I don't believe genetics were an issue until Man discovered them. Have you noticed how diseases have become smarter and stronger? Knowledge+sin=smarter death. The more we try to become like God without a relationship with God, the more we find out he's smarter than us.
This is the first I've ever heard of a discovery of an actual heavy timber structure on the mountain and above 10,000 ft. Do you have any references to any earlier such reports?
>>> And if THAT'S the ark, it pretty much blows the "two by two" animal story all to hell, cause... they won't fit!
At an elevation of more than 4,000 metres, I saw a structure built with plank-like timber. Each plank was about 8 inches wide. I could see tenons, proof of ancient construction predating the use of metal nails. We walked about 100 metres to another site. I could see broken wood fragments embedded in a glacier, and some 20 metres long.
The wood structure discovered by the team is broken, so members entered the structure through various openings. Up to now, the team has discovered seven spaces. One of the team members, Wing-cheung YEUNG explains during the press conference (please refer to the DVD):
One of the spaces discovered is frozen by ice. Under ice is wood with wood beam above. There is tenon construction on the wall and it is obvious artificial structure.
The space witnessed by Panda Lee is L-shaped. This is the first discovered space. It’s L-shaped and its features match well with some spaces discovered later, like tenon construction. We concluded that it was originally a box-shaped room and heavily decomposed.
This space stands at more than 5 metres high. Team members had to get through a broken opening and abseil down to get inside. All walls are wood and the space is not box-shaped. Strictly speaking, the walls are not vertical but rather curved and inclined. The small door on one side, of dimensions one meter high and half meter width, presumably leads to another space but our team did not risk going further due to the lack of oxygen.
This room is box-shaped, having a dimension of height, width and length of more than two metres. There is a wooden beam with wooden nails on one side of the wall. It is believed that a rope was hooked on these nails to keep animals in place. On another side of the wall, there are racks.
A very small tunnel-like space connects two spaces.
A few wooden staircases were found inside the structure, which seemingly craved by tree logs. Our team climbed one and found a door in the ceiling and concluded the wood structure has more than one floor. We tried to open it but failed. Since we did not want to destroy the structure, we will try again with appropriate equipment in the future.
The team has not entered this space. They viewed and took shots from a small opening above. The height and width are estimated to be 5 metres and 12 metres respectively.
If the above is true, it certainly indicates a very large, heavy, man-made wooden structure.
At over 13,000' ASL?
If this does indeed prove genuine, what will it mean to people? What effect will it have?
This space stands at more than 5 metres high. Team members had to get through a broken opening and abseil down to get inside. All walls are wood and the space is not box-shaped. Strictly speaking, the walls are not vertical but rather curved and inclined. The small door on one side, of dimensions one meter high and half meter width, presumably leads to another space but our team did not risk going further due to the lack of oxygen.
It does sound curiously like the hull of a boat, not a normal wall. If just proven to be a boat hull from that time period, one would have to wonder what it is doing 13,000 feet up a mountain side.
The ark was first 'discoverd " back in the late 40's. I've been hearing stories about it all my life. There was a tv show hosted by Leonard Nimoy years ago that did a segment on it. the problem has always been the Turkish govt. refusal to let anyone get really close to it. There have been pic's floating around since the 60's..http://www.noahsark-naxuan.com/1.htm
There was rcently a show on discovery about the "great flood".. One of the theories was that the black sea was once dry. the mediterranean broke through at the point where Istanbul is now flooding the entire region. the say somewhere around 5,000 years or ago.
The "discovery" you mention above is not the same, it was just a shape in the geology, no wooden structure was ever discovered there. Totally different location.
I know for a fact I watched a special about the Ark on Discovery (or History, I get them confused) at LEAST 3 years ago, because I've been in my new house for 2 years. It was in Turkey, built out of an extinct tree, yadda yadda. Some dude had found it, but Turkish Govt. Wouldn't let a team in to do a full expedition or something.
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Okay, I just tried to find info on THAT discovery. Turns out it was faked by a dude in '93. Why the heck would Discovery show that...?
I was looking at that earlier.............................right off the bat, "It's The Ark"...............................are you kidding? If it was the size of an aircraft carrier, it still wouldn't be big enough. Good entertainment though.
It takes faith to believe in God or the Bible - not proof. "Evidence" can always be interpreted one way or another, but the feelings in your heart about God can only be ignored, not denied.
This story is interesting, but it does not add or subtract one iota to my faith.