True.
But in the case of the ark... shouldn't it have decomposed a loooong time ago, and therefore be unrecoverable? I mean, couldn't it've fallen off the mountain, and landed in a smashed heap in a puddle and rotted?
What impact would finding Noah's Ark have upon the world?
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True.
But in the case of the ark... shouldn't it have decomposed a loooong time ago, and therefore be unrecoverable? I mean, couldn't it've fallen off the mountain, and landed in a smashed heap in a puddle and rotted?
I would try and take it, using well-researched knowledge and facts and my trusty whip to avoid cunning traps, claiming that it belongs "in a museum" then start shooting swordsmen and Nazis in an attempt to find it.
I might even bring my dad along.
And I'd be there with my popcorn, front row seat lol
There were two of every snake species on Earth aboard. Just a warning.
The last I heard the Arc of the Covenant was in the possession of Lemba tribe in Zimbabwe, who call it the Ngoma Lungundu, or "Voice that Thunders."
Interestingly, the Lemba are genetically Cohens and practice and form of Judaism. They've had a few incidents with the Arc over the millenia (it exploded), so their current one is a rebuilt model from about 650 years ago.
ETA: a photo of the Ngoma Lungundu
Given the level of fakery in the area of Religious icons over the years it wouldn't be an accusation made without cause.
and if we wanted to really raise the stakes then we'd point out how often creationist claim that evidence of evolution such as fossils is faked.
So it's not a good argument to take.
And it would turn out to be a pan-dimensional spacecraft.
I would try and take it, using well-researched knowledge and facts and my trusty whip to avoid cunning traps, claiming that it belongs "in a museum" then start shooting swordsmen and Nazis in an attempt to find it.
I might even bring my dad along.
I think after it melted a bunch of people's faces off the government would assign some top men to research it, but they probably just stick it in a warehouse somewhere and forget about it.
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None, and why would they embrace Christianity? It would be more likely people would be moved to Judaism.
I don't think finding an Ark would prove that the Christian God exists any more than the finding of Troy proved that the Greek Gods existed.
I don't think it would be any great surprise to confirm that an event described in the bible is part of the historical record. Plenty of such are already known. It's the interpretation and context of the telling of those events which imposes a religious aspect, not the events themselves.
Beyond being one of the most remarkable archeological finds in millennia, probably not much.
Those, and I, who believe in one of the Abrahamic religions related to the Ark don't need affirmation of our faith.
Those who disbelieve will not change their minds based on a boat that's a few thousand years old.
Those, and I, who believe in one of the Abrahamic religions related to the Ark don't need affirmation of our faith.
Those who disbelieve will not change their minds based on a boat that's a few thousand years old.
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True. When I was a Christian, I never needed anything to affirm my faith. Faith has to come from within. If this scenario would have played out, I would have just shrugged and carried on with my life.
Now, I am an Atheist, and I believe the Bible to be a book of stories, mostly myths, handed down from generation to generation, and combined with other cultures and belief systems, to be what it is today. So the finding wouldn't even make me think specifically of Judaism/Noah's Ark, but it would include other such myths, including the Epic of Gilgamesh and other flood stories that have made their way into the fabric of our fabled oral history.
But the unicorns never mde it onto the Ark, they were too busy playing silly games.
