On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 pcjones5@comcast.net wrote:
> Another link with more textual content:
> http://www.livescience.com/history/060309_the_ark.html
>
> -Phil
>
Stories like this have popped up every once in a while for many years. A
careful study of the Genesis account should not lead anyone to look for
the ark on Mt. Ararat. Ararat was the name of a kingdom (Jeremiah 51:27)
or a land (II Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38). The mountains (or hills) of
Ararat is not a precise description of a location. At a time when a bird
couldn't find any land above water in the vicinity of the ark, tops of
mountains were visible even though Mt. Ararat is the highest mountain in
the region. Olive trees existed at the altitude of the ark. It took
several months for the water to recede far enough for Noah to evacuate the
ark. How much longer would it have taken to totally expose a 17,000 foot
mountain?
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
Received on Sun Mar 12 20:30:51 2006
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