Do you think Noah's ark exists?

Ok, the reason why I don't think it exists is because I don't think a massive flood like the bible told about was possible to happen. If you think about it both geologically and meteorololgically, it seems highly improbable that all the land could be covered in water. For it to rain for forty days and forty nights non stop, something terribly wrong with the earth's atmosphere would have to cause it to dump every drop of water vapor in the clouds, and then keep the planet cool enough to prevent the water from evaporating back into the sky. Plus, even with all the polar ice caps melted, all the land still wouldn't be covered by water. Let's also not forget that it would have to be raining everywhere at once to flood the entire planet. As far as far-fetched bible stories goes, this one is pretty far-fetched.

I'm sure it did at one time. That doesn't mean it's still intact today.

It exists in folklore and in the imaginations of countless people.

Nope. I think that there could have been consistent rain and a flood that followed at the location of the original writing. Just my guess anyways...

During which he had to manage the logistics of finding 2 of every creature on the planet, + medical and food supplies topped off by making sure he didn't put the lions in the same place as the Zebra's etc. Oh what a nightmare…

Saying that I actually quite liked the story as a kid. It was probably one of the only ones I can remember mind you and – for a bit – believed…

Yes, gargantuan ship that carried 2 of every animal constructed by a single senior man.

Its obvious it existed.

according to the ancient astronauts theory i watched on the history channel a few days ago, noahs ark was some kind of mobile dna bankNintendoNite

I really wish the History Channel would stop presenting itself as, well, a channel about history, while airing baseless, speculative crap like that.

In the sense that the events of Genesis chapters 6-8 are a literal historical recollection of events that really happened, and in the sense then that one may find the ark described therein... no.

No.

If it did, the wood definitely would have totally eroded by now.

[QUOTE="NintendoNite"]according to the ancient astronauts theory i watched on the history channel a few days ago, noahs ark was some kind of mobile dna bankworlock77

I really wish the History Channel would stop presenting itself as, well, a channel about history, while airing baseless, speculative crap like that.

[QUOTE="NintendoNite"]according to the ancient astronauts theory i watched on the history channel a few days ago, noahs ark was some kind of mobile dna bankworlock77

I really wish the History Channel would stop presenting itself as, well, a channel about history, while airing baseless, speculative crap like that.

[QUOTE="NintendoNite"]according to the ancient astronauts theory i watched on the history channel a few days ago, noahs ark was some kind of mobile dna bankworlock77

I really wish the History Channel would stop presenting itself as, well, a channel about history, while airing baseless, speculative crap like that.

Even if it isn't 100% historically sound, I find shows like that to be interesting. It gets my imagination going, which is a good thing.

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[QUOTE="NintendoNite"]according to the ancient astronauts theory i watched on the history channel a few days ago, noahs ark was some kind of mobile dna bankPirate700

I really wish the History Channel would stop presenting itself as, well, a channel about history, while airing baseless, speculative crap like that.

It's all about pandering to the lowest common denominator to bring in ratings.

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I really wish the History Channel would stop presenting itself as, well, a channel about history, while airing baseless, speculative crap like that.

worlock77

It's all about pandering to the lowest common denominator to bring in ratings.

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[QUOTE="NintendoNite"]according to the ancient astronauts theory i watched on the history channel a few days ago, noahs ark was some kind of mobile dna bankShad0ki11

I really wish the History Channel would stop presenting itself as, well, a channel about history, while airing baseless, speculative crap like that.

Even if it isn't 100% historically sound, I find shows like that to be interesting. It gets my imagination going, which is a good thing.

It's possible. It's entirely possible that region experienced a massive flood around the time of Noah's Ark. I believe quite a few cultures during that time have a story about a massive flood. I don't believe it was a worldwide flood, nor do I think the Ark had two of every animal, but I believe something to that effect could have existed. I also believe there was a massive flood around that period in that region.

I like the burger idea.

Anyway, they did find pieces of wood that is believed to be pieces of the ark. I guess because it was on an island? I think I heard about them finding a boat but I don't know if it's fake. For all we know it could be anything.

