In Search of Noah’s Ark

MSNBC ^ | July 21st, 2003 | Eve Conant

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He found the Titanic. Now Robert Ballard hunts the quarry of a lifetime

July 21 issue — Ten thousand years ago, the Black Sea was a freshwater lake in the middle of a vast, low-lying basin. Its fertile valleys and lush pastures would have given Neolithic hunter-gatherers a perfect opportunity to make the leap to a more settled, agricultural society. But then disaster struck.

ABOUT 7,500 YEARS ago the ice age ended, the world’s climate warmed and the seas rose. The Aegean Sea breached a narrow strip of land, where the Strait of Bosporus is today, like a dam bursting. Seawater poured into the basin with the force of 200 Niagara Falls’, raising the water level six inches each day and sending the human settlers scurrying to the hills. The story of the Great Flood was told and retold, eventually in Genesis: “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life... the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.”

Did Noah’s Flood really happen this way and in this place? Some people think it did. In August, underwater explorer Robert Ballard intends to put this theory to the test. To do it, the 60-year-old Connecticut-based geologist—better known for his elaborately publicized ship-hunting escapades, including the discovery of the Titanic in 1985—is going to have to push the state of deep-sea technology. He’s designed a remotely piloted submersible, Hercules, which he claims can excavate for signs of human civilization at depths of 300 meters with a precision approaching what archeologists can muster with human hands.

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I'm not a big on literally believing the bible but this looks pretty interesting considering this Ballard guy is involved in this.

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

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"SPOTREP"???

[BibChr]

Jesus was big on literally believing the Bible, and I'm big on Jesus; so maybe the guy's on to something.

Dan
Biblical Christianity web site

[John H K]

Ballard is NOT looking for "Noah's Ark."

Not your fault of course. :-)

Prior to Ballard's FIRST Black Sea expedition, I noticed newspaper and website editors COULD NOT RESIST putting "Ark" in the titles as if Ballard was looking for the Ark just like the Titanic and Bismarck, even though it was clear from the articles there was no searching for or expectation of finding an Ark...again, I think it's the editors and not the authors doing it.

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I guess I just have a problem believing Noah would intentinally include stink beetles.

Seriously...

How do those who believe in Noah's Ark explain animals found only in certain parts of the world? (Australia and such).

[RightOnline]

Check out the documentary film "In Search of Noah's Ark". It's more than a bit dated now, but still extremely compelling.............including, no kidding, eyewitness accounts of the Ark in its resting place atop Mt. Ararat in Turkey. Don't laugh 'til you see the flick.

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I've seen that...I'm pretty sure. Isn't the local population proteting it from "Outlanders" or some such?

(And along those same lines, I think I've seen something over the past few years that claims the locals are finially going to allow people in to investigate their claims?)

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Oh...A couple more, if you're so inlcined...

What about the dinosaurs?

What about all those little hairy dudes from "Walking with Cavemen"?

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Explorer Who Discovered 'Titanic' Sets Out To Prove Noah's Flood Formed Black Sea

[BibChr]

DISCLAIMER: I swear, this is NOT a sarcastic question.

Have you ever read the entire Biblical account, Genesis 6-9, in full? It pretty well answers your questions.

As to dinosaurs... what problem do you see there?

Dan

[eyespysomething]

As to dinosaurs... what problem do you see there?

The time frame compared to the Bible. Before or after Noah? Stuff like that.

Sorry I jumped into this, but that has always been a question I have had as a recently saved soul.

[stuartcr]

That works......except for the millions that don't believe the bible.

[Ferret Fawcet]

"If anyone honestly thinks that every species of the world fit in a little boat, I have one word for you...."

MIRACLE!

God said it, that settles it- and that's good enough for me.

[BibChr]

Dinosaurs would be before, if that's what you mean, and likely represented on the ark.

Dan

[BibChr]

Did you have to take a class on jumping into discussions you don't understand with embarassingly irrelevant disruptions, or is that an innate ability?

Dan

[ASA Vet]

Supernatualists believe in magic?

[stuartcr]

Like most others here on freerepublic, I'm happy to say it's an innate ability. Why is it that you feel it necessary to talk to people with that tone?