2006-11-02 12:09:23 · 50 answers · asked by a sock 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Actuallly it is a historical fact.
Please people! Unless you know your history, please do not say it is not a historical fact!!!
National Geographic has reported about Noah's Ark, which is in Turkey. Due to the reason it is covered in snow and also very dangerous to climb that mountain, researchers are still looking for a way to uncover it.
So, I believe it. I am 24.
2006-11-02 12:21:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
I am 57.
There are flood stories in every civilization of the world. Most of them agree about a universal flood that destroyed the world as it was at the time, and that a small group of people was saved out of that. The Noah's Ark story is the one that seems the least mythological. Also, there are geological evidences of the flood.
Yes, I believe the noh's Ark story.
By the way if you study the dimensions of the Ark, you will it could hold more animals than a dozen express trains.
On CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) I heard a secular program talking about calculations done that showed the exact dimensions of the ark, reproduced in miniature, were the perfect dimensions for stability in the rough seas. No good for going anywhere, but perfect for stability. Interesting, isn't it? How did Moses, the writer of Genesis, know all that?
some time later ... I have gone over all the answers adding a thumbs up wherever there was a thumbs down (with one exception), because I think it is silly to rate the answers on the basis of agreement or not. The question was if we believe it or not. So answers were fine both ways.
2006-11-02 12:50:17 · answer #2 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Yes. 38.
I look at the world and think there is enough evidence for a global flood. The actual thing that makes me believe in the Bible is the clear existence of sin and there is no evidence that humans are capable of progressing/evolving to a higher level. Humans are just too damn selfish.
However, I don't understand why some people spend so much time searching for the ark. Reasonable logic says that after the flood the occupants of the ark would have needed shelter and would have torn up the ark. What other wood was available? What, they would keep the ark as a shrine?
2006-11-02 12:20:19 · answer #3 · answered by harkerrocks 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Every part of earth shows that it was once under water, even the highest mountains. The Greenland Ice caps shows a tremendous amount of weight came just around the time of Noah's flood. The Ark (or parts of it) is currently buried under the ice on Mount Ararat.
I believe that it did happen.
2006-11-03 10:34:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
My goodness! You certainly sparked some interesting responses, didn't you?
Mine?----
Believe what?
... in the Noah's Ark story? YES, the story exists!
... that the story is literally true? NO, come on!
(by the way, I do know my history and my science and some of these people need to read a little more closely!)
... that the story is a valid metaphor exploring our relationship to the divine mystery? YES, the story was written as a metaphor to help us discuss religion, values, morals, and the meaning of life.
2006-11-02 13:03:18 · answer #5 · answered by Gidgee Bubu 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
It seem's that nobody know's how to to answer your two question's, with out their personal opinion's included since you did not ask for them. Here are my answer's no opinion's.
1) Yes, I believe in Noah's ark.
2) I'll be 29 this month.
2006-11-02 13:54:42 · answer #6 · answered by jrealitytv 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
YES and NO(!!!) I believe in the Noah's Ark Story. I can verify in a concrete sense that the story actually exists... I've actually READ it a couple of times, and preached on it in church... I am very much convinced that the Noah's Ark Story exists....
as to whether ANY of it represents historical fact... the answer is definately not... The story is an adaptation of flood myths from neighbouring cultures and actually represents two streams... The theme of Divine Flood is common, but the main source was likely a canaanite story with a pantheon... Much of the pantheistic elements of the flood story remain... if you read it again, you will notice that sometimes god is referred to as God, and other times God is referred to as the Lord, literally YHWH in the hebrew, and pronounced Adonai (or LOrd) out of reverence for 'the name'.
whenever something GOOD is being spoken, the name for God is YHWH... whenever something BAD id pronounced, it is LORD... this goes back to the version of the story where it was actually TWO gods, one who wanted to wreck everything, and another who wanted to save this other guy.....
check out Gilgamesh, Attrahasis, also check out the book Stories of Ancient Canaan by Coogan. good stuff.
I am 31
hope this helps... jmk
2006-11-02 12:23:06 · answer #7 · answered by dingwallplayer 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
No.
25
Only a brain dead moron would believe a single drunk could build a boat, find a male and female of all 900 million species of animals, obtain enough food and fresh water to feed them for the weeks they were on the ark, and then conveniently drop them off in their homelands without causing the greatest mass extincition in the history of the earth.
Btw, how about all of the damn flora that was wiped out by the flood? Did that just magically appear when the waters subsided?
How about the simple fact that their isn't enough water in solid, liquid or gasseous form to ever cover all of the earth up to the highest mountains? I guess that just magically appeared and disappeared as well.
Let's not forget the fact that fresh water life (fish and amphibians) would need aquariums with circulating water to survive since salt water would kill them.
As I said you would have to be a moron.
And to all the fools that think their is some ark on Mt. Arafat., EVERY single return trip to the supposed site have never uncovered anything, and one would think a 450 foot wooden vessel would be pretty damn easy to find.
2006-11-02 12:29:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Yes, I believe it. The question of the person age is not important, just faith in God. The story of the Flood has been mentioned in countless ancient artifacts from numerous cultures and countries from around the world.
If the Noah story is not true,then how did animal remains not found in that part of the world wind up on top of Mount Ararat in Turkey?! I am 35yr old Christian.
2006-11-02 12:25:48 · answer #9 · answered by isbros 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
There where many arks that where constructed by differant people around the world at that time that God chose to repopulate the world. The Vedic scriptures also have the Ark story but different people. Or how did we get different colors of people around the world again.? Get the Srimad Bhagavatam By Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada at www.krishnaculture.com
2006-11-02 12:15:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