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Noah's Ark found?

This is the same evangelical group that built this: http://www.noahsark.com.hk/eng/index.php

An 'educational' centre and hotel in HK in the form of an enormous replica of Noah's Ark.

I'm pretty sure one of the writers of the original article, Joyce Ng, is a girl I know through a mutual friend. Apparently they visited the Natural History Museum in London together, looked over the magnificence of the dinosaur exhibit, only to have Joyce comment: "Yeah the fossils look great. Too bad they're all fake. Yeah, they were all just planted there to fool people."
 
I don't believe in the story of Noah's Ark, but I would be very interested to see what a properly funded archeological investigation could find out about this.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it is some kind of modern hoax. It wouldn't be the first time some wacky fundamentalists lied to get publicity.
 
Of course they didn't find "Noah's Ark".

This will distract some of them for quite a while.

If it wouldn't hurt the animals, I'd love to pick a few fundies, put them in first, stuff in as many pairs of animals "of each kind", enough food and water, and then cork it up for the requisite period of time.

I don't think the fundies, if they survived, would be fundies any longer.
 
I always thoought if they found something up there it would be more likely to be some sort of temple dedicated to Noah....oddly enough in the shape of an ark
 
MG1962 said:
I always thoought if they found something up there it would be more likely to be some sort of temple dedicated to Noah....oddly enough in the shape of an ark
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What shape is an ark? Is it just a box, like the ark of the covenant?
 
The 'ark' was in the shape of a flying saucer, of course.

Ancient Astronauts, you know.

(No point in not combining woo, like arranging flowers, for fun and profit.)
 
Well that's just great, we'll never hear the end of it now. Of course there are many possible explanations, none of which will be heard by the Christian world. Perhaps there really was a guy named Noah who really did build an ark, for what reason is purely speculative. In any case, this is a great discovery and I can't wait to see what we learn from it.
 
MG1962 said:
I always thoought if they found something up there it would be more likely to be some sort of temple dedicated to Noah....oddly enough in the shape of an ark
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Not sure about the temple idea, the carbon dating on that thing makes it almost 3000 years older than the Bible itself. Although it is possible the creator of the ark was canonized as a hero of sorts, and that his legend influenced the writing of the scriptures.
 
I think that after the flood, and Noah and his family left the Ark, they would have used the wood in the boat to build stuff, so there wouldn't be an ark or remains of an ark to find, just some wooden houses if they were lucky enough to survive several thousand years.
 
Robo Sapien said:
Not sure about the temple idea, the carbon dating on that thing makes it almost 3000 years older than the Bible itself. Although it is possible the creator of the ark was canonized as a hero of sorts, and that his legend influenced the writing of the scriptures.
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True and that is a real possibility - However I would like to see some independent measurements of the wood first before accepting that date
 
Knock, knock, Noah, are you in there?

I would have expected to see a whole lot of animal dung.

Hoax
 
Brainache said:
What shape is an ark? Is it just a box, like the ark of the covenant?
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Yes only heaps bigger - and potentially less dangerous to carry around


Genesis 6:15 in the Bible tells us the Ark's dimensions were at least 135 meters long (300 cubits), 22.5 meters wide (50 cubits), and 13.5 meters high (30 cubits). That's 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high
 
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