Noah's Ark found?

[colmquinn]

A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers said on Monday they believe they may have found Noah's Ark - four thousand metres up a mountain in Turkey.

The team say they recovered wooden specimens from a structure on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey that carbon dating proved was 4 800 years old, around the same time the ark is said to have been afloat.

"It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's Ark but we think it is 99,9 percent that this is it," Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker and member of the 15-strong team from Noah's Ark Ministries International told AFP.

The structure had several compartments, some with wooden beams, which were believed to house animals, he said.

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Its not April 1st or anything again is it?

[Mark]

I once heard of some folks claming to have found Christ's cross as well back when I was in high (christian) school. I'll need a bit more proof that an old wooden frame on top of a mountain, with MAYBE some animal droppings on it.

[Nickswitz]

Yeah, as much as I believe it could be it, 99.9% is moronic to say, I would say around 50/50 at the most.

[Sionnach Glic]

Hasn't Noah's Ark been found like half a dozen times by now?

So they found the remains of a really old wooden structure up a mountain. Big woo. Call me when someone provides evidence of it even being a boat, and the research is peer-reviewed by people who aren't "evangelical explorers".

I once heard of some folks claming to have found Christ's cross as well back when I was in high (christian) school. I'll need a bit more proof that an old wooden frame on top of a mountain, with MAYBE some animal droppings on it.

I've not heard of people claiming to have found the full cross itself, but enough "splinters of the true cross" have been found to build something like three and a half full-sized crucifixes. And then there's the 18 or so different churches that all claimed to simultaneously be in possession of Jesus' foreskin during the Rennaisance era.

[Captain Seafort]

I once heard of some folks claming to have found Christ's cross as well back when I was in high (christian) school.

Bits of the True Cross have be popping up here and there for the last 2000 years. There's probably enough to build Noah's Ark out of them by now.

[Sionnach Glic]

And enough nails from the cross the build it with as well.

[Lighthawk]

A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers said on Monday they believe they may have found Noah's Ark - four thousand metres up a mountain in Turkey.

The team say they recovered wooden specimens from a structure on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey that carbon dating proved was 4 800 years old, around the same time the ark is said to have been afloat.

"It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's Ark but we think it is 99,9 percent that this is it," Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker and member of the 15-strong team from Noah's Ark Ministries International told AFP.

The structure had several compartments, some with wooden beams, which were believed to house animals, he said.

Full article here

Its not April 1st or anything again is it?

I'm curious, don't most christian "scientists" take issue with carbon dating due to the fact that it tends to tell us things like "the world is billions of years old" and such?

[Mark]

As I recall, they clamed to have found the ENTIRE cross still in one piece, nails and all, still stained with his blood. I pointed out this was ludicrous as they'd have likely removed the nails to get Jesus off the blasted thing. Don't get me started on the 2000 year old bloodstains on the wood either.

Result? 3 days detention.

[Mark]

Lighthawk....not when it works FOR them

[Sionnach Glic]

It's only wrong if it supports the atheists.

[Sionnach Glic]

As I recall, they clamed to have found the ENTIRE cross still in one piece, nails and all, still stained with his blood. I pointed out this was ludicrous as they'd have likely removed the nails to get Jesus off the blasted thing. Don't get me started on the 2000 year old bloodstains on the wood either.

Result? 3 days detention.

[Lighthawk]

Mmmm, hypocracy.

[Mark]

For all of you who don't know, I spent nearly an entire semester total in detention at the Christian High School I attended for asking questions.

[Lighthawk]

For all of you who don't know, I spent nearly an entire semester total in detention at the Christian High School I attended for asking questions.

I take it the faculty didn't appreciate you not falling in line with the brainwashed sheep eh?

[Mikey]

Hell, the Holy Grail is supposedly (simultaneously, strangely enough) at Glastonbury; the Powell house in Wales; Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh; and near Stellarton in Nova Scotia - the latter is especially odd, since it was allegedly brought there by the same guy who had it interred at Rosslyn.

It's only wrong if it supports the atheists. folks with a modicum of common sense.

Amended for inclusion. And yes, carbon dating has been used to support the Nova Scotia "theory" above.

For all of you who don't know, I spent nearly an entire semester total in detention at the Christian High School I attended for asking questions.

I'd imagine there would be a fair bit of disagreement between Christian educators and a Jewish student.