Religion Noah's Ark was Circular

[Wahooti Fandango]

Ancient tablet giving new shape to the story of Noah's Ark

MAEV KENNEDY

January 3, 2010

THAT they led the enormous floating wildlife collection aboard two by two is well known. Less familiar, however, is the possibility that the animals Noah shepherded on to his ark then went round and round inside.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/anci...-to-the-story-of-noahs-ark-20100102-lmii.html

I still cannot see how all the necessary organisms could have fit on the Ark even if it was circular. What sort of impact does this finding have on the whole story behind the Ark and its plausibility?

 

[Fire]

Ancient tablet giving new shape to the story of Noah's Ark

MAEV KENNEDY

January 3, 2010




http://www.theage.com.au/world/anci...-to-the-story-of-noahs-ark-20100102-lmii.html

I still cannot see how all the necessary organisms could have fit on the Ark even if it was circular. What sort of impact does this finding have on the whole story behind the Ark and its plausibility?

It has plausability?

 

[midorigreenwood]

circular?

you sure it wasn't.......... rectangular?

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

It has plausability?

It depends who you talk to. For me it does not, but for others it does.


http://aufiles.creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter13.pdf

http://aufiles.creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter12.pdf

 

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I just want to know what god had against unicorns and centaurs

 

[Fire]

I just want to know what god had against unicorns and centaurs

And the Dinosaurs.

The damned floods even drowned the water dwelling ones.

 

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That's some flood!

 

[fairdinkum]

What sort of impact does this finding have on the whole story behind the Ark and its plausibility?

r u srs bro?

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

r u srs bro?

I am no creationist (I am an atheist, although not really anti-religious), but I am serious in the sense that for some people these findings may impact on their beliefs in regards to the Ark. We need tesseract to respond.

 

[midorigreenwood]

And the Dinosaurs.

The damned floods even drowned the water dwelling ones.

fundies actually believe dinosaurs were on the ark....

also according to the book of Job..... dinosaurs were living among men >,>

I guess they got hunted to extinction like the dodo...

looks like unicorns were too homosexual for god's love :/

 

[bit_pattern]

Bit of a blow for the literalist's

In his translation, the God who has decided to spare one just man speaks to Atram-Hasis, a Sumerian king who lived before the flood and who is the Noah figure in earlier versions of the ark story. ''Wall, wall! Reed wall, reed wall! Atram-Hasis, pay heed to my advice, that you may live forever! Destroy your house, build a boat; despise possessions And save life! Draw out the boat that you will built with a circular design; Let its length and breadth be the same.''

LOL, talk about excited! I hope his excitement wasn't protruding, for the witnesses sake

In the Victorian era some became obsessed with the ark story. George Smith - the lowly British Museum assistant who, in 1872, deciphered the Flood Tablet that is inscribed with the Assyrian version of the Noah's Ark tale - could apparently not contain his excitement at his discovery. According to the museum's archives: ''He jumped up and rushed about the room in a great state of excitement and to the astonishment of those present began to undress himself.''

 

[fairdinkum]

I am no creationist (I am an atheist, although not really anti-religious), but I am serious in the sense that for some people these findings may impact on their beliefs in regards to the Ark. We need tesseract to respond.

I guess you're right. It's not as if they've had any good reason to doubt the story until now.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Ancient tablets, eh? I see not everyone took/sold on their share at this year's Sensation then...

 

[BomberGal]

fundies actually believe dinosaurs were on the ark....

Fundies believe there was an ark.

 

[bit_pattern]

I wonder if god instructed him to build it with a circular saw?

 

[Bretski]

I wonder if it were a circle where the Pi ratio was exactly 3 such a 1 Kings.

 

[The rabbi]

circular?

you sure it wasn't.......... rectangular?

This is closer to the ark myth in Genesis than this story. The ark in the Genesis story is 300 cubits in length, fifty cubits wide and 30 cubits high. Not quite circular.

 

[The rabbi]

fundies actually believe dinosaurs were on the ark....

also according to the book of Job..... dinosaurs were living among men >,>

I guess they got hunted to extinction like the dodo...

looks like unicorns were too homosexual for god's love :/

Job does not mention dinosaurs. That is a product of the fertile imagination of the creationists as they read their pseudo-scientific nonsense back into an ancient religious text.

 

[Hoppers Xing]

Illogical much? What did the carnivores eat if he could only bring two of every animal?

 

[BomberGal]

Illogical much? What did the carnivores eat if he could only bring two of every animal?

Is that your only problem with the ark?

When I try to contemplate it, my head hurts. I read a great piece by Ian Plimer about it. So many problems, so little time to laugh at them all.

 

[Hoppers Xing]

Nah, not my only problem with it, just couldn't be bothered listing it all.

 

[bit_pattern]

Is that your only problem with the ark?

When I try to contemplate it, my head hurts. I read a great piece by Ian Plimer about it. So many problems, so little time to laugh at them all.

Yet Plimer managed to lose the argument and a "boundary working" court case when he tried to sue the Creationists over their false claims, and that's when he had science firmly on his side! The man an academic hump.

How Not To Argue With Creationists

 

[midorigreenwood]

Job does not mention dinosaurs. That is a product of the fertile imagination of the creationists as they read their pseudo-scientific nonsense back into an ancient religious text.

How do you think the hebrews defeated so many heathens in God's name?

David on the back of Brontosaurus >>>>>>>>>> Goliath

got interesting when the Phillistines tamed some velociraptors though...

strange but true >,>