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Noah's Ark found?

Ugh. Shades of Ron Wyatt.

The Biblical dimensions of the ark put it as being smaller than an Arleigh-Burke class Destroyer, which I served on for six years. Two of every animal crammed into that? I don't think so.

We're honestly supposed to believe that one man and his family singlehandedly figured out how to do open-ocean sailing through trial and error?

What did they do for waste, sanitation, disease abatement, food spoilage, predator isolation, animal food, bacteria storage, ship righting...it goes on and on and on.

And there wasn't any world-covering flood. I feel sorry for the legitimate archaeologists that are going to have to go BACK to Ararat after all this time over a fat lot of nothing.
 
I'm still going with hoax. Mt Ararat is hardly K2, and countless thousands have climbed and trekked over it. How come it has never been "found" before.
 
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Ugh. Shades of Ron Wyatt.

The Biblical dimensions of the ark put it as being smaller than an Arleigh-Burke class Destroyer, which I served on for six years. Two of every animal crammed into that? I don't think so.

We're honestly supposed to believe that one man and his family singlehandedly figured out how to do open-ocean sailing through trial and error?

What did they do for waste, sanitation, disease abatement, food spoilage, predator isolation, animal food, bacteria storage, ship righting...it goes on and on and on.
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Goddidit....Duh.
And there wasn't any world-covering flood. I feel sorry for the legitimate archaeologists that are going to have to go BACK to Ararat after all this time over a fat lot of nothing.
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Well, it might turn out to be an old army barracks or trading post from some forgotten war. It could be interesting...
 
That wood is in surprisingly good condition, considering the thing has supposedly been weathering the elements for 4800-odd years.
 
The fundies have been "finding" the ark on Mt Ararat for decades now. Funnily enough, whenever they are short of a bit of ready cash in the coffers, suddenly...! One of them finds "evidence" of the ark.

The next step will be to solicit funds from their gullible sheeple for yet another "scientific expedition" by their leadership to Turkey to follow up on this momentous find. That they happen to have to go there via some of the best tourist destinations in Europe - Greek islands, Turkish Adriatic coast, etc - staying at the best resorts, is entirely irrelevant. ;) :)

L. Ron Hubbard showed them the way in milking the flock...
 
there were monasteries built on that so called holly mt
and it sounds like one has been found

hong kong = red china and is allied somewhat with iran
 
How many times can "the" Ark be found?

According to talk.origins, the Ark has been found 20 times before this. Most recently, Ron Wyatt "found" it in 1984 at the Durupınar site, Bob Cornuke "found" it in 2006 at the Alborz Mountains and so on... now Noah's Ark Ministries International "found" it on Mount Ararat in 2010.

Unsurprisingly, none of the discoverers have any formal education to tell a rock from petrified wood. However, they all ran tours/expeditions for Christian fundamentalists and sold books about their "findings."
 
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Well, one expert thinks it is a "crock."

Noah's Ark found? Not so fast
MSNBC
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 4:00 PM
by Alan Boyle


Web sites are buzzing over claims that remains from Noah’s Ark may have been found on Turkey’s Mount Ararat. The finders, led by an evangelical group, say they are "99.9 percent" that a wooden structure found on the mountainside was part of a ship that housed the Biblical Noah, his family and a menagerie of creatures during a giant flood 4,800 years ago.

But researchers who have spent decades studying the region – and fending off past claims of ark discoveries – caution that a boatload of skepticism is in order.

"You have to take everything out of context except the Bible to get something tolerable, and they're not even working much with the Bible," said Paul Zimansky, an archaeologist and historian at Stony Brook University who specializes in the Near East - and especially the region around Ararat, known as Urartu.

Cornell archaeologist Peter Ian Kuniholm, who has focused on Turkey for decades, was even more direct - saying that the reported find is a "crock."
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That article hurts my head. The leaps in logic are astounding.
 
Do you know that we can't find the communists or "Red Chinese" in Hong Kong if we look for them? You obviously have no idea as to the workings of Hong Kong or China. Hong Kong assuredly isn't "allied", even "somewhat" with Iran, and neither is China. And if you think this group of Fundies thinks of themselves as part of Mainland China, think again.
 
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