Biblical archaeologist to discuss search for Noah’s Ark
October 19, 2011 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
A biblical archaeologist who spent parts of the past three years searching for Noah’s Ark will be in Duluth on Friday evening to talk about what he found.
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I heard he’ll also be talking about what he found in his search for Santa Claus, unicorns, Bigfoot, and the lost island of Atlantis.
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I wonder if he’ll discuss all the flood myths that are identical to the Noah story but are thousands of years older.
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Could you expand on “all the flood myths that are identical to the Noah story”? I’d like to hear some details.
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There’s a couple of dozen here for starters:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths
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Most of the flood stories in that article don’t predate the Biblical flood by thousands of years. The Sumerian flood story seems to have been recorded earlier but most of the others are around the same time or later than the Bible. Much of the Bible was recorded much later than when the events occured. Very likely all the civilizations were recording the same historical event. Even scientists say that at one time the entire earth was covered by water.
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Lots of people writing down the same story doesn’t transform it into an historical event.
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Well if you want to go, you had better do it Friday, because Harold Camping now says the word will end on this very Saturday. And you know how these religious nut cases are. They are always right. [pun intended]
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I think that was more of a double entendre than a pun. Either way it’s not exactly original humor.
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The end of the world already happened. We’ve been dead since that last prediction. Try to keep up. This is what hell looks like.
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If they prove the existence of the ark, hell, even if they prove the existence of god, who really cares? I have my own set of morals and values that I live by. I don’t need to be threatened with eternal agony by an arrogant, conceited doofus that tortures everyone that doesn’t live their life the way she wants them to. To me, that is a narcissistic tyrant, not a loving or caring person. If god stays out of my way, I’ll stay out of hers.
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I’ve never seen it but I’m sure I would like it if I did. There’s not enough hours in the day. I spend all my time down at the holy roller clubhouse, groveling on my knees with the rest of the weak-minded psychopaths and offering my most sincerest prayers to an invisible entity in the sky in the hopes that she’ll come to her senses and grant me a flamethrower to cleanse the world of evil in her name.
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Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
What sayest thou, cellar dweller?
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*whistles* Here boy, here boy, come get your treat! Sit. Sit. Sit! Good boy!
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Actually, Chapman says the world is going to end (again), on Friday, the 21st. And he says it will end s-l-o-w-l-y. I’ll give him this….with each passing guess, he’s getting closer!
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There actually is a connection between Brother Camping’s prediction and this Story. Camping believes Noah left the ark exactly 7,000 years ago tomorrow. Which is why the world ends tomorrow. For some reason.
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Since if someone found a 6000 year old boat at the top of a mountain it would be a world wide sensation, I’m going to go out on a limb and guess he didn’t actually find anything.
—– will be in Duluth on Friday evening to talk about what he found. —–
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You would think with GPS and satelite cameras that can see down to the inch, if the ark existed it would have been found. How big is Mt. Ararat anyway?
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You would also think that with the development of human intellect since the Stone Age, when this all supposedly happened, people would’ve stopped believing in fairy tales by now.
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I’m guessing none of you bozos will be attending?
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There will already be more than enough clowns there. It doesn’t need to be added to.
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The good news is no one is being forced to go and listen to this talk if they think it’s nonsense. Quagmire my understanding is they don’t know for sure which mountain the Bible is calling Mt Ararat. Look for example how long it took searchers to find Steve Fossett’s crashed plane and that was something that had just recently happened. All the modern technology couldn’t find him either.
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I believe the following statement reveals a critical flaw in Mr Price’s reasoning: “They’ve discovered what Price describes as ‘anomalies’ 40 or 50 feet below the glacier” (Price in DNT 10/20/11). As a trained archaeologist, I must share one of the few archaeological “laws” with the readers: the law of superimposition. The law of superimposition posits that archaeological deposits which are overlain by more recent depositional events are older. Think of it this way: your digging an archaeologically site and you find a phonograph, then a 8 track, a cassette tape, a cd, an MP3 player, and so on. The deposits laid down earlier are older..in such a way, one can relatively date the antiquity of a given archaeological site. So when Mr. Price says that he has “anomalies” below a glacier on Mt. Arat, we have to assume the anomalies predate the last glacial maximum (LGM) associated with the Pleistocene period. The LGM dates between 26, 000-19, 000 years ago. That would mean that Noah would have had to squeeze underneath a massive glacier to build his ark and fill it with animals that had yet to evolve from there Pleistocene relatives. I’m sorry, but Mr. Price has no business co-opting science to add credence to fairy tales. Complete fantasy…
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It isn’t a requirement to Christianity that anyone believe there was a Noah’s Ark. The only requirement is to accept and believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead. Mock Biblical teaching all you want. The simple fact that as an unbeliever you have a hopeless eternity to face is no reason for comfort.
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Judasine, you have just reminded me why I don’t care for organized relegion. They all say either believe or you’re doomed. This is the reason why people have died for thousands of years.
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Jesus Christ only preached peace. Some who claimed to be Christian subverted his message for the sake of their own power, on occasion. We are told to repent and believe and our reward will be great in Heaven. If you choose unbelief that is your right but it is quite ridiculous to blame Christianity for all the wars there have ever been. In the pride of your unbelief how do you find hope and solace in mocking God?
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Every religion has their savior and they all say if you don’t buy their story, you’re doomed. You can’t all be right, but you can all be wrong. I’ll play the odds and guess your fairy tales aren’t any more valid than any other religion’s fairy tales.
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Suit yourself. I’ll pray for you.
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If that makes you feel better about yourself, which if you’re honest is the whole reason you’d do so, then suit yourself. Your incantations are meaningless to me.
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I’m not praying for myself and can do nothing on my own to further my salvation but accept what God freely gives. It is only through the grace of God that I am anything. It’s unfortunate that prayer is meaningless to you. I make no claim to influence your salvation, that is only something God can do.
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I’m not remotely interested in “salvation.” I don’t have anything to be saved from.
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