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Noah's Ark Found...

DSE said:
Exactly. But I also don't think you even need a real event to see how a story like this might become popular. They still show a lot of Godzilla movies here, but that doesn't mean that they're based on a really big lizard being found somewhere.
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The Noah's Ark story ends with a rainbow explanation, as God's covenant. The two don't really go together - the rainbow thing sounds like it was tacked on to the story.
Imagine - you're living thousands of years ago and what the heck is that multi-colored arc in the sky? You have no idea why it's there or what it is. Just people trying to explain something that they don't understand.
 
It's to tell from a cropped photo, and me not being an image analyst, if the object in question is anomalous in comparison to the other things surrounding it. If so, it is probably worth it for the person interested in it to study it further, whether it is an ark or not.
 
Calling a geologic feature an "anomaly" doesn't make it an "anomaly", and an "anomaly" is not equivalent to "Noah's Ark". The only honest answer they can give is "We don't know what this is."

Looks like part of the mountain, or a buildup of ice because of wind. Certainly not a boat of any kind.
 
T'ai Chi said:
It's to tell from a cropped photo, and me not being an image analyst, if the object in question is anomalous in comparison to the other things surrounding it. If so, it is probably worth it for the person interested in it to study it further, whether it is an ark or not.
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The textures, "color", etc. are quite similar to those found in the terrain at the lower left corner of the picture, to wich it is also linked by a narrow "bridge". Both areas also seems to share similar elevations. Looks like the erosional remmant of a larger terrain, partially visible at the lower left corner of the image.
 
Pyrrho said:
Calling a geologic feature an "anomaly" doesn't make it an "anomaly", and an "anomaly" is not equivalent to "Noah's Ark".
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I agree. Glad no one said that "anomaly" means something other than what the word anomaly means. :)

My point was that if its features are oddly different from the features of things around it, it might be worth understanding what it is and why. Perhaps there's some man-made object, or perhaps an odd weathering process is at work?
 
T'ai Chi said:
My point was that if its features are oddly different from the features of things around it, it might be worth understanding what it is and why. Perhaps there's some man-made object, or perhaps an odd weathering process is at work?
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Tai, I agree with you in spirit, but I think you'd have to do a lot better than this picture to merit any real interest. There is a long history of people finding "strange" structures they think are noah's ark that turn out to be completely normal. In fact, with all the variety, you'd expect some mountains structures to look a little like boats. I'm not saying don't ever investigate anything like this, but you have to admit this one has a very low likelihood of proving to be anything interesting. With only so much time and resources, it seems like it might be better to focus energy elsewhere.

I mean:
  1. The story itself is extremely suspect
  2. Even if true, the size is incorrect
  3. Even if the size doesn't matter, it's not how one would expect a wooden ship to be preserved
  4. Plus one would expect people to find many normal structures that looked boat-like in mountains if they were specifically looking for them
 
Re-reading this thread made me think of another possibility. Maybe this is just a ploy by some geologists to get some money and attention for their favorite geological analmoly. You'd have to be pretty naive to think this could be Noah's ark, even if you were a stauch literalist flood believer.

Which of course opens a whole new set of questions, moral, ethical, and scientific....
 
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