On 04/27/2010 12:06 PM, 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.
Isn't this the second or third "Noah's Ark" found on Mount Ararat? The last one that achieved some fame had been petrified, as I recall, but the ribs and structure of the hull were clearly visible, despite the fact that they'd been turned magically into sandstone. Let's just step back for a moment, and consider that the Flood story is predicated on the inerrancy of the Old Testament. If the OT isn't inerrant then there's no reason whatsoever to think the Ark existed as anything other than a folk tale. On the other hand, if it *is* inerrant, then we can also take as true the fact that the rains lasted 150 days, not more, not less, and that *all* the high mountains were covered to a depth of 15 cubits. "Cubit" is a little hazy, but the point is the water level rose to a level *at* *least* as high above sea level as the highest mountain peak. In round numbers, Everest is 30,000 feet above sea level. So, the rain must have raised the sea level by 30,000 feet. Now let's suppose that everywhere on earth, *simultaneously*, there were torrential rains, and they just kept raining, without letup. A really torrential rain might drop an inch an hour. If it rained an inch an hour, all over the world, without letup, how long would it be before Everest was submerged? 30,000 feet * 12 inches = 360,000 hours, or 15,000 days, or 40 *years*. Oops, that's off by a bit from the 150 day number. Let's back up, and say it took 150 days. Then how "torrential" must the rain have been? It must have been 15,000/150 = 100 inches per hour. That's just under 2 inches *per* *minute*, everywhere on Earth, continuously, for 150 days and nights. Uh, huh..... So 'scuse me if I'm not too excited about another "discovery of the ark".
