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Religion Today with Martin Tanner - Noah's Ark, the Evidence

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Noah and the Ark is a fascinating Biblical story beginning in Genesis 6:6 and ending in Genesis 9:17.  Was there a global flood?  Was there a massive, but local flood in the ancient Near-East?  (The current state of the evidence favors the latter).  There are many ancient accounts from various civilizations, the earliest one currently known, is the "King List" dating to about 2,300 BC.  Perhaps the most famous is the Epic of Gilgamesh, dating to about 1,600 BC or so.

Many today, particular evangelical Christians, associate Mt. Ararat in present day Turkey as the place Noah's Ark came to rest.  But Genesis 8:4 says "the mountains of Ararat" not a specific mountain.  The mountains of Ararat are associated with a series of mountain in the ancient kingdom of Urartu, not today's Mt. Ararat.

The point of the story of Noah and the ark is for people to be good, moral and not harm each other.  Perhaps that should be the focus, not trying to find an ancient ark, made of wood, from about 5,500 years ago.  It would be highly unlikely that anything of wood from that long ago would survive until today.

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