Sunday, March 12, 2006

Hey Peter! He fell for it!

There is a Christian, science-skeptical, blog floating around the blogosphere which is running excerpts from this article about Noah’s Ark possibly being still buried up on Mt. Ararat, Turkey.

Now look, there is one simple, fundamental problem with the whole idea. The spot they figure the Ark landed is over 15,000 feet above current sea level…that’s 2.8 MILES above sea level.

I tried to do the math and hurt myself. But it’s safe to say that’s a lot of water, no? Where is that water now? If it was locked in the poles as ice, it would have to be hundreds of miles deep - you could climb into space.

Of course the mountain may have risen since Biblical times, but 10,000 years is nothing in geological time, so it was already about the same height it is now when the Flood is supposed to have occurred.

No, the answer is clear. God tricked Noah. Made him climb up a mountain and build a boat. God said later “Cripes, I didn’t think he’d really do it. What an idiot.”

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If nothing else, Mt. Ararat will be put on the map. Maybe with some craft booths, with cute little Noah Ark's.

Lons said...

I think you're overlooking the tricksiness of Satan in all this. Clearly, he has just made the mountain APPEAR taller than it really is in order to make you doubt your faith. In the same way he buries fake dinosaur bones. I mean...duh...