On Apr 29, 8:39 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
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Calif Bill wrote:
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On Apr 28, 8:11?pm, "tak" wrote:
From another NG, for long cruises and rainy weather?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe....ap/index.html
There are villagers in Eastern Turkey who not only believe that the
story of Gilgamesh (or Noah) is literally true, they believe that what
remains of his boat is buried in mud along a river that runs nearby.
Aerial photography seems to confirm that there is something that
*could be* a large, double-ended boat.

One of the believers has constructed a site:

http://www.noahsark-naxuan.com/arkmodel.htm

Interesting factoid about "gopher" wood:

Translations of Genesis into English normally have Yaweh instructing
Moses to build his ark of "gopher wood". Unfortunately, there is no no
such thing as "gopher wood"........however, the symbols for the sounds
of G and K are very similar in the Hebrew alphabet and the word
"Kopher" means "protected", so Kopher wood wold be protected wood, and
could be any wood covered in pitch, tar, resin, etc.

I wonder if the guy who built the modern version of the ark is really
going to try to launch it? Looks to me like it has a ridiculously high
COG. Over she goes in the first decent blow. As it is, it reminds me
of those roadside attractions we used to see traveling around in the
50's and 60's. Big plywood sign in a farmer's field: "See Noah's Ark!
Only 75 miles ahead!" Then while everybody is eating snow cones and
marveling at the models of giraffes and elephants in the ark the
parking lot crew is wiring paper signs to the chromed rear
bumpers..... "Noah's Ark! See it Near Centerville!"

The Dutch model is probably closer to the design. It would have been a
large retangular barge shape. There was no need for a double ended,
steerable design. It just needed to float. With a large load aboard.

You actually believe those biblical fairy tales? Figures.

Believe it or not, the boat design would have been barge like. As to
world floods, yes there have been. At least once, Indian legends in
South America talk of a great flood. If you look at the coal seams in
Kentucky, Appalachia they are all at about the same elevation and there
had to be huge amounts of lumber piled up to make the size seams they
find. Think of a tidal wave washing over the earth. Maybe Noah saw the
big asteroid coming to clean up the earth?

D'oh. I wasn't questioning whether there was a flood. I was asking whether
you believed biblical fairy tales.

All the tales have some basis in fact. Even Merlin the Sorcerer.- Hide quoted text -

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Let's stipulate for the purpose of discussion that the bible is based
on fact, in fact the word of God. Even so, it is only the word as
interpreted by men, with a very limited point of refernce, in a
culture that for eons has embraced if not encouraged exageration. Even
today in that part of the world exageration is not only accepted, but
expected. Even beleivers like myself understand that after so many
translations by men, it can not be taken literlally. Only killers and
liars take it literally, and then only to use it against and control
their populations.