Catholic and Enjoying It!
Some Evangelicals think they have found Noah’s Ark. This is the sort of story that gets nine-day-wonder play in the MSM, is trumpeted as “proof” of the Bible by Fundamentalists whether Evangelical or Conservative Catholic (you watch, it will show up on Bob Sungenis’ site along with “Dinosaurs lived alongside man” and “Pyramids prove the flood” articles.
Meanwhile, what we actually know is that some Evangelicals *think* they have found Noah’s Ark and have issues a press release to that effect. Our information so far consists of a picture of a guy in a little wooden structure. They say the thing dates from 2800 BC, which is allegedly “around the same time the ark was said to be afloat”. (That, in itself, is a somewhat dodgy claim). They say it’s found at 13,000 ft on Mount Ararat, which is surely an intriguing thing and worth investigating more. How did it get there? Does it actually have the measurements of the biblical ark? If not, then couldn’t it just be some structure that somebody built for some reason? Obviously there’s something there, since the Turks want to investigate it. But I think the smart money is pretty clearly on “wait and see” before leaping to the Ark conclusion.
On the other hand, what fun grist for a novel! The great thing about fiction is that you just make stuff up! I’ve got some ideas on that score!
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