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Mt. Ararat
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27 Aug 2007 Mon 04:49 pm |
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I saw a documentary on tv over the weekend about Noah's Ark and many people believe it is on Mt.Ararat. However, the Turkish government has been resistent in allowing explorations. Why is the Turkish government so resistent on this?
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27 Aug 2007 Mon 04:53 pm |
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Without wishing to offend anyone, I do think that the Old Testament is a book of fables/fairy stores.... do you seriously believe they would find something? Unfortunately, accept it or not, science has rather discredited the Old Testament, so you have to read it as fable I guess (if you are a believer).
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27 Aug 2007 Mon 04:59 pm |
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Quoting AEnigma III: Without wishing to offend anyone, I do think that the Old Testament is a book of fables/fairy stores.... do you seriously believe they would find something? Unfortunately, accept it or not, science has rather discredited the Old Testament, so you have to read it as fable I guess (if you are a believer). |
well, we muslims believe that the old testament is a holly book and also you can find the same issue in islam ( qoran). it is not a myth for us
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27 Aug 2007 Mon 05:00 pm |
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Be that as it may.....NASA (I think) have done extensive work viewing Mt Araat from the sky using satalites in order to search for any possible evidence that the ark might have existed there. They must believe there is at least a possibility of there being a glimmer to truth in the story!
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27 Aug 2007 Mon 05:04 pm |
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Quoting ciko: well, we muslims believe that the old testament is a holly book and also you can find the same issue in islam ( qoran). |
Ops sorry  I genuinely dont want to offend people, but I do wonder how you deal with "Adam and Eve" versus dinosaurs? Regarding the Ark, do you have any idea of the size the ark would have to be to accommodate all those animals (not to mention the fact that Noah would have to go to every country in the world to collect them!).
Surely, you take this as "fable"? 
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27 Aug 2007 Mon 05:16 pm |
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Quoting AEnigma III: Quoting ciko: well, we muslims believe that the old testament is a holly book and also you can find the same issue in islam ( qoran). |
Ops sorry I genuinely dont want to offend people, but I do wonder how you deal with "Adam and Eve" versus dinosaurs? Regarding the Ark, do you have any idea of the size the ark would have to be to accommodate all those animals (not to mention the fact that Noah would have to go to every country in the world to collect them!).
Surely, you take this as "fable"? |
well..the sizes of the ark are not told in qoran so i dont know about it..but yes all those animals were on the ark..it must be something symbolic..and size of the ark!!!.if you believe in the god who create such a great universe it is easy to believe that the same God created an ark which can get all those animals. i personally dont see that as an fable..it is something happened really. and some sources say that scientists found some archeological heritage between Basra and southeast Turkey.
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27 Aug 2007 Mon 05:24 pm |
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Please excuse the offensive title, but see this link (which approaches Noah's Ark from a science point of view) and try to understand why it's impossible for most people to believe!
My final comment would be - if God did this "act" to rid the world of sin, then the point is IT DIDN'T WORK! Is God so falible?
http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/noahs_ark.html
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27 Aug 2007 Mon 05:34 pm |
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Quoting AEnigma III: Please excuse the offensive title, but see this link (which approaches Noah's Ark from a science point of view) and try to understand why its impossible for most people to believe!
My final comment would be - if God did this "act" to rid the world of sin, then the point is IT DIDN'T WORK! Is God so falible?
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you can believe whatever you want aenigma. nobody can prove that it existed. and you can send a link saying " reasons not to believe in God" and " reasons not to believe in bla bla". there is nothing logical or provable in religions. but it is really really stupid and funny to try to prove it didnt exist according to some scientist datas like "The radius of the Earth is approx. 6370km"..it made me laugh
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27 Aug 2007 Mon 05:38 pm |
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Well, things like this are why I am AEnigma Agnostic I would have a better chance of believing it if the Old Testament had said that "God peformed a miracle and took 2 of every species.." but it doesn't. It doesn't say ONCE that this task was assisted by the miracle of God. It says it was hand built by Noah (who is 600 years old)!.
Ahh well, we will just have to agree to disagree 
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27 Aug 2007 Mon 05:41 pm |
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Quoting AEnigma III:
PS. Could you remove the link from your quote - it makes the page enlarged! |
of course it was so stupid though
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