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Noah's Ark - Fact Not Fiction
http://rsanoa.home.comcast.net/~rsanoa/ark_summary.htm ^ | Ray Anderson

Posted on 08/22/2008 9:59:31 AM PDT by Fennie

In 1943 during WW2, an army Sgt., Ed Davis, was working in Iran near the Turkish border, in charge of locals hired by our army to build a road through Iran to the Soviet border, which would carry supplies to the Soviets instead of flying them in.

In short, Ed did a tremendous favor for a little Kurdish village near Ararat. His workers were mostly Kurds and the chief of the village came to Ed and asked if he would like to see Noah's Ark. He said the summer on the mountain had been hottest in many years and the Ark was visible for the first time in years...


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1 posted on 08/22/2008 9:59:32 AM PDT by Fennie
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To: Fennie

bump for later.


2 posted on 08/22/2008 10:08:17 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: Fennie

Very interesting.
But with all the interest over the years, why hasn’t anyone, including the author of the article, taken some decent photographs? You’d think that would have been a priority if someone was going to spend all the time and money going to see if it is really Noah’s Ark. Instead, all we have are some very poor photos that remind me of UFO or Bigfoot sightings.


3 posted on 08/22/2008 10:08:27 AM PDT by XR7
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To: Fennie

Great, but who’s job was it to shovel all the............, never mind.


4 posted on 08/22/2008 10:08:51 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (If everyone stays home and no one votes will Congress disappear?)
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To: Fennie

We went through all this publicly 20 years ago, same pictures and everything. It was found to false.


5 posted on 08/22/2008 10:10:44 AM PDT by mikeus_maximus (In matters of style, swim with the current.; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.-- Thomas J)
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To: XR7
...why hasn’t anyone, including the author of the article, taken some decent photographs?

I think we both know the answer to that.

6 posted on 08/22/2008 10:11:39 AM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: Fennie

Thanks. Appreciate your search. Don’t need proof.


7 posted on 08/22/2008 10:11:51 AM PDT by wizr ("Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition." - Chaplain Maguire, Pearl Harbor, 1941)
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To: XR7

Artifacts of Christianity/Judaism have, as a rule, not been preserved, despite the fact that you can buy a forest full of “pieces of the cross” when visiting the area...


8 posted on 08/22/2008 10:12:28 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Fennie

Whats a Cubit?

9 posted on 08/22/2008 10:13:43 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: Fennie

As far as I know, armadillos don’t swim. Wonder how they made it to Texas from Mt. Ararat?


10 posted on 08/22/2008 10:13:56 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Vaquero

Am I on Candid Camera???


11 posted on 08/22/2008 10:16:05 AM PDT by txroadkill (Liberals believe that the only oppressed people in Cuba are the terrorist in GitMo)
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To: Vaquero

“Just make it rain for 40 days, and 40 nights, and wait for the sewers to back up.”


12 posted on 08/22/2008 10:16:53 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Fiji Hill
As far as I know, armadillos don’t swim. Wonder how they made it to Texas from Mt. Ararat?

Duh....Texas was spared, God would never punish his favorite State. It's in the Bible.

13 posted on 08/22/2008 10:23:00 AM PDT by txroadkill (Liberals believe that the only oppressed people in Cuba are the terrorist in GitMo)
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To: Fiji Hill

Oh, they swim. As ten year old kids, a friend and I hiked about a mile into some woods alongside a river in SE Oklahoma (Skunk ape territory), our second camp out without supervision. We set up camp with some lightweight cots and little else. In the middle of a sleepless moonless night, we heard something drop into the river just upstream and across the river from us. We heard loud splashing as the ‘thing’ slowly made it across the river. We couldn’t see a thing as the fire had died down, but within a minute or two I heard my buddy screaming like a little girl. Something was under his cot and bucking wildly trying to get out from under. I found a flashlight and was able to see that the ‘thing’ was a very wet armadillo. So, yes, I happen to know that an armadillo CAN swim.


14 posted on 08/22/2008 10:23:12 AM PDT by metalcor
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To: Fiji Hill

They walked


15 posted on 08/22/2008 10:23:28 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty; The Pendleton 8: We are not going down without a fight)
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To: RaceBannon

There’s also a fair amount of evidence for dispersion of animals and plants by rafting in the early post-flood era. Biogeography shows that flora and fauna tended to cross oceans via ocean currents from one shore to another. There would have been a great deal of floating plant material for several decades (depending on the tree species) after the flood.


16 posted on 08/22/2008 10:27:21 AM PDT by Liberty1970
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To: RaceBannon

There’s also a fair amount of evidence for dispersion of animals and plants by rafting in the early post-flood era. Biogeography shows that flora and fauna tended to cross oceans via ocean currents from one shore to another. There would have been a great deal of floating plant material for several decades (depending on the tree species) after the flood.


17 posted on 08/22/2008 10:27:23 AM PDT by Liberty1970
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To: txroadkill

Touché!


18 posted on 08/22/2008 10:28:22 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: XR7

The area is in contested territory from what I understand and no one can get in there without being shot at these days.

I don’t know the full details of who is contesting what, but that’s the last thing I heard about the region.


19 posted on 08/22/2008 10:29:33 AM PDT by Rick.Donaldson (http://www.transasianaxis.com - Please visit for latest on Russia/China/DPRK et al.)
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To: Fennie
I should point out that the Bible does not say the Ark landed on Ararat - only in the general region. Ararat itself is a post-flood volcano, so these claimed sightings cannot be accurate. There was a paper on this subject at the latest International Conference on Creationism a few weeks ago. (Sorry...)

During one of the warmer periods around a thousand years ago there may have been a monastery with wooden construction high on the slopes that later became engulfed in the glacier, which might explain some of the sightings and evidence.

20 posted on 08/22/2008 10:30:11 AM PDT by Liberty1970
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