Could be that water was that high back in the day and someone had a boat that crashed or washed away. Now I sound dumb because I have no idea what I am talking about.

Considering that the story was more of an allegory than anything else, it was probably based on the local flood that hit the south Mesopotamia.

It's possible. It's entirely possible that region experienced a massive flood around the time of Noah's Ark. I believe quite a few cultures during that time have a story about a massive flood. I don't believe it was a worldwide flood, nor do I think the Ark had two of every animal, but I believe something to that effect could have existed. I also believe there was a massive flood around that period in that region.

MystikFollower

I think that is certainly a possibility; I tend to believe that much if not all of the Old Testament was inspired by events that actually happened, although certainly not that the way in which the Old Testament tells the stories is literally what happened.

As much ridicule as there is, there actually is some historical evidence that something like a great flood might have occured, and that great flood might have inspired the story of Noah's Ark. Don't trust me, trust Cracked.com, which everyone does:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18649_5-ridiculous-ancient-beliefs-that-turned-out-to-be-true.html

I also took a class on the Old Testament on college and my teacher confirmed this, scientists now believe that some great flood that inspired the story of Noah's Ark actually happened.

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It's possible. It's entirely possible that region experienced a massive flood around the time of Noah's Ark. I believe quite a few cultures during that time have a story about a massive flood. I don't believe it was a worldwide flood, nor do I think the Ark had two of every animal, but I believe something to that effect could have existed. I also believe there was a massive flood around that period in that region.

GabuEx

I think that is certainly a possibility; I tend to believe that much if not all of the Old Testament was inspired by events that actually happened, although certainly not that the way in which the Old Testament tells the stories is literally what happened.

That I agree with. I think it would be an absolutely amazing discovery if they actually found the Ark and it matched the Bible's description.

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It's possible. It's entirely possible that region experienced a massive flood around the time of Noah's Ark. I believe quite a few cultures during that time have a story about a massive flood. I don't believe it was a worldwide flood, nor do I think the Ark had two of every animal, but I believe something to that effect could have existed. I also believe there was a massive flood around that period in that region.

GabuEx

I think that is certainly a possibility; I tend to believe that much if not all of the Old Testament was inspired by events that actually happened, although certainly not that the way in which the Old Testament tells the stories is literally what happened.

Pretty much my thoughts as well.

As much ridicule as there is, there actually is some historical evidence that something like a great flood might have occured, and that great flood might have inspired the story of Noah's Ark. Don't trust me, trust Cracked.com, which everyone does:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18649_5-ridiculous-ancient-beliefs-that-turned-out-to-be-true.html

I also took a cIass on the Old Testament on college and my teacher confirmed this, scientists now believe that some great flood that inspired the story of Noah's Ark actually happened.

Samurai_Xavier

Ehhhh, I usually like Cracked, but that article is stretching it way too much for me in its attempts to find facts that fit ancient beliefs.

Yes, gargantuan ship that carried 2 of every animal constructed by a single senior man.

Its obvious it existed.

CosmicZombie

I think it's pretty easy to wipe out a race. Couple billion gone could cause a major impact.

There wouldn't be enough genes to go around and people would die easily from not being immune to certain things. So the whole ark thing and saving animals is kinda pointless.

In the literal sense, that a gigantic ship was built and housed two of every animal, no. But I'm open to the possibility that the story was inspired by events that did actually happen. LZ71

It could well have been heavily embellished over years - replace 'world' with 'village' and 'all of the wolds animals' with 'a couple of cows and 6 goats' in the story and its probably a little closer to the truth...

hmmm...perhaps...there was a large boat built because of flooding...problems...but, no. I don't realy believe any of those bible stories.

No. That story probably evolved from older flood legends. It's similar to how the concepts of hell and Satan have evolved.

[QUOTE="LZ71"]In the literal sense, that a gigantic ship was built and housed two of every animal, no. But I'm open to the possibility that the story was inspired by events that did actually happen. poptart

It could well have been heavily embellished over years - replace 'world' with 'village' and 'all of the wolds animals' with 'a couple of cows and 6 goats' in the story and its probably a little closer to the truth...

