The ark is as much a fiction as the 600-year-man who allegedly built it alongside his ancient sons (none of whom had shipbuilding experience). And bottom line? "The Great Flood" itself is a myth stolen from an earlier myth.
I suspect some ancient goat herder constructed a raft to rescue his animals from a local flood, and from there the story got completely out of hand. ;)
Dumb Idiot Ham threw a fit when news came out that archaeologists in Mesopotamia discovered valid evidence of boats being made from animal skins that can be inflated like balloons. They're so strong that they can carry heavy loads from building materials to a menagerie of animals. That could be one of the many factors that leads to the creation of the Noah's Flood Myth besides the Jewish Rabbis in Babylonian captivity hearing the Epic of Gilgamesh and decided to write their own version of the creation and flood myths as told in the Book of Genesis.
When I was growing up in the Reformed Baptist church (and that is Calvinism on anabolic steroids!), we were told that God cursed Ham with the stain of "blackness", which is why black people are savages and cannot be saved.
👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Yea, Reformed Baptists, Reformed Presbtyrians, Orthodox Presbyterians, and Christian Reformed (youre not much if youre not Dutch)!!!!! TULIP forever!
Snakes without vocal cords CAN so talk! It’s another Festivus miracle!!!
Exactly. How the fictitious is able to win over these people and kick aside all the more science with so much blind confidence, it's something when these people are unable to literally ask themselves who they are and why this is current.
Hey, you know devotion is something when those numbers shoot up on over 100,000 after taking another look. Just seeing the comments there―Hemant really knew how to shame idiocy at its finest.
Even I'm seeing how much they're donating to this supposed 'self-certainty', and the addition to what's required in reaching that fated answer finally, I guess.
"But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more."
It isn't limited to Christians; believers of all stripes are desperate to have their beliefs validated and are prone to grasping at straws. The whole story of Noah and his big wooden boat is nothing but Bronze Age nonsense. If the Bible is the genuine word of God, then you'd think the discoveries of science would be confirming the Bible rather than contradicting it. No discovery of science has ever pointed to the truth of any religious dogma.
I'd like to see them explain how the big boat came to rest on a dead world that's been underwater for a year. The sheer weight and size would've have caused it to sink into the mud and vanish without a trace along with all aboard it. And even if they did somehow survive, what would they have been breathing? All the oxygen-bearing trees and plants are no more.
Oh, and where did all that floodwater go, exactly?
Where did it come from? Was drowning everything on earth the only way a divine being who supposedly willed the universe into existence could correct a mistake he had to know he was making when he made it? Couldn't he just snap his fingers and things all better?
I'm still trying to find out why we're all here if being trolled from above was among the ultimate reasons that specific deity among many today is just simply lonely.
Not to mention there were other cultures from that time who survived and kept records, none mentioning a giant flood and 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
Hey, upon finding this, we could possibly find that fish Jonah was in for so many days this time, too. Y'know, how Samson's character today and how even that's believable wouldn't surprise me if he was of finding out next.
Had Jonah been swallowed by a sperm whale (er, giant fish), he would have died within minutes via suffocation. After that, he would have been crushed by the animal's stomach chamber. After that, his lifeless body would have been subjected to its digestive fluids (strong hydrochloric acid and enzymes).
How those are current claims of whichever one―even today being amongst that trend of ignorance. And yet, even I question why they're sitting in those wheelchairs awaiting what simply will never be.
“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility.
If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.”
This group has been claiming this since like the 50's and one of my cousins was spreading the claims as fact yesterday because of the Daily Mail. They also were saying they disproved Darwinism and evolution as well, which is wild to me. An Ark doesn't prove anything, and their entire support is organic sentiment, dubious claims, location and that nature doesn't have right angles. All of which doesn't disprove anything. This group is also doing it to raise money again. So sensationalist and the Daily Mail is such a rag for this shit.
They think they disproved evolution while relying on evolution with insanely rapid speciation rates in order to fit all the animals on the magic zoo boat. Which is definitely not the glacial deposits at the Druipinar site.
So the “global flood” was only 4300 years ago? My goodness, that’s relatively recent, approx 2300 BCE!
I don’t know how much more stupidity can come from the delusional religious dimwits? I mean, really. They only exacerbate the view that they have completely poisoned whatever little remaining intelligence they may have had at one point. Religion makes you stupid, period. If you believe this foolish nonsense, I have a bridge I’d like to show you! It’s in Brooklyn!
Ooooh, Ooooh, Ooooh, let's also search for the Unicorn, the Pot of Gold, Big Foot, a once missing Glass Slipper, Ogres, Trolls, Ghosts, and a burning bush that talks!!!
The Asian Ki-Rin or Qilin is often depicted as a one-horned creature, sometimes similar to a Chinese dragon or a cross between a dragon and a deer, ox, horse or goat. The word "kirin" in modern Japanese means "giraffe".
