Possible Noah's Ark Discovery

[125gJoe]

Link: http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/local_story_177234625.html

[DaisyTattoo]

Wow. That's very interesting although I wonder where the rest of the ark is if they just found a peice of it.

[Native American]

It's a hewn timber. That's amazing. Even more of a chin-scratcher: it's 400 feet long. Other than the biblical implications, the next thing that came to my mind was "If we had the DNA from those humungous trees, all of our logging problems would be solved!"

v/r, N-A

[DansMarineTank]

?? from what i hav eread they have found a big plank of wood???

[led_zeppelin]

I still dont see how you could fit 2 of every animal onto a boat....

[Red Tailed Wonder]

therd be a lot of fish!

[Zen4t5]

therd be a lot of fish!

I believe the world was flooded. That is probably the best era of fish history. They owned the world.

[Toirtis]

I will await more tests...if it is actually petrified, its likely quite a bit older than the finders would like it to be....besides, were not the remains of what was thought to be Noah's ark already found near Ararat about 30 years ago and again two years ago?

http://www.arkdiscovery.com/noah's_ark.htm

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0427_040427_noahsark.html

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40060

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1727536&gma=true

Besides, other photos of this new 'ark' look nothing like a boat, petrified and decomposed or otherwise:

http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/0b/01/20060629230609990002

[khombre]

I thought they said that was a hoax? The first one I mean. I'm not sure, just heard it from someone. :huh:

[Emg]

All the first one is is a shape on a mountaintop that "Looks" like the bow of a ship/boat of some type. It could just be a land formation...

This second one is much more interesting...."petrified" obviously hewn/man made timbers.......now, how old would a plank need to be in order to become petrified according to current scientific reasoning and age dating methods ?

[jennypenny]

I am no expert of petrified wood, but petrifaction dose not need millions of years to happen. Thousands are more likely, and some fossils can petrify in a few hundred years. Although, if the wood was never buried petrifaction would be unlikely. Petrifaction requires water to move through hard organic material and replace old minerals with new minerals. The organic material typically needs to in an anaerobic environment in order to prevent rotting. So, not just sitting on top of a mountain.

Anyway, I certainly did not see or read enough information to comment on what the object is or how old it is. But it sounds like an interesting find. Biblical or not I would like to know who or what got the planks there.

As far as Noah's story, who knows? Many biblical stories (at least modified versions) are supported by some archeological facts. Flood stories are found in many cultures. I personally doubt that forty days of rain flooded the whole earth, but that doesn’t mean some interesting flood took place and that someone managed to save his family and a number of animals from drowning. Either way it has been turned into a moral stories that is memorized by thousands of children every year.

[125gJoe]

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/09/13/great.flood.finds.ap/

[Cartman102]

I think they need to keep observing this piece of wood. You can't just say it was from Noahs Ark right when you find it and have no clue when it dates back. It would be cool if it was from the Ark but they just need to keep researching it.

[fishcatch22]

actually, the "noah's ark" may have actually happened, in the jordan river basin. well, basically, some old wiseman said it was going to flood, so the wealthest man in the village built a boat big enough to hold the whole town and all their livestock while the river flooded. that's just another example of the bible reconstituting old hebrew stories and trying to pass them off to the ignorant as fact.

[jennypenny]

I really liked the second article joe.

[Unome]

It's a hewn timber. That's amazing. Even more of a chin-scratcher: it's 400 feet long.Yeah, I'd like to see the tree that came from. I thought the only trees to reach that kind of heighth were redwoods and some species in South America(long way from where Noah's ark was built, huh?).