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[QUOTE="LZ71"]In the literal sense, that a gigantic ship was built and housed two of every animal, no. But I'm open to the possibility that the story was inspired by events that did actually happen. LJS9502_basic

It could well have been heavily embellished over years - replace 'world' with 'village' and 'all of the worlds animals' with 'a couple of cows and 6 goats' in the story and its probably a little closer to the truth...

Yeah that's true - it's all relative I guess. Perhaps a resident of a flooded village saved all of his/the villages livestock by getting them on a boat. Not inconceivable... Who knows - I failed religious education dismally at school so who am I to comment...

as we say here on the internet. pics or it didnt happen

it really doesn't make sense at all.. there isn't enough water on the planet to cause that kind of flood, the ark wasn't big enough to hold all of those animals (going by the Bible's description), and even if it was big enough, they would have needed 40 days worth of food for every single animal (i doubt even the largest ships of today could hold that much). and getting that much food would require weeks, if not months to accumulate. they didn't have the technology to preserve food for that amount of time.

there are simply too many holes in the story to believe it is possible by any logical means. even many priests and church officials see it as more of a symbolic story that isn't meant to be taken literally.

if there is someone who honestly believes that one man (or family?) built a ship that big, accumulated that much food, was able to preserve that food, got 2 of every single animal onto that ship, and survived for over a month before landing on top of a mountain, and then having each species repopulate its numbers (which is also impossible because there wouldn't be enough animals to keep the carnivores alive long enough to give birth. and most of the plant life would have drowned, giving the herbivores no food)... i wouldn't know how to react

Ok, the reason why I don't think it exists is because I don't think a massive flood like the bible told about was possible to happen. If you think about it both geologically and meteorololgically, it seems highly improbable that all the land could be covered in water. For it to rain for forty days and forty nights non stop, something terribly wrong with the earth's atmosphere would have to cause it to dump every drop of water vapor in the clouds, and then keep the planet cool enough to prevent the water from evaporating back into the sky. Plus, even with all the polar ice caps melted, all the land still wouldn't be covered by water. Let's also not forget that it would have to be raining everywhere at once to flood the entire planet. As far as far-fetched bible stories goes, this one is pretty far-fetched.

JustPlainLucas

according to the ancient astronauts theory i watched on the history channel a few days ago, noahs ark was some kind of mobile dna bankNintendoNite

I really wish the History Channel would stop presenting itself as, well, a channel about history, while airing baseless, speculative crap like that.

I think that its a story to teach people of starting over

At one point yes, but with what they used to build it I'm sure it wouldn't sustain to our date.

There was probably a large flood which to the people the story was based on/written by could've seemed like the whole world being flooded, with some guy trying to save all that was valuable in his area. So, yeah, I think there was A Noah and AN Ark, just not a Noah and an Ark fitting the exact details of the famous story.

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Ok, the reason why I don't think it exists is because I don't think a massive flood like the bible told about was possible to happen. If you think about it both geologically and meteorololgically, it seems highly improbable that all the land could be covered in water. For it to rain for forty days and forty nights non stop, something terribly wrong with the earth's atmosphere would have to cause it to dump every drop of water vapor in the clouds, and then keep the planet cool enough to prevent the water from evaporating back into the sky. Plus, even with all the polar ice caps melted, all the land still wouldn't be covered by water. Let's also not forget that it would have to be raining everywhere at once to flood the entire planet. As far as far-fetched bible stories goes, this one is pretty far-fetched.

Taegukki

I swear I saw some history channel shows supporting Noah's Arc. And being a devout Christian, I believe it happened.

Yeah It must of happened. That could explain why similar fossils are found in different continents (Disproves evolution). I don't buy into the science crap that schools teach us.

You're debating why and how something could happen in the book of the Bible that says God SPOKE the universe into creation. You think he has a problem making it rain for 40 days?Taegukki