Heh.
What impact would finding Noah's Ark have upon the world?
- Thread starter Lookingglassman
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Yet I will keep fighting, one mind at a time. And one day... we will win. 
You mean, except for the Catholic Church that makes it a focus of pilgrimages and devotion?
Not really. Some sources mention "a cloth", but there is no way to link it specifically to the Shroud of Turin.
You mean, like Jesus with short curly hair? Or Jesus clean-shaven? Or Jesus with blond hair? Early church iconography is all over the place.
Well, if you have heard it, it must be true.
Doubts cast by Catholic Church researchers. Shocker!
So the usual jump from "we don't know" to "it must be God!". Not really surprising. I don't know who chipped the bumper of my car yesterday. It must have been God! Damn it, can't He drive straight anymore?
And what about the fact that the image in the verso is a few inches longer than the recto. Like the TARDIS is bigger on the inside, Jesus was longer in the backside?
Maybe you should. I for one could use a good laugh.
Not to mention the time and attention that the media dedicates to it. They used to keep it in the open all the time, but then they realized that they could rise the profits (both in money and in attention) by carefully controlled "shows".
To all of that...all I can say...is just...one...big...
After reading your responses and then noting your location, I am not the least bit shocked of your attitude and position. Oklahoma is, after all, the Buckle of the Bible Belt, where people are downright convinced that the Bible is the source for the Constitution of the United States. The the State Legislature just passed a law allowing the Bible to be taught as an elective, as the supporters of the bill firmly believe the 10 Commandments are the basis of all US law.
Basically, people here gravitate to Sarah Palin and her "all that science malarkey stuff" comments.
What if they find unicorns on the Ark?
GodThingFormerly
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Then it would be safe to conjecture that Mrs. Noah was an unusually contented woman.
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There's more chance of finding a Mayan or Aztec Pyramid in Bosnia.
Then why are you so upset that people here cast doubt on the Noah myth? Are you not aware the the Christian Bible is *not* the oldest written historical record, and that many of its premises are actually borrowed from other historical myths?
Please don't give Dan Brown any ideas...
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Then why are you so upset that people here cast doubt on the Noah myth? Are you not aware the the Christian Bible is *not* the oldest written historical record, and that many of its premises are actually borrowed from other historical myths?
Not only that, but Ryan's own signature links to the very type of Christianity that you mentioned earlier.
Ryan's Signature said:
. Not even close when it comes to me, buddy.
Then why are you so upset that people here cast doubt on the Noah myth? Are you not aware the the Christian Bible is *not* the oldest written historical record, and that many of its premises are actually borrowed from other historical myths?
Not only that, but Ryan's own signature links to the very type of Christianity that you mentioned earlier.
Ryan's Signature said:
I know his type -- I've lived in Oklahoma for the past 17 years. In some ways, this State is in the 21st Century, while in others it is still suck in the mid-19th.
Great answers. I think it would be a great find, but as some have stated I dont believe too many people will change their beliefs based on it. I gotta admit I have studied the supposed ark for years, but what gets me are all the "photographs" out there of it. They are all grainy or hard to tell exactly what is there. If we got satellites that can read a newspaper then surely they could have taken a decent photo of something larger than a newespaper.
If the Ark does exist, I think it probably is ground down into pieces and not really recognizable anymore.
If the Ark does exist, I think it probably is ground down into pieces and not really recognizable anymore.
Seeing that Turkey is mostly muslim. It would probably be more beneficial to Islam.
I think that the rational mind must conclude that Jesus Christ did exist in some living form. I suggest this because if he did not in any manner exist as a man, there would have been no prompt for the creation of religious texts referencing to his person. Thus, while the nature of Jesus Christ is debatable, the matter of whether he was once present seems to fairly certain.
Of course, the same logic would suggest that many deities such as those in the Greek and Roman pantheons also existed as notable men at some point in time. I personally imagine that to be potentially true, though all of the assumptions which I have made thusfar are based on no more than my personal opinion.
Regarding the original subject, I think that it is important to take into consideration the power of faith as the basis for religion. People believe what they want to believe, and people who are rational believe in nothing more than what they rationally understand.
If Noah's Ark was found, rational people would agree that there was once a major flood and that a boat was made whereby to survive it. Others would make more out of it, but the bottom line is that most folks who believed a certain thing in the beginning would continue believing it in the end.
The most striking result from such a discovery would probably be the traffic of people desiring to visit the site. Theologians would be happy, believing that the discovered boat proved the truth of the Bible. Scientists would be less impressed, concluding that the Biblical flood story was explained by the discovery of the boat.
