re: Noah's Ark found?

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The myth of Noah's Ark was plagiarized from at least 2 other sources 100s of years before it appeared in any Christian context.

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1) The story of the flood appears in the OT, a Judaic record and religious text which leads to Christianity but pre-dates it by several thousand years.

2) The story is not necessarily plagiarized. It is a story that is common to multiple cultures in all areas of the world. The fact that it is a well known story in all these cultures ought to be a hint that it just might be more than a fabricated myth.

3) The altered names are quite easily explained by the different languages in which the story appears. The English name, John, is Ian and Scotland, Johann in Germany, Ivan in Russia, and has other variants I won't take the time to list here. In Christianity, the name Jesus appears in Hebrew and Aramaic as Yeshua, in Greek as Isous, in German as Jesu, etc.

Your statement fails to provide any cause for doubt regarding the authenticity of the event or the records that exist of its occurrence. If you want to believe it's a myth, then that's your right. However, multiple records of the event throughout many cultures, as well as geological evidence indicate that a world-wide flood did indeed occur. But I won't taunt you for burying your head in the sand in order to alleviate your conscience as you choose to live a life with no guidance or hope.

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Maybe you don’t seek proof because the proof is all around you and you take it for granted or you just don’t think about all the proof that exists.

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You seem very confident that this proof you believe exists is the doing of the God you believe in, please tell me how it's not the proof of the multitude of other Gods that other people believe in

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One day..whether you want believe it or not..EVERY knee will bow..and every tongue will confess..that HE is Lord.

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slapnuts74

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Thanks for your input slapnuts74

I think the story of Noah is more about faith than a flood. God told him to build this ark in a region that was in drought for years.
The entire time Noah was building the Ark, which took a very long time, he was being ridiculed by everyone. He questioned his own faith many times but had enough to heed God's word and build the Ark.

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Noah’s ark is a parable

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Over 300 people downvoted this. I learned this in Catholic school. One day we were on this subject in religion class and people started question questions...

"How did he feed the animas?"

"You telling me the Lions and Tigers didn't eat the deer?"

And I remember the teacher getting frustrated and saying "Look, these are just parables to teach lessons".

I'm sure Noah was able to get his hands on some giant saws to cut down trees that didn't exist in his area to build a carnival cruise ship. Just a heads up, the bible, and this discovery claiming to find the ark claim that the ark was 157m long, which is just laughable to think some desert dweller built a fricking cruise ship 4,000 years ago in an area that literally does not have enough wood to even construct that, not to mention the fact that it would probably take him decades to build it.
The largest wooden ship ever made was in 1909, and it was 140m long. It weighed 4,000 tons and didn't even have the house like structure built on top of it like Noah's Ark claims to have. That ship made in 1909 didn't last very long b/c it was ridiculously too big and couldn't handle any type of rough seas, constantly having issues with boards buckling and water getting inside the boat.

But sure, Noah built the largest wooden ship known to man, 4000 years ago, in an area of the world that barely has any trees.

Where they think they found the ark, is almost 17,000ft above sea level. Think about how much water would need to flood a gigantic area for a boat to be floating around at 17,000ft above sea level. It's not even physically possible for that happen. IF....IF all the ice on the earth melted the global sea level would rise about 230 feet. There isn't enough rain water that can be dumped in that area and also be contained long enough to allow water to rise 17,000ft above sea level, or some tsunami wave or whatever other method of water inundating the area to make that possible.


How anyone can believe this story the way it is told is baffling to me. Your refusal of any common sense or logic amazes me. And I know you'll come back with that catch all "have to have faith" excuse.

I'm not saying a local flood didn't happen, or that some man from 4000 years ago was able to ride that flood out on a make shift raft, or maybe his own personal river boat, saving people and livestock, and his story was passed down through generations, but to believe the fairy tale details that is told in the bible of Noah's Ark is just plain stupid.

It's a ridiculously embellished story being told where it's sole purpose is to teach a lesson, not to be taken literally. How you want to interpret that lesson is up to you.

Everybody should appreciate that USL was once a hotbed of Genesis flood thought. My AI agent wrote me a nice summary...

During his tenure at Southwestern Louisiana University (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) from 1951 to 1956, Henry M. Morris served as Head of the Civil Engineering Department. His contributions included:
- Academic Leadership: Morris played a key role in shaping the civil engineering curriculum and mentoring students in hydraulic engineering.
- Research & Publications: He continued his work in hydraulic engineering, which later influenced his writings on flood geology.
- Early Creationist Thought: While at Southwestern Louisiana, Morris began developing ideas that would later be foundational to his creationist theories, culminating in The Genesis Flood (1961).

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You do understand that not every animal on Earth is in one place on the planet to be loaded onto a boat?

I won't even list out the other numerous things that simply cannot happen due to laws of physics, etc.

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One basic question that I always had:

Was the flood freshwater or saltwater?

Because freshwater and saltwater life adapted to handle osmotic pressure differently.

If the flood had enough volume to cover the peakes of the highest mountains (Genesis 7:18–20), the water would have killed all marine life if the flood was freshwater or vice versa...

I am just telling you my experience. A lot of people will disagree and that's okay. We are all adults, I don't see a problem discussing this.