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Noah Built More Than One Ark.

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It would explain how all the animals were saved, and it would explain why there are flood myths around the world. Search for "Noah's Ark, Discover the Science of Man's Oldest Mystery" on Amazon.
 
Ahhh... of course!! I can't believe I haven't thought of that before. Well, how can I not believe in the flood now!?
 
Welcome to the forum. More than one ark would explain a few things, but was there mention of more than one in the bible? As far as I remember, there was only one. But I'm open to listening.
 
moen333 said:
It would explain how all the animals were saved, and it would explain why there are flood myths around the world. Search for "Noah's Ark, Discover the Science of Man's Oldest Mystery" on Amazon.
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How many arks would Noah and his family have need built in order to accommodate two of every terrestrial species? How many people constructed this fleet? Are you claiming that these arks were smaller than the one commonly claimed or did Noah build a fleet of vessels that would be impossible to complete with ancient naval architecture?
 
OK, I was a wee bit sarcastic up there, sorry :) But seriously, do you have anything at all that would make this even close to credible? I mean I could claim right here and now that what really happened was that god gave Noah a shrinking ray machine, you know like the one in the film 'Honey I Shrunk the Kids'. That would also explain a lot, such as how Noah could fit all those animals on the one ark that is mentioned in the bible. But I would have to have something to show for then, that makes this theory more than just something I made up right now.
 
The Bible mentions only one ark.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 6&version=31;

If the Bible errs, then why go to all this trouble to add in extra bits to prove that the Bible is slightly-less-errant? Wouldn't it make more sense that the Noah story is just a re-telling of the Epic of Gilgamesh (which may have been influenced by a large local flood of the Fertile Crescent in ~2900 B.C.), picked up by the Israelites during their time in Babylon?

Ockham's razer, please.
 
Noah also had a dehydrating animal compactor that was able to re-animate the animals after the floods subsided ....

Charlie (must add water) Monoxide
 
When thinking about life on the ark, I've often thought about who would have cleaned out the grizzly bear and rhino stables, how they popped over to the other side of the world to gather up the weasels and yaks, down to Oz for the kangas, all that kinda stuff.

So do they think maybe Noah built 2000 arks, staffed them and sent them to every corner of the world and recovered every one of the 50,000 species of beetle? etc. etc. etc. Yeesh.
 
Noah's ark can be genetically disproved anyway.

No animals have genetics that are traced back to just two single animals a few thousand year ago, but according to this legend, they should all come from a single pair.

Not only that, but its extremely unlikly that the animals would survive the inbreeding, son's would have to breed with daughters etc. It would take many many generations because before there would be a high rate of non aborting non deformed babies. If 'god' had his hand in this my didn't he just conceive the females magically, then only 1 of each animal be needed, or he could just create them again? The story makes no sense no matter which way you look at it.
 
Well, you have to admit: This ground-breaking hypothesis would at least explain why the ark was found multiple times already.
 
On a related note, I have always wondered why God had to flood the world anyway. Couldn't he just exterminate the offending organisms with the touch of a button or something ?
 
dacium2007 said:
Noah's ark can be genetically disproved anyway.

No animals have genetics that are traced back to just two single animals a few thousand year ago, but according to this legend, they should all come from a single pair.

Not only that, but its extremely unlikly that the animals would survive the inbreeding, son's would have to breed with daughters etc. It would take many many generations because before there would be a high rate of non aborting non deformed babies. If 'god' had his hand in this my didn't he just conceive the females magically, then only 1 of each animal be needed, or he could just create them again? The story makes no sense no matter which way you look at it.
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Actually, it was only the unfit to eat that went in pairs. There were more than one pair of all the Kosher animals. Of course, how many of those Kosher animals got off the ark isn't told.
 
wollery said:
Actually, it was only the unfit to eat that went in pairs. There were more than one pair of all the Kosher animals. Of course, how many of those Kosher animals got off the ark isn't told.
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The further problem here is that God did not even define which animals were kosher or not (clean or unclean) until hundreds of years later anyway - when Moses came down from the Mountain.

Besides most inerranists claim that Noah et all were still vegetarians until the fludde abated, and God then said "let there be meat"

Norm
 
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The op refers to a book. Highlights from the authors blog.
I turned my satellite imagery analysis skills toward earth in the hopes of finding signs of ancient civilizations. This search was made possible by Google, where high resolution images of the entire earth had become freely available and easy to navigate.

My knowledge of the bible and biblical history is limited, nevertheless spotting what appeared to be a manmade arc in Turkey did make me briefly think of Noah's Ark due to the location and the similarity of the two words

Next to the 12-mile diameter arc feature in Turkey, I soon discovered a town with a name ending in "kayak". The term kayak is of course familiar to most as, "a covered boat", just as the Ark is described as a covered boat.

Now, after finding two loose connections to the biblical ark, I was facing a conundrum. For me the literal interpretation of the Noah story in the bible defies all logic -- how could one man, even with today's technology, build a boat big enough to house and feed all the world's millions of species for 7 months or longer, and then after the flood transport them back across the oceans to their various continents?

Although the evidence so far was tenuous and speculative, it was enough for curious me to embark on a serious search for more evidence to back up my theory. This search soon led to the discovery of an arc at the geographical center of North America, which made me curious about the other geographical centers and led to the discovery of arc plateaus at the center of Asia, Australia, and Africa.

My book details this information, as well as a lot of other evidence that my curious nature tracked down. I honestly don't know if anyone reading this book will believe my theory of multiple Noah's Arks.
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A 12 mile arc sounds (in english) like Ark. Heck, what more proof do you need ?
 
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fishkr said:
When thinking about life on the ark, I've often thought about who would have cleaned out the grizzly bear and rhino stables, how they popped over to the other side of the world to gather up the weasels and yaks, down to Oz for the kangas, all that kinda stuff.

So do they think maybe Noah built 2000 arks, staffed them and sent them to every corner of the world and recovered every one of the 50,000 species of beetle? etc. etc. etc. Yeesh.
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A better question - who was the cannibal on board - Kuru, or dancing sickness, from New Guinea can only be passed on by eating someone already infected.
 
I remember a cartoon with the Dinosaurs on Ark 2. Anyone got a link.
 
Here's a related question: Didn't anyone else, besides Noah, have a boat? I mean, if it was starting to flood, and I had a boat, I think I would ride it out in that.
 
grayman said:
Here's a related question: Didn't anyone else, besides Noah, have a boat? I mean, if it was starting to flood, and I had a boat, I think I would ride it out in that.
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Good point. Surely there were other boats available to some. Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmm.......
 
El Greco said:
On a related note, I have always wondered why God had to flood the world anyway. Couldn't he just exterminate the offending organisms with the touch of a button or something ?
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Becuse God has never gone down the quick and painless route for disposing of those he didn't like. Why go for a quick "poof" when you can enjoy a bit of screaming, running about, begging for mercy (especially the pleading of parents for their innocent children) and general mayhem. Also I don't think he could pass up the oppurtnity for a few "drowning not waving" jokes.
 
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