2007-08-19 05:05:48 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
An alarming number of grown adults here in the 21st century do indeed believe in it.
Ignorance is actually a luxury for certain "Christians."
You'd think the simple observation that there is not, nor has there ever been, anywhere close to enough H2O on, in, or around the planet to cover it, might dissuade people from believing that it happened - but no.
2007-08-19 05:10:10 · answer #1 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 5⤊ 3⤋
I think you mean "Does anyone actually believe that Noah's Ark was a historical event as described in the English translation of the book of Genesis." I "believe in" Noah's Ark in the same sense that I believe in Animal Farm by George Orwell, or The Iliad by Homer. There was a flood in southern Mesopotamia at the time described in Genesis. But the story of the Ark was not meant to relate history.
2007-08-19 05:13:16 · answer #2 · answered by NONAME 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Seems to me that a simple yes or no can be given without attacking anyone or anything.
But my answer isn't that simple. (I'm not attacking You, Thomas.) I live in a culture where most parents teach their children about Santa Claus. Mine did. I know that at a certain age a child will figure it out independent of the opinions of others, and it's just plain MEAN to tell a child that there is no Santa. You make liars of their parents.
Noah's ark is a little like that. Were You never fascinated by the idea of all those animals two-by-two?
"You can't believe something just because it's a beautiful idea."
"Oh, but i DO, Charles. That's HOW i believe."
(from Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh)
2007-08-19 05:17:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe that it is a wonderful story, and has great meaning. The same thing I believe about most of the Bible. There is not much in there that doesn't have some sort of lesson, for good or ill.
As to whether I actually believe a man built an ark large enough to house two of every animal, and then proceeded to collect all of these animals from around the world.... not really.
2007-08-19 05:13:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Dear T.J.,
With due respect to you, I strongly belief Noah's Ark with full evidence. It's in Holy Koran about Noah's Ark.
1. Noah's Ark at mount Ararat after the big Flood. You will be able see with your own eyes if you have the chance to go.
2007-08-19 05:29:48 · answer #5 · answered by AHMAD FUAD Harun 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you watched the news regularly. Or even looked on the Internet you could find Noah's Ark. For several years ago it was found on top of the highest mountain, built to the measurements as the Bible says.
I'd give you the mountains name; but I caught Meningitis as a little kid and it left me with a leaning disability in remembering names.
2007-08-19 05:17:35 · answer #6 · answered by geessewereabove 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The story probably arose from a flood in the middle east.
The idea of a total global flood is ridiculous for a lot of reasons. One is that it would have wiped out the biosphere and the atmospheric balance with it.
Noah would not have survived, Ark or not.
2007-08-19 05:24:30 · answer #7 · answered by capekicks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe Noah did get the message from God , and that everybody thought he was nuts, and that a cataclysmic flooding did occer ,,, but that the flood didn't involve the whole world , but rather just his world , however big that was,,, probably more like a reagon,, that took him on a journy for those 40 days with no land in sight, mabey he was swept out to sea or , some truth that didn't find itself in the bible ,
2007-08-19 05:26:19 · answer #8 · answered by darkcloud 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm afraid there are. and there are just as many people with persecution complexes like gunslinger who actually believe that the turkish government have banned expeditions to mount ararat. when if fact there are two camp sites there and you can hire guides to take you up there as long as you have a climbing permit, takes two months to get to make sure you're a competent climber, it's a mountain, (extinct volcano) not a hill. anyone can go up there, if they can climb. this is typical of fundies, "oh of course we can prove it, but the evil atheist conspirators are stopping us". B.S. i challenge every fundie to apply for a climbing permit for mount ararat most of you will get it, as long as you are not blind, have all four limbs and can breath without artificial aid. then you can wander over the lava flows and see what ever shape they want.
2007-08-19 05:27:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I most firmly believe it. If it's not on Ararat, then what is the harm in letting scientists go there & see for themselves? I believe it is there but a lot of people (including the Turkish Government) don't want the truth to be known! Honestly, what other reason could there be for keeping people off the mountain? None, in my opinion.
2007-08-19 05:20:56 · answer #10 · answered by GoAskAlice 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some do. But those people don't seem to grasp some of the rules of genetics. Primarily, you cannot bread an entire species of thousands or millions (in the case of humans, its now in the billions) from a single breading pair.
Really, I have to agree with wuzzle665. This, like many bible story's, may only have been meant to serve as a story with a lesson.
2007-08-19 05:13:58 · answer #11 · answered by Skippy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