Unsolved Mysteries: Noah's Ark

Unsolved Mysteries: Noah's Ark

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[Steelioss]

The Ark has been told in different versions and by different people even before the Bible was written. And the thing about raining in 30 days and 30 nights is happening almost evey year in rain forests.

In the oldest writing language in the world, Sumerian, it tells of beings known as the Annunaki who decended from the skies and created man in their own image.

The Bible is a rip off of Sumerian and I'd rather believe the oldest writings in the world, than some fairytale.

[Dayziecat]

@polterzzzzzzzz You are correct, there are tidbits of factual historical incidents in the bible. But, as with all great fiction, there is always a bit of reality mixed in with the imaginary. It's natural for an author to weave details of current events into a story, because people are familiar with it and can relate to it on a personal level. Most definitely they were exaggerated though. Would the bible be the best selling book of all time if the stories were boring? lol

[polterzzzzzzzz]

@Dayziecat if you take the bible with a pinch of salt (as must be taken all pieces of ancient written history - just take a look at battle numbers for instance which are overly exagerated in favour of the victors) it has remarkable historical factors which match non-religious books. then again that of course doesn't mean that all of it is true.

[Dayziecat]

@Jantv81 Why not? They made up gods and devils and talking snakes...in fact, thousands of fictional books are produced by man every day. Why wouldn't they have made up stories 2000 years ago? It's ridiculous to think they didn't. The imaginations of human beings is limitless and had been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

[Dayziecat]

@childrenfromabove You should understand that mountain formations take more than a few thousand years to form. The bible account was not long enough ago for the landscape to have changed that drastically.

[agentofshield1]

@toby099: There was a catastrophic flood in the Middle East toward the end of the Last Ice Age, called the Black Sea Flood. Some say that was the inspiration.

[toby099]

@agentofshield1

yup they're all just legends recalling dramatic climate changes , its amazing these stories have lasted this long

[Kousaburo]

Bible = Garbage.

[agentofshield1]

I believe that all Legends have a basis in fact... However, I do not believe in the Sunday School intrepretation of Noah's Ark. Since the story originated with the Sumerians, and that they were the first established civilization, they might've been recalling the climatic changes that took place at the end of the last ice Age.

[snakes3425]

@thetalkingllamablog

Keep this in mind during the stories in the Bible have been translated and re-translated time and again into multipul languages, if you want a scientific explination at the time of Noah the geography of the area was far different then it is today, Mt. Ararat at the time might have been hills or a plateau, not a mountain range.