Noah's Ark - Close to being found? What effects would it have?

Jourles

http://www.space.com/news/060309_ark_update.html

Personally, it makes no difference to me if the Ark is found or not. If it truly exists, then it would be one of the largest finds of the millenium. I cannot begin to fathom the wide ranging effects it would have upon billions of people on the earth. Would athiests become shaken? Would evolutionists be forced to revise their ideas? Of course, the ever elusive "Ararat anomoly" continues to stay hidden under a shroud of ice and snow. Only a lengthy expedition and excavation could ever uncover the real truth.

So how about it? Would the finding of the ark shake your spiritual foundation, whatever it may be? Strengthen it? If definitive proof of the ark was laid bare for the entire world to see, would it be possible for the rest of the book of Genesis to be true as well, the first few chapters in particular?

startingover

The bible's description of the ark is not a boat shape. Seems to me they are looking for the shape of a boat as that picture indicates.

So if they find something made out of wood shaped like a boat, how does that correlate with the bible?

funkyderek

Why did someone draw a red ellipse around part of that photograph? It seems to be highlighting a ridge or a cliff. Why would anyone think it's Noah's ark? Hell, why would any educated person believe that Noah's Ark ever existed?

Finally-Free

It certainly doesn't look like a very convenient location for Noah and the animals to disembark. I'm trying to picture a couple of elephants getting from there to Africa, and it's not pretty.

W

Jourles

Maybe God was the original inventor of kayaks?

freedomlover

I'll wait and see IF it is Noah's ark and then I'll cast an opinion.

EVEN IF it was the ark, how does that answer any questions as far as creationism is involved. How does that prove that the whole story of the flood, ark, and Noah are all true from the bible's interpretation. It doesn't.

I think if it was the ark, creationists would jump all over it. I say just because they found a big wood box does not PROVE creationism or evolution for that fact.

I think it would be big news for sure, but it wouldn't really change my views that drastically.

kid-A

Wow, theres some convincing evidence! Hey, I could use PhotoShop to draw a red circle around my backyard swimming pool and voila! The lost city of Atlantis!

I also heard they recently uncovered the skeletal remains of the Tooth Fairy and fragments of the Ten Commandments buried beside a frozen lump of dinosaur shit at the base of Mount Sinai!!

upside/down

Ark Shmark...

It's the complete lack of love, by so-called "representatives" of god that prove he's either a deaf / mute sadist, or he's completely preoccupied with something more important than mankind at the moment.

u/d(of the follows neither the shoe nor the gourd class)

IP_SEC

Here is another hopeful location for the ark.

alt

Ooops just another geographic anomaly

alt

Add me to the list of naysayers.

If they found an ark. That still doesnt prove anything other than a boat shaped pile of wood on a mountain.

Jourles

So if they find something made out of wood shaped like a boat, how does that correlate with the bible?

This has always been the WTS's argument as well. "Where was Noah planning to go? Why would he need a modern day boat shape?" The question is, if they find a wooden boat up there with a modern day shape, where is it from and how did it get up there? Would it simply be a huge coincidence to find another wooden boat on Mt. Ararat?

The bible doesn't specifically state whether or not the ark had to be a precise rectangle. It simply gave the dimensions. Now if Noah ended up making something curved, we may never know. But I am still curious to know whether people who firmly believe that the ark was a fairy tale would accept an authentic finding or would go on with their lives telling themselves that it still does not exist? *fingers in ears saying LALALALALALALALA*

Noah's Ark - Close to being found? What effects would it have?

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