Has Noah's Ark been discovered

Answer 1

Yes, Noah's ark existed. But it undoubtedly would have rotted away after the great flood. The ark was made of cypress wood. So the ark's materials ultimately would have decayed and returned to nature. At the minimum, the ark's bottom would have been exposed to heavy doses of moisture.

Answer 2

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Noah's ark is real. Some say the ship's remains were unearthed 15 miles south of mt. ararat (due to earthquake) in the ararat mountain ranges near turkey. it was uncovered by a research team lead by Ron wyatts in 1991 - the site was 1st seen in 1971 but was disregarded thought to be just a freak of nature. but continued research on the site supposedly revealed remains of an ancient boat precisely similar to the size of that written in The Bible.

Answer 3

Think about it, if the flood was over little Noah and his animals and family got off the ark cold and needed a fire to keep them warm. Wouldn't you use the wood from the ark to make a fire? Just saying. Also all these things about 'we found Noah's Ark tell everything', it's most likely to be a lie because think about all those ships that have sunk and that we don't know about; our history books don't say everything:). Sorry if i crushed your dreams if you wanted to go try and find Noah's ark:)

Answer 4

AnswerSome live in hope that Noah's Ark will one day be found. However, scholars say that the story of Noah's Ark is really based on an even older myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh. If the story is a myth, there never was a Noah's Ark and it will never be found.

Answer 5

No. The Story of Noah's Ark is a story of myth and legend, similar to many other even older stories in the ancient Near East. Another well-known version of the same story is to be found in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Some believe that the flood stories of the Near East did have a historical basis, although not a flood that engulfed the whole earth. They believe that flood stories like Noah's Ark originated in 5600 BCE, when the Mediterranean Sea broke through the Bosporus and flooded the low-lying, fertile plain that became the Black Sea. This inundation would have seemed to be a great flood that would surely engulf the whole world. Stories of miraculous escapes became the myths and legends of the future.

Answer 6

There is no solid evidence of the Ark itself, but there is evidence of a great flood that was felt world wide. The oral traditions of most early cultures tell of a great flood and some historians believe it really did occur. There are core samples taken that show mass flooding in many different areas all at around the same time as well.

However, if the Ark was real, there's no way it could have held enough animals to account for the genetic diversity needed to sustain a species. If it did happen, it was on a much smaller scale than what the story tells.

Answer 7

Although many orthodox Christians may not agree, the scientific answer is no. Noe's story is only the Biblical variation of a number of very similar stories known at the time in many cultures in the Middle East, the most famous - and earlier - version being the Epic of Gilgamesh.

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The fact that the narrative of the Flood and one family being saved, is related by peoples in widely-scattered countries, points to its being an actual event.

Answer 8

No. It is simply the Hebrew story that developed out of an earlier myth known in its earliest form from the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Not only was Noah's Ark not real, the biblical story of the Ark came to the Hebrew people via two different routes and ended up in the Bible as two different, sometimes contradictory stories in the Bible, carefully woven together so that to a casual reader they seem to be just one story.

The Yahwist, who is believed to have lived in the eighth or ninth century BCE, is responsible for passing on the story in Genesis 6:5-8, 7:1-5, 7:7, 7:10, 7:12, 7:16b-17, 7:22-23, 8:2b-3a, 8:6, 8:8-12, 8:13b, 8:20-22.

The Priestly source, who is believed to have lived during the time of the Babylonian Exile, is responsible for the parallel story in Genesis 6:9-22, 7:6, 7:8-9, 7:11, 7:13-16a, 7:18-21, 7:24, 8:1-2a, 8:3b-5, 8:7, 8:13a, 8:14-19, 9:1-17.

Answer 9

No one has discovered Noah's Ark and no one is ever likely to do so. However several have claimed to have found the Ark. Some of the more prominent are:

Navarra
According to Fernand Navarra, a French industrialist and amateur mountaineer, (J'ai trouvé L'Arche de Noé ) on negotiating a gully on slightly sloping terrain high up on the Mount Ararat he saw "through the thickness of ice, some dark and intermingled outlines. These could only be fragments of the Ark." Digging his way through the ice, Navarra claimed that he "touched with numbed fingers a piece of wood, not just something from a tree branch, but wood that had been shaped and squared off." By way of 'proof' of this, Navarra brought down with him a broken-off spar. Radio-carbon dating by the University of Pennsylvania's Radiocarbon Laboratory dated this to approximately 650 CE, while the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington in Britain, arrived at approximately 760 CE. In other words, the timbers were probably from the hut of a Byzantine hermit.

Institute for Creation Research
In 1971, expeditions to Ararat were mounted under the auspices of the Institute for Creation Research. Although one such expedition, led by 'arkeologist' John Morris, claimed several sightings of their supposed ark, they returned with nothing to show.

Wyatt, Fasold and Roberts
In 1960 a Turkish army captain named Ilhan Durupinar, in the course of examining aerial photos of the Ararat region that had been taken for NATO's Geodetic Survey of Turkey, happened to notice on these what appeared to be a large boat-like object lying at an altitude of some 1,900 metres. In 1977, 'biblical archaeologist' Ron Wyatt flew to Turkey to investigate. Convinced by what he saw, Wyatt published Discovered: Noah's Ark, in 1989. The same year also saw the appearance of a book by former merchant marine officer David Fasold, The Ark of Noah, following much the same argument.

A year later Australian 'Dr' Allen Roberts visited the site. In collaboration with Wyatt, he then founded an organisation called Ark Search, and like Wyatt and Fasold began widely publicising that the Akyayla boat-shaped feature was rhe true Noah's ark.

Fasold, Wyatt and Roberts have also made much of "subsurface radar surveys" of the Akyayla feature, purportedly showing it to have a ship-like structure in the interior parts to which no one has yet gained access.

Ian Plimer, Professor of Geology at Australia's Melbourne University, visited the Akyayla site with Fasold in 1994. He found it impossible to repeat any of the various radar, seismic, magnetic and electromagnetic tests claimed by Wyatt. According to Plimer's professional judgement the Akyayla boat is simply an outcrop of 120 million year old sea floor rocks (ophiolite), around which a more modern (and still moving) mud slide has flowed, this slide even having bits of plastic embedded in it. Apparently Fasold himself came to recognise that what Wyatt had argued to be "boat ribs" were no longer evident, concluding that these must have been deliberately scraped into the soil to appear as they did in Wyatt's photographs. He no longer accepts that the outcrop is really Noah's Ark.