At 12:06 PM 4/27/2010, Terry Blanton wrote:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2949640/Noahs-Ark-found-in-Turkey.html
THE remains of Noah's Ark have been discovered 13,000ft up a Turkish
mountain, it has been claimed.
A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say they have
found wooden remains on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.
They claim carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old
around the same time the ark was said to be afloat.
Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah's Ark Ministries International
research team, said: "It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark, but
we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it."
I like the picture with the article. How in the
world did Noah manage to pick up the penguins?
And keep them alive in such a warm climate?
(Answer: It was a *miracle,* dummy!)
And where are the dinosaurs? How many species
were on the ark? If I'm correct, these people
don't believe in evolution, so there would have
to be every species that currently exists, plus
all that there are fossil records for.
I can easily imagine someone collecting "all the
animals," meaning all the useful animals that
were handy, on an ark. But every species?
Of course, the researchers aren't responsible for
that picture. That was the Sun, that bastion of
careful, responsible and sober journalism.
I see that a number of commenters noticed the
issue about the number of species, and that
someone was defending the biblical account by
pointing out that "all the animals" could mean
just those that were local, and probably would
also say the same thing about the flood and about
the submerged mountains as being the same kind of
rhetorical device. Imagine telling a story to
your kids .... and that's what was done with this
story, for generation after generation....
One other teeny tiny problem. If radiocarbon
dating works for 4800 years, why doesn't it work
before that? Yeah, I know. God created it all in
situ, carbon isotope ratio, fossil record, etc.,
to test our faith. But, then, how do we know it
wasn't all created, like, say, yesterday, with
all our memories, etc.? And our faith or lack of same.
Answer: we don't know jack. But we can probably
rely on certain assumptions, like, I wasn't born
yesterday and, if you are reading this, neither were you.
