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Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / July 2006NOAH'S LARK
I just saw a piece on CNN that some Christian archaeologist says he found Noah's Ark petrified on a mountainside in Iraq! Is it me or doesn't it take at least tens of thousands of years for wood to petrify?? >I just saw a piece on CNN that some Christian archaeologist says he > found Noah's Ark petrified on a mountainside in Iraq! > > Is it me or doesn't it take at least tens of thousands of years for > wood to petrify?? Oh, your confusing science with religion. Religion is BS, pure and simple. Don;'t mistake anything related to religion with facts, other than a few historical artifacts thrown for realism. But then, that's just my opinion . . . . . . > Is it me or doesn't it take at least tens of thousands of years for > wood to petrify?? Apparently under some circumstances (the exact right ones) wood can petrify in a shorter amount of time. This is about the only thing this find has going for it, IMO. > > Is it me or doesn't it take at least tens of thousands of years for > > wood to petrify?? > > Apparently under some circumstances (the exact right ones) wood can > petrify in a shorter amount of time. > This is about the only thing this find has going for it, IMO. Any idea what is the minimum time for wood to petrify? >> > Is it me or doesn't it take at least tens of thousands of years for >> > wood to petrify?? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Any idea what is the minimum time for wood to petrify? Depends on how much Viagra you took. Why? are you having some "issues"? > > Any idea what is the minimum time for wood to petrify? > > Depends on how much Viagra you took. > > Why? are you having some "issues"? LOL. Ah...okay I asked for that. :-) >I just saw a piece on CNN that some Christian archaeologist says he > found Noah's Ark petrified on a mountainside in Iraq! > > Is it me or doesn't it take at least tens of thousands of years for > wood to petrify?? It is you. In Yorkshire, England there is a carbonate rich spring (aka Mother Shipton's well or the 'Petrifying Well') where all manner of items (e.g. hats) are 'petrified'. The hats are not 10,000 years old - a couple of hundred according to http://www.timetravel-britain.com/05/April/shipton.shtml. > It is you. In Yorkshire, England there is a carbonate rich spring (aka > Mother Shipton's well or the 'Petrifying Well') where all manner of items > (e.g. hats) are 'petrified'. The hats are not 10,000 years old - a couple of > hundred according to > http://www.timetravel-britain.com/05/April/shipton.shtml. I don't think this really counts. It's one thing to encase something in minerals - is not true petrification *replacement* of material with minerals? KDC schrieb: > I just saw a piece on CNN that some Christian archaeologist says he > found Noah's Ark petrified on a mountainside in Iraq! > > Is it me or doesn't it take at least tens of thousands of years for > wood to petrify?? Oh, there are many internet-sites you can look for "Noah's arc". E.g. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49203. You can find it with every search-engine (I want not name only one with G). Therefore I typed only "Noah's Arc" and "Ararat" and "foto" OR "picture". I think this old peculiar formation on the Ararat, perhaps as old as the whole rock mass, could attract (!) the old stories of Gilgamesch and Noah (and...?); and afterwards one could narrate (!) about a ship which came above the Ararat. I suppose also 3,000 years ago one could see this formation. In many regions happened the same: peculiar formations (rocks) attracted/provoked stories; or stories emerged in an other way joined afterwards with certain formation of landscape. But - that's an other topic - I think: also the story/myth of Noah should be acknowledged as a precious example of treatment of very old human collective fears and esperances. [Excuse me, my English may be not very good, it's a foreign language.] Bye, Basty > KDC schrieb: > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > which came above the Ararat. I suppose also 3,000 years ago one could > see this formation. It's far from certain that the Biblical "mountains of Ararat" refer to the mountain today known as Ararat. It may be noted that pre-1979 editions of the Vulgate has translates it as _montes Armeniae_ ("mountains of Armenia") - Jerome was apparently in agreement with the modern scholars who think it refers to Urartu/Armenia. |
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