The search for Noah's Ark has been made for centuries, but so far no physical proof has ever be found. Istanbul University's Prof. Dr. Oktay Belli said: “Noah's Ark, the Flood is not a myth but a real incident mentioned in all holy books.”
Despite the hype, archaeologists have consistently reaffirmed over the years that the formation is natural, not the result of a petrified shipwreck, and that there is no geologic record of a global flood like the one described in religious texts.
No. While it IS an industry that makes money off the idea, no remains of an Ark were found on Mt Ararat, or anywhere else. There is also zero evidence that a global flood occured at the implied time frame, as depicted in the same mythology.
before determining that the Ark built to biblical proportions - provided that it was exceptionally well built - could've coped, housing all the animals that God instructed Noah to save. We also know that it's certainly possible to build a boat of this size and with these dimensions - at least, with today's technology.
National Geographic Society explorer Robert Ballard, inspired by Ryan and Pitman's hypothesis, has discovered supporting physical evidence of such a flood, including an underwater river valley and ancient shoreline as well as Stone Age structures and tools beneath the Black Sea.
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Why will Noah's ark never be found?
“There's no way we can determine where exactly in the ancient Near East it occurred,” says Magness. And both Cline and Magness say that even if artifacts from the Ark have been or will be found, they could never be conclusively connected to historical events.
The scientific and historical evidence is now clear: there has never been a global flood that covered the entire earth, nor do all modern animals and humans descend from the passengers of a single vessel.
Many scientists accept the idea that the biblical story of Noah's flood was inspired by a sudden inundation of the Black Sea by the Mediterranean 7500 years ago. But new research suggests no such flood occurred.
The dimensions of Noah's ark in Genesis, chapter 6, are given in cubits (about 18-22 inches): length 300 cubits, breadth 50 cubits, and height 30 cubits. Taking the lower value of the cubit, this gives dimensions in feet of 450 x 75 x 45, which compares with 850 x 92 x 64 for the Titanic.
Again, the Bible does not suggest that ANY animal missed the ark. Besides, Noah was given a direct order by God take every beast, fowl and any other living thing that creepeth upon the earth, onto the ark.
A natural rock structure near Dogubayazit, Turkey, has been misidentified as Noah's Ark. Microscopic studies of a supposed iron bracket show that it is derived from weathered volcanic minerals.
In 1947, the world received one of its greatest biblical archaeological gifts when a young shepherd boy discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls. Uncovered in different caves on the Dead Sea's northwestern shore, the thousands of pieces of parchment were painstakingly pieced together over many years.
The most famous tale of the Ark's location today is that it currently is housed in the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Ethiopia. According to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Ark is guarded in the church and can only be seen by this guardian.
While many people consider the story of Noah's Ark merely an instructive myth or parable about God's punishment for man's wickedness, others believe that the story is historically accurate. To them, Noah's tale describes events that really happened only a few thousand years ago.
Unfortunately, Crotser's false claim that he had found the Ark of the Covenant played a major part in the Jordanian decision to cancel the 1982 season of a major archaeological expedition, with the resultant disappointment to a staff of American archaeologists and scores of expectant volunteers, as well as a loss of ...
God gave Noah the dimensions for the ark in cubits. “This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits” (Genesis 6:15).
"The Bible indicates the original Ark was 300 cubits, using the Hebrew royal cubit that calculates in modern-day terms to 510 feet long," says Mark Looey, a co-founder of Answers in Genesis, the Christian ministry that built the attraction.
Though some take the story literally, there's no archaeological evidence that such an ark ever existed, nor is there any geologic evidence of a cataclysmic global flood. That doesn't mean the story wasn't based on historical events, however.
No. The great flood is an ancient myth which predates the Biblical version. It defies the laws of physics and the requirements of biology and basic principles of engineering. Unsurprisingly, there is no geographical trace of any such event.
During the last Ice Age and until its end about 10,000 years ago, the Black Sea was variously a dry seabed, a freshwater lake, and, ultimately, a sea. Written by U.S. oceanographers William Ryan and Walter Pitman, the book Noah's Flood (1989) offers an interesting hypothesis.
By tradition Jacob of Nisibis received the wood from an angel during his search for the Ark. In 2020, the young Earth creationist group the Institute for Creation Research acknowledged that, despite many expeditions, Noah's Ark had not been found and is unlikely to be found.
NO human beings survived the flood except Noah and his wife, their three sons, and the three sons' wives. AFTER the flood, these three younger couples had children and they are the ancestors of ALL people who have ever lived since the flood.
