One for Min?

[Digit]

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/171 ... een-found-

Roy.

[Minimalist]

RELIGIOUS explorers claim to have discovered the remains of Noah’s Ark –

'Nuff said!

[Digit]

The only difference as far as I understand it Min is that they dig faithfully!

Roy.

[Minimalist]

I think the difference is they decide what they are going to find before they leave home to find it.

[Digit]

Well you have to admit that probably cuts down on the digging time!
Not so different to the Clovis first bunch though, they stop going down once they'd reached the Clovis level.
I'd like to know what they have found though.

Roy.

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Eric Cline referred to them as Ark-eologists this morning.

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Just a hoax apparently.

http://www.newser.com/story/87318/evide ... -hoax.html


Problem is, 20 years from now there will still be people like You-Know-Who that swear its real.

[Digit]

said American ark expert

Ark expert?

Roy.

[Minimalist]

An ark-eologist.

[Digit]

A bit like an expert on extra-terrestrials isn't it?

Roy.

[Minimalist]

A good analogy.

[Minimalist]

This fellow has a point.....it DOES look like styrofoam!


http://robertcargill.com/2010/05/01/doe ... am-to-you/

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More from Cargill....


http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/flood357903.shtml

[Rokcet Scientist]

More from Cargill....

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/flood357903.shtml

A nice read. But easy to shoot holes in. For instance:

there are two different numbers given for the number of animals on the ark: one pair (male and female) in Genesis 6, and seven pairs of clean and one pair of unclean (male and female) in Genesis 7. The integration of two different numbers is evidence of two originally separate flood accounts.

His logic leaves to be desired here, imo:

1) I wouldn't be surprised if the cuneiform characters for 1 and 7 were as easily mixed up as our Arabic numbers are. They have the same root. And cuneiform was handwriting. All too easily misread. Just put your wife's handwriting next to yours. It's not printing.

2) "the integration" – or was it mix-up – "of two different numbers is evidence"...? Evidence? At most it is a possible indication. Not evidence.

And there's another couple dozen instances of 'fast logic' like that in there.

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The Documentary Hypothesis...which has taken a few hits in recent decades...suggested that the reason for the different numbers of animals had to do with the later ascendancy of the priestly class which made its living by sacrificing animals. If you sacrifice one of the "two" you quickly run out of sacrificial victims as no more can be born.

Regardless, we have no indication of a written Hebrew text prior to the Dead Sea Scrolls. The earliest OT is in Greek...which upsets you- know-who something fierce.