political expediency.." - Sen. John McCain on FOX News)
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To: proudpapa
You would think that a boat made out of petrified wood would sink right away!

(chuckle)

29 posted on 07/07/2006 11:27:43 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (LINCOLN: "...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time")
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To: Central Scrutiniser
No one has ever told me how the reptiles made it back home, or how the monkeys swam back to S. America.

Bush's fault, silly!

40 days and nights of rain doesn't cause the world to flood. We've been having that in Boston, and it hasn't hardly flooded the streets.

But you're asking for people to think about the reality of a fairy tale story. I respect those who believe in God, though I don't share that belief, but it's when they expect me to swallow this stuff without question when I think about how many of them laugh at Muslim beliefs here. OK, like two of each animal surviving, including those from the Americas which hadn't been discovered and wouldn't be for centuries, plus a handful of people (their children apparently marrying their cousins to perpetuate the human race, and then somehow founding all of the ethnic types we know) and they somehow got all the animals to the various locations they needed to be in...

Ack, look what happens when you start thinking about it...

30 posted on 07/07/2006 11:28:48 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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31 posted on 07/07/2006 11:30:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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32 posted on 07/07/2006 11:31:46 PM PDT by rake (Okinawa!)
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To: mysterio
They look like petrified wood planks ...

Looks like an outcropping of shale to me.


33 posted on 07/07/2006 11:38:52 PM PDT by orionblamblam (I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am.)
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To: AntiGuv; Darkwolf377
What would you expect would be the result, in anthropological terms, of a worldwide flood? Perhaps you could expect to find a worldwide memory of such an event?

That's exactly what we find.

(Take a close look at the variety of geographies represented on the x-axis of the below chart.)


34 posted on 07/07/2006 11:41:11 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: orionblamblam
I don't know. I'd have to see it for myself. But it looks like wood planks to me from these two pics:




35 posted on 07/07/2006 11:43:35 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: Central Scrutiniser
Explain how the sloth got back to S. America or how the pandas

Does it not occur to people that the Bible was written by people who knew nothing of the existence of of other continents? That the 'all the world' flood covered their known part of the world...therefore, it was "all the world" to them?...

I suspicion the time is coming that the ARK will be "found" in the not too distant future...

Since WW1, it has been the subject of photos, 'discoveries', expeditions, articles, etc .

I wonder if, when man is ready enough to believe, God will let it be 'found' -

In the meantime, maybe He is protecting it from what would be a mad melee of faiths and countries fighting over it.

36 posted on 07/07/2006 11:44:25 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (LINCOLN: "...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time")
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To: mysterio
Ancient mariners surely didn't take off in a boat with no pottery, supplies, etc. I'm sure they are scouring the site for that kind of stuff, too.

I would imagine, since this was a boat and not a settlement, that the occupants would have taken every article with them down the mountain to wherever they first made a settlement. After all, they couldn't hike on down to a WalMart for replacements anytime soon...I wouldn't have left as much as a small bowl

37 posted on 07/07/2006 11:48:51 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (LINCOLN: "...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time")
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Catastrophism

38 posted on 07/07/2006 11:51:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Vicomte13

The Ararat Mountains are where the latest item was found. The other sites have when approaced discovered to be rock formations. No, the latest finding just might be it.


39 posted on 07/07/2006 11:52:40 PM PDT by GarySpFc (Jesus on Immigration, John 10:1)
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To: freedom44

Team believes it found Noah's Ark (In Iran)
WorldNetDaily.com | 6/30/06 | WorldNetDaily
Posted on 06/30/2006 11:26:43 AM EDT by DannyTN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1658435/posts

Noah’s Ark, Pieces Intact, Found
Koenig's International News | 6/14/06 | Bill Wilson
Posted on 06/15/2006 10:56:07 AM EDT by Michael_Michaelangelo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1649864/posts

and an oldie:

New photo resparks 'Noah's Ark mania'
WorldNetDaily.com | March 10, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern | Joe Kovacs
Posted on 03/10/2006 2:30:41 AM EST by Tim Long
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1593672/posts


40 posted on 07/07/2006 11:52:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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