where is Noah's Ark now? i heard its still existing..can anyone tell me where it is?

Answer 1

From the biblical standpoint, Noah's ark did exist. This fact is confirmed not only in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament but also in the New Testament particularly in the Book of 1 Peter 3:20; Book of Hebrews 1:27; Book of Luke 17:27 and in the Book of Matthew 24:38. No less than our Lord Jesus Christ mentioned about Noah, the ark, and the flood in the Book of Matthew.

Exploring more than 13,000 feet high in the rugged Elburz mountain range northwest of Tehran, a team of archaeologists from Texas believe they have found the remains of Noah's Ark. "I can't imagine what it could be if it is not the Ark," Arch Bonnema of the Christian-based Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration (Base) Institute, told ABC News.


The team found the object nestled on the side of a hill, but at first they didn't think it was the Ark. Still, they wondered--and hoped. "We found something that has my heart skipping a beat," archaeologist and team leader Robert Cornuke told ABC. "It wasn't impressive at first. Certainly didn't think it to be Noah's Ark. But when we got close, we were amazed. It looked similar to wood." On the downside, it wasn't all that distinctive since it looked very much like the deck of a modern boat.



The Bible gives the only clues:
--It is located in the mountains of Ararat, which theologians say is hundreds of miles long. Although many have thought the ark, if it were to be found at all, would be on Mount Ararat in Turkey, the Base Institute team says the Iranian location is consistent with the Bible's geographical evidence.
--The Ark is 300 cubits by 50 cubits, which is large enough to rival the size of a small aircraft carrier. This discovery fits that size and scale. "It is provocative to think that this could be the lost ark of Noah," Cornuke told ABC.
--The Ark is made of gopher wood. This is the big gotcha. No one knows what gopher wood is!



What they found is about 400 feet long and consists of rocks that look remarkably like blackened wood beams while other rock in the area is distinctively brown, according to a news release issued by the Base Institute. One visible piece is "cut" at a 90-degree angle. Even more intriguing, some of the wood-like rocks were tested just this week and actually proved to be petrified wood. Go to the Bible and you'll read that Noah sealed his ark with pitch, which is a black substance. Upon being cut open, one of these "rocks" also divulged a marine fossil that could have only originated undersea.

Answer 2

"From my perusal of the photos, (and I can only go from the pictures, not having visited the site), the object does not look like Noah’s Ark to me. The black object looks like a rock outcrop, and the close-up shots of the ‘beams’ suggest that the whole area has been sheared by tectonic movement, causing folding and metamorphism.
The beams with their hewn surfaces at right angles look like rock that has fractured along cleavage planes. It is just fortuitous that the resultant pieces look like wooden beams. In fact, there is an abundance of broken pieces of rock in the pictures, and most of them are smaller than beams. One of the pictures has the distinctive appearance of folded rock, not wood.
When a large region, such as a mountain range, is uplifted, the rock strata are sheared and metamorphosed by the immense forces involved. A new texture develops in the rock strata.
The new texture often involves parallel ‘cracks’, like the pages in a book, or a heap of timber planks, depending on the type of rock and the degree of metamorphism. This texture is called foliation. Once a rock is foliated, it tends to fracture along these planes.
Most people would be familiar with the way that metamorphic rocks such as shale and slate fracture. Sometimes a region can experience multiple folding and the rocks can have fracture planes in two directions and the broken pieces can look like timber when they break.
One of the team members, Reg Lyle, an oil and gas geologist, seems a little coy about saying the find is definitely Noah’s Ark. He reportedly said, 'The object appears to be a basalt dike, however, it is absolutely uncanny that the object looks like hand hewn timbers, even the grain and color look just like petrified wood… I really need to keep an open mind about this.'
If the black object is the petrified remains of the wooden Ark, how was it petrified? To petrify, the timber would need to be surrounded by a mineral-rich solution and absorb it into its pore structure. It is difficult to conceive of how that could happen for a timber structure sitting on the side of the mountain. If the Ark still existed high in a mountain somewhere, it is more likely its timber would be exposed to rain and snow which would not contain the minerals to petrify it. Superficially, the ‘beams’ appear more likely to be rock, hardened at depth and uplifted toward the end of the Flood.
I would like to see more details about the tests that were claimed to show the material was petrified wood. Normally one would make thin samples of the ‘wooden beams’ and examine them under a microscope. It should be fairly straightforward to distinguish between metamorphosed rock and petrified wood.
Another check would be to geologically map the area (but this would not be possible in the absence of another expedition to the site). If the black object is indeed a basalt dyke, it should be possible to trace this for some distance by finding other outcrops. Also, if the ‘beams’ have simply fractured along foliation planes in the strata, it should be possible to check other rock outcrops for similar foliation, and to determine the geological

Answer 3

Since Noah's Ark is just a fictional story it never existed in the first place.

Answer 4

Some people believe it is still somewhere on Mt. Ararat where the bible tells us it was grounded as the flood waters receded. It has not as yet been found due to the size and inaccessibility of Mt. Ararat. It is hard to believe it could still be there after so long, but with god all things are possible so it could be there.

Answer 5

Noah's ark is believed to be found in the Ararat mountains ( in Armenia). Armenia is also the place were they believe the biblical garden of Eden is located.

Answer 6

It's exactly where The Bible *says* it is! It's on Mount Arate. (sp?)

It had been frozen in ice for thousands of years, but now because of global warming, the ice is melting, and can be seen. Also, during WWII, pilots caught glimpes of it when they flew over-head. There's also a monestary built near there that has been there for ions.

Answer 7

Apart from the myths in Genesis, the 'sightings' are hoaxes -
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/09/0920_040920_noahs_ark.html

Answer 8

Shockingly, our own CIA invested tens of thousands of dollars into trying to find it! Surprisingly, they couldn't.

It doesn't exist - if you just whip out genesis and start reading, you will see that two different arks of two different sizes are described, and two floods of two different lengths are described. Two myth systems were blended (poorly) into one to produce this story.

Lions and deer on the same ship? And the food for them all for more than a month? And, read what Noah did to the animals when the boat finally landed.

And read the part just before Noah and find out that the daughters of Man married the sons of Giants and then you just might get that this is all myth, lovely, instructive, informative myth.

Answer 9

Its stuck up in a mountain somewhere! I cant remember where but I was watching TBN one day and they were talking about it and it really does exist! But nobody can go see it because they dont want anyone to damage it.

Answer 10

They claim that it's in Turkey on Mt Ararat. No one knows if that's true.