2007-02-23 00:31:30 · 7 answers · asked by User Name 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i've heard that it is still here on earth, but nobody can access it.
2007-02-23 00:31:57 · update #1
According to Abrahamic tradition, Noah's Ark was a vessel built at God's command to save Noah, his family, and a core stock of the world's animals from the Great Flood. The story is contained in the Hebrew Bible, Christian Old Testament's book of Genesis, chapters 6 to 9 and in the Quran.
According to the documentary hypothesis, the Ark story told in Genesis may represent several originally quasi-independent sources, and the process of composition over many centuries may help to explain apparent confusion and repetition in the text. Many Orthodox Jews and Christians reject this hypothesis, holding that the Ark story is true, and that any perceived inadequacies can be explained rationally.
The Ark story told in Genesis has parallels in the Sumerian myth of Ziusudra, which tells how Ziusudra was warned by the gods to build a vessel in which to escape a flood which would destroy mankind. Less exact parallels are found in other cultures from around the world. Indeed, the deluge story is one of the most common folk stories throughout the world.
The Ark story has been subject to extensive elaborations in the various Abrahamic traditions, mingling theoretical solutions to practical problems (e.g. how Noah might have disposed of animal waste) with allegorical interpretations (e.g. the Ark as a precursor of the Church, offering salvation to mankind).
By the beginning of the 19th century, the growth of geology and biogeography as sciences meant that few natural historians felt able to justify a literal interpretation of the Ark story. Nevertheless, Biblical literalists continue to explore the region of the mountains of Ararat[1], in north-eastern Turkey where the Bible says Noah's Ark came to rest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noahs_Ark
2007-02-23 00:35:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
It came to rest on the mountains(s) of Ararat.
Noahs ark was found by a russian explorer and his grandson, and documented by the last czar of Russia with pictures and actual film reels.
When the communists overthrew the country, they burned all the evidence, along with other things.
It has been sighted by US planes during WW II.
The Turkish goverment even has a vistors site for people to visit the area.
2007-02-23 01:22:26 · answer #2 · answered by KJV_1971 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's right next to the cottage where Snow White and the seven dwarfs lived.
2007-02-23 00:35:26 · answer #3 · answered by Atheist Eye Candy 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't think there really was a Noah's ark.
Its just a story.
2007-02-23 00:35:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is found in story books, just like the gingerbread house.
2007-02-23 00:48:58 · answer #5 · answered by tombollocks 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Several people have gone in quest of it, but I don't think that anyone truly knows.
2007-02-23 00:38:36 · answer #6 · answered by Rahab 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is a myth. It doesn't exist.
2007-02-23 00:36:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