Hello and thanks for your good post.
-The longevity of Noah was neither a miracle nor the amount of the year and time was different from the present time and was naturally long and so far no evidence has been presented that it is impossible to achieve a long life. Of course, 1 given the medical evidence that you said, and it is true, this is strange and unlikely. But no reason has been given for its impossibility. If we look at the characteristics of Noah, we see that he was a very calm and grateful human being.
-I have already said in Noah's post that the oldest documents are related to the Sumerians and there is a cuneiform inscription, and I have seen the photo in the encyclopedia.
-No. 2 The Qur'an is not a copy of ancient documents or holy books. It is independent and it is real. Just keep in mind that the author and sender of all the holy books of the divine religions was one person. God- 3 Regarding Robert Ballard's remarks, you can refer to Turkish documents about Noah's Ark in Ararat. for example:
BOGUS "NOAH'S ARK FROM TURKEY EXPOSED AS A COMMON GEOLOGIC STRUCTURE
Robert Ballard's Black Sea Discoveries - Journal of New Science May 4, 2002 Page 13
As well as various research groups in Turkey for Noah's Ark
Good luck
Regarding the above highlights. First number 1 - you say that it's not impossible for someone (Noah) to live for 950 years, and you also said that “ no evidence has been presented that it is impossible “ … in modern times, say since 1900, there have been about 7 billion people living all around the world – can you point any of those billions of people who have lived to be 950 years old? Who do you personally know, who ever lived to several hundred years old? …
… I'll give you the answer – you don't know anyone who has lived to more than age 122 (that's the oldest ever known person where there are genuine records of their birth, life and death) … nobody on the entire planet knows of anyone who ever genuinely lived longer than 122 years. There are clear medical reasons why the human body wears out and why it cannot survive much longer than about 120 years, even under the most favourable circumstances.
You also said that it was not impossible for Noah to have been 950 years old. OK, so that is a claim from you – can you prove that it's not impossible for a person to live 950 years? It's YOUR claim, so where is your proof for that? Well, again I will save us all from your untrue answers – the only reason why you believe someone lived 950 years, is because it says that in an ancient holy book … but just because it says something apparently impossible in an ancient book, that does not make it true, does it! … as far as we know from all of modern science, it actually
is “impossible” for a human person to live 950 years … in modern times (say the last 100 years) we can check accurately with medical science whether such claims are true … we can check anyones genuine age … and as I said above the oldest genuine age is found to be a French woman who lived to 122 (she died in 1997) …
… you are talking about a person who is supposed to have been alive in 3000BC (!!), at a time when there was no modern science to check the fantastic claims that people often made. Why is it that all your claims of the seemingly impossible, such as Noah being 950 years old, all happend at a time when nobody could check whether it was ever true? … why is it that now, in modern times, where we
can actually check the truth of the claims that people make, we
never find that any such claims are true … the claims always turn out to be untrue ancient mythology and superstition. What is more likely – (a) that someone lives an apparently impossible 900 years, for which they can produce no evidence at all, or (b) that people in biblical and pre-biblical times were simply repeating untrue fables and superstitious myths? What is more likely, (a) that someones claim of fantastic miracles is actually true, but always with zero evidence and always where the claim cannot be checked, or (b) is it more likely that their claim was an untrue invention?
OK, so to summarise some of that -
1 It is YOUR claim that Noah lived 950 years, so it is YOU (not me or anyone else here) who must produce the evidence to prove your own claim … so where is your evidence to show that anyone could live 900 years? … you also said it was not impossible; so again you need to prove that statement – can you prove it's possible for someone to live 900 years?
2 Why do such religious claims of the fantastic, only ever occur in times where it could not be checked? Why does no such thing ever happen today where we
can check if the claim is true?
3 If I tell you that my uncle is 900 years old, but where you cannot check and where I produce no evidence, then is it more likely that my astonishing and seemingly impossible claim is true, or is it more likely that I am not telling the truth?
Regarding highlight number 2 – you say that the Koran is not a copy of any more ancient beliefs. But the Koran was apparently written about 1000 years AFTER the Old Testament bible & and about 600 years AFTER the new testament bible, and as far as I know everyone agrees with that (even Muslims). That is – the stories and the beliefs written in the Koran, appeared many hundreds of years, and even thousands of years, after the same stories and other very similar stories had already been believed & written about in much earlier books such as the bible … in fact similar religious stories had been written about for thousands of years even before the NT & OT bibles You cannot claim that the koran was new or unique when it was first written, because it was actually repeating many of the same religious stories that had already been known & preached for hundreds and thousands of years.
Also you just claimed that the koran and the bibles were “sent by God”. OK, so that is your claim which you are stating as a certain fact … so again; where is your evidence that any such God has ever existed? … it's your claim, the burden is entirely upon you when you make claims like that … so where is the evidence?
Finally, your third claim in highlight number 3 – The Journal of New Sciences, appears to be an extremely obscure publication produced in Tunisaia, and mainly intended for reports about agriculture and animals! ... I could not find the claimed paper by Ballard in May 2002 - please give a proper link to the actual paper, and quote the passage from the paper that you are caiming as evidence of Noah being 950 years old with an Ark still sitting somewhere on top of any mountain.
