Is Noah's Ark story plausible?

I watched a documentary a little while ago about the flood and Noahs ark. Turns out some scientists believe the Black Sea is a relatively "new" body of water. There is a tiny little channel linking the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.

Back when the Mediterranean was closed off from the sea at the Straits of Gibralter, the Mediterranean almost completely evaporated. Then, for no apparent reason, the straits opened up and the Mediterranean was again flooded with water. This flood into the Mediterranean may have caused such a surge that it caused this channel near Gallipoli to surge with water and the low lying basin that was once a dry piece of land was flooded to become the Black Sea.

Divers have been to the bottom of the Black Sea and uncovered remnants of an ancient civilization. Plates, cutlery, even ancient structures are found on the bottom of the Sea. This would also explain why the "bones" of a huge, ancient ship are found on a mountainside in Turkey, as Turkey makes up the majority of the southern coast of the Black Sea.

Little factual pieces like this help to explain some of the stories in the bible. The flood was probably real and so was the ark, but on a much smaller scale than what is embellished in the actual book.

Originally posted by sirCyco

Originally posted by Thomas Crowne
the same God that quite assuredly calmed them, as in tranquilizer calm, for the ride..

well if he did that why even bother with noah...why not just snap his fingers and have all the animals levitate for awhile until the flood waters receeded...i dont think that sounds any more far fetched than a thousand foot boat filled with 2 of every kind of animal on earth....

Why even save them in the first place? "God" could just bring them all back to life, or create new animals.

Originally posted by mutehalo
lets not forget about all the species that live off of freshwater. he would have needed tanks of water to accomidate thousands of freshwater species. not to mention he would have had to aeriate the water and find more freshwater to replenish the tanks when they evaporated.

This too. I'll bet silicone (much less containers that would hold water for long periods of time) was a bit tough to come by back then, eh?

The idea is completely implausible, and stupid, considering god supposedly is all powerful and shouldn't need any help from humans to accomplish any task.

God - "I'm all powerful, but I'll need your help on this one."

Give me a break! Why not just create a new Earth? It wasn't that difficult the first time, was it?

[Edited on 11-16-2003 by Satyr]

Basic logic would indicate that the story of Noah and the ark are not real. Then again this occured thousands of years ago(?) and we dont really know if it is true or not, which leads to discussions like these.

Originally posted by crayon

Originally posted by banjoechef
noah is neo is perceval is perseus is jesus

Hmm, I don't think I have ever heard of the connection that noah is jesus. Interesting.

noah saved the world jesus saved the world, noah had a dark age to save, jesus had a dark age to save, noah put all the animals in the boat, jesus gathered the sheep into the flock, people probably thought noah was nuts cuz he was building a bigass boat and saying the whoel world would flood, and jesus' following was looked at as a vile superstition

well if noah was jesus why is his name noah and not jesus?

because they are showing the cyclical nature of history, the same thing keeps happening with different names

Originally posted by banjoechef
because they are showing the cyclical nature of history, the same thing keeps happening with different names

who are "they" and what do you mean"the same things keep happening with different names" ......who else? moses or somebody?

yes moses, perseus, jesus, noah, they are the ones who wrote the bible originally, some civilizatrion of the utmost antiquity

Originally posted by banjoechef
yes moses, perseus, jesus, noah, they are the ones who wrote the bible originally, some civilizatrion of the utmost antiquity

are you saying they are all jesus's?

jesus is just as mythological as the rest of them, yes they are all the same version of the original hero

i got this from Ancient Science
A Radical Reassessment of Myth, History,The Legends of the Holy Grail, and the Science of Ascension by laura knight

[Edited on 17-11-2003 by banjoechef]

plausible. haha. its obviouslly made up - historic evidence backs this up.
there was no flood that swept the earth.

what historic evidence did u look at? obviously none

There is evidence of big floods, but not a world flood. One of the things that may have given rise to a belief of a world wide flood are finds such as fossil shells high in the Himalayas, Andes, and other high geological structures, though as mans' understanding of geology progressed these finds were easily explained by the typical mountain formation process.
After all, we're talking about a time when all you could see was considered the "entire world", and it was still believed to be flat for a long time to come. There was no way to make a phone call and say, "Hey, is it flooded over there too?" There's no possible way anyone in one region of the world could even know if it was flooded entirely. At best, it would be a wild guess.

[Edited on 11-18-2003 by Satyr]

well i'm going with the fact that nearly every religion that was existant at the time has a flood story

Every single culture has a great flood story. There were probaly many great floods when the glaciers were melting and this is where the strories originated from. Noah sounds like just some drunken boat captain, there have been many of those throughout history, this one just happened to be around durring the great floods.(maybe there was more than 1 Noah over 900 years)

This is probably the best information I have ever found on the Great Flood and Noah's story...with plenty of scientific proof: Scientific Creation
It's not so mysterious as you think...please...be open-minded and read through the information...God Bless.

It was a tough job, but apparently somebody had to do it. I have no doubts that some mistakes were made along the way.

It certainly is puzzling why God had to wipe out mankind with a flood and use Noah to save the animals. If you do a web search you will find that Noah was "perfect in his generations", that is his bloodline had not been currupted by copulation with annunaki. The flood was used to wipe out all those whose bloodline had become corrupted by the annunaki. Even if you can wrap your understanding around this, it is still hard to understand why God couldn't just wipe out all those who he considered to have sinned enough to deserve to die.

Originally posted by groingrinder
It was a tough job, but apparently somebody had to do it. I have no doubts that some mistakes were made along the way.

It certainly is puzzling why God had to wipe out mankind with a flood and use Noah to save the animals. If you do a web search you will find that Noah was "perfect in his generations", that is his bloodline had not been currupted by copulation with annunaki. The flood was used to wipe out all those whose bloodline had become corrupted by the annunaki. Even if you can wrap your understanding around this, it is still hard to understand why God couldn't just wipe out all those who he considered to have sinned enough to deserve to die.

it's odd taht god was racist

i have a suggestion, we all know that species evolve. people evolve there had to be one race of people originally and we all adapted off of that race. we are still people though. just like species of birds are still birds. what if in the time of noah there wasn't near the amount of species there are today? or what if he just got one of each type? per say one pair of dogs, one pair of birds...etc. and since then they have re developed into multiple species.

its just a thought don't be too harsh/

i found that intersting site..

The Descendants of Noah Tribe