Noah's Ark - or just an old boat?

[naomi24]

A group of evangelical archaeologists claim to have found Noah's Ark. Your thoughts?

http://www.dailymail....-mountain-Turkey.html

[chakka35]

I'm having difficulty in working out which of you is talking tongue-in-cheek and which actually believes the absurd and totally impossible story of the Ark.

I'm told that down at Sonning they've found the actual boat used by Harris, George and J. And Sherlock Holmes' deerstalker has turned up in a cellar in Baker Street.

[Davethedog]

beso I never new the engineers thing do you have any sites I would love to read it.

And I would of been on deck rain or no rain - Didn't know about the window either, you can tell i'm a biblical scholar.

[WaldoMcFroog]

Isn't it amazing how when radiometric dating suggests the 'ark' is of about the right age it's a credible scientific tool, but when it suggests the Earth is not, in fact, 6,000 years old, all of a sudden it's completely wrong.

I have to wonder if they've considered whether carbon isotopes decayed faster 6,000 years ago..?

Twunts.

[sherminator]

Waldo Whats your picture of?

[DrFilth]

noah was doing ok till he took the woodworm aboard

[WaldoMcFroog]

It's Jesus, Sherminator. It's Jesus in a trenchcoat in a windtunnel.

Or maybe not.

[naomi24]

Gosh! You mean you don't believe it Chakka? Well, all the answers are here (if anyone can be bothered to read it), including what Noah did with the animal waste.

http://www.answersing...aring-for-the-animals

So now you know. ;o)

[webbo3]

I want to know why did'nt Noah swat those two mosquitoes. ?



Dave.

[birdie1971]

Maybe I'm being a bit thick here, but when I think of the Biblical Ark story I always end up back at the same question:

If God wanted to eradicate all of mankind except Noah and his immediate family, why didn't He just click His heavenly fingers and make the horrible people disappear?


And another question I ask myself is: Why did He instruct Noah to build and Ark (which apparently took him about 100 years) when He could have just made an Ark appear from nothingness in the blink of an eye?

Was the building of the Ark a test? And if so, what was it supposed to test?

Noah's joinery skills?

[naomi24]

Birdie, I've asked similar questions. For example, if God wanted the Israelites freed from slavery, why did he go through all the palaver of the plagues instead of just zapping them out of bondage?