Noah's Ark Discovered...Again?

[Christian A.]

What do you people think of this? I'm not sure what to think yet...

[Tea Ess]

At first glance, it didn't look particularly suspicious, but I haven't spent any time thinking or checking it any further. I may have seen some Biblical inconsistencies, but I have yet to look at those more closely.

I did notice, however, a couple of articles on the same website (possibly written by the same person?) suggesting that the Earth, and every other planet and moon in the solar system, is hollow and potentially inhabited by intelligent, superior beings.

So, that doesn't necessarily rule out the Noah's Ark article, but my inclination would be to consider it false for now. Possibly, if I spend more time on it and find some other information, I might believe it.

Edit: No, they were not by the same person. So I suppose it is possible the website just collects bizarre theories written by various people, with the potential for some of them to be true.

[Metal15]

Looks like an interesting article. It seems they did their research well(At least in my mind), why consider it false? Am I missing something?

[Jonathan]

why consider it false? Am I missing something?

Because this isn't the first time someone has come along and claimed they found the ark. We can know the general area, but the exact location will forever be uncertain.

[jelly]

Looks like an interesting article. It seems they did their research well(At least in my mind), why consider it false? Am I missing something?

It's always important to be skeptical when it comes to sensational claims, especially in cases like this where the sensationalists are evangelical Christians who really, really want it to be true. It's easy to invent massive conspiracy theories arguing that big organizations and mass media are intentionally hiding something from us. Those things sound dramatic and exciting, but there's no ground to make such claims. The writer of this article loses integrity by boldly claiming that it's real and there's no reason to think otherwise. He has no way of knowing that, and the fact that he wants it so badly just makes him seem overly desperate and too willing to embrace conspiracy theories. This is often how Evangelical Christians give themselves such a bad rap.

[bookworm]

We can know the general area, but the exact location will forever be uncertain.

You think it's impossible anyone will ever find it?

[Jonathan]

We can know the general area, but the exact location will forever be uncertain.

You think it's impossible anyone will ever find it?

No, I think it's impossible to know if what they've found is really it.

[bookworm]

We can know the general area, but the exact location will forever be uncertain.

You think it's impossible anyone will ever find it?

No, I think it's impossible to know if what they've found is really it.

I don’t understand. If an excavation uncovers a giant boat... what else would it be?

[DanP740]

One of the reasons we won't find it is why would you just abandon a gigantic mass of wood you can use to build new houses, use for firewood, etc.?

[TigerintheShadows]

As a matter of curiosity--given that the global flood happened a few thousand years ago, wouldn't the wood have decayed and decomposed by now anyway? Or am I revealing how little I know about decomposition?

[Jonathan]

If there were any wood left, it would have petrified by now.

And to answer the other question, they found what appears to be a single beam, and that beam could've belonged to anything, just like the half dozen other ancient 'beams' that have been discovered in the region.

[bookworm]

I wasn’t referring to this specific incident, I just mean if someone in the future happens to dig up an ark, I think we could assume, if details corroborate, that it’s the ark.