"Before you think any more about that, though, you should know Witzke doesn’t have any credentials here either. She’s a self-described Christian Nationalist and former Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Delaware. (She lost in a landslide.) She has also promoted QAnon, described herself as a Flat Earther, and produced an anti-vaccine conspiracy movie. Not exactly someone with a long history of honesty. Or knowing anything about science.
Right Wing Watch posted a round-up of the worst things she’s said over the years. It’s not pretty."
Here's a link that doesn't make you visit Elmo's Nazibar to see the absolute cray-cray that is Lauren Witzke:
If Lauren WhizBang is connected to anything, hold onto your wallet. She's a laughingstock, former professional political candidate from my home state of Delaware. People have been trying to sell that natural formation as the 'resting place of Noah's Ark' for decades just because it's vaguely boat shaped. What they never mention in their rush to declare it 'Noah's Ark' is that it's NOT on Mt. Ararat, the supposed resting place of the ark. It's 18 miles away. On the wrong mountain. Oops!
I've read a lot of creationist books claiming to have seen Noah's Ark in various places all over Mt. Ararat. Never mind that Ararat is actually a mountain range and that what they show in their books and videos are all likely doctored photos taken of boat shaped formations found all over a mountain in Ararat, Turkey made by creationists who parade these fakes all over their media and literature. And what about the ark they illustrated to be either a box shaped vessel with rows of windows atop the roof in the middle or a wooden oil tanker as imagined by that Dumb Idiot Ken Ham?
Seriously, do they really have any kind of valid evidence for such sightings? The real answer to that question is undoubtedly "no."
The ark is as much a fiction as the 600-year-man who allegedly built it alongside his ancient sons (none of whom had shipbuilding experience). And bottom line? "The Great Flood" itself is a myth stolen from an earlier myth.
Epic fail.
I suspect some ancient goat herder constructed a raft to rescue his animals from a local flood, and from there the story got completely out of hand. ;)
Dumb Idiot Ham threw a fit when news came out that archaeologists in Mesopotamia discovered valid evidence of boats being made from animal skins that can be inflated like balloons. They're so strong that they can carry heavy loads from building materials to a menagerie of animals. That could be one of the many factors that leads to the creation of the Noah's Flood Myth besides the Jewish Rabbis in Babylonian captivity hearing the Epic of Gilgamesh and decided to write their own version of the creation and flood myths as told in the Book of Genesis.
I guess you mean rafts like those described and shown in this article on a boating blog?
https://www.barcheamotore.com/the-father-or-rather-grandfather-of-the-inflatable-boat-it-is-called-kellek-it-is-made-from-inflated-skins-and-it-comes-from-ancient-mesopotamia/?lang=en
Yes, I do.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c24b2faddb87bd1383984c9daee159e113acaf5c9b925e9940bee65724360e21.jpg
Stealing this… 😄
When I was growing up in the Reformed Baptist church (and that is Calvinism on anabolic steroids!), we were told that God cursed Ham with the stain of "blackness", which is why black people are savages and cannot be saved.
(I know. I know.... 🙄)
👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 Yea, Reformed Baptists, Reformed Presbtyrians, Orthodox Presbyterians, and Christian Reformed (youre not much if youre not Dutch)!!!!! TULIP forever!
Snakes without vocal cords CAN so talk! It’s another Festivus miracle!!!
Cool!
Epic of Gilgamesh. :)
“ Trump is building a Christian kingdom.”
JEsus said, “MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD.”
I’ll have a double macchiato with AI in the basement.
Cool story, bro.
I first read about these claims in the 80s when Science News did a feature on it. No conclusive evidence could be found.
So unoriginal to boot.
They always are.
Exactly. How the fictitious is able to win over these people and kick aside all the more science with so much blind confidence, it's something when these people are unable to literally ask themselves who they are and why this is current.
Oh yeah the guy that was a drunk nudist.
Hey, you know devotion is something when those numbers shoot up on over 100,000 after taking another look. Just seeing the comments there―Hemant really knew how to shame idiocy at its finest.
They found Noah's Ark! Again! At the Druipinar site! Again! Gullible people will give them money to explore it! Again!
And the grift goes on...
They found "evidence" of live brontosaurus-like dinosaurs surviving in the Congo basin of Africa! Send money so we can catch them!
/s
The Land that Time Forgot!!! Did they rescue Doug McClure?
If these gullible people would take the time to Google what a plunging anticline looks like, they could save themselves a lot of money.
Even I'm seeing how much they're donating to this supposed 'self-certainty', and the addition to what's required in reaching that fated answer finally, I guess.
How's the nightlife in ol' Lebanon? Got to get the important questions answered before we get on board with this plan.
It’s not the Paris of the Middle East anymore.
Chartreuse is more my color, actually.
"But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more."
-George Carlin
We sure could use his wisdom and humor right now.
Yes!
I miss him!
💯
What would Carlin have made of Trump and his regime (not to mention GQP voters).
Carlin would have torn Trump up so badly, Trump would demand George's arrest, or something else equally obnoxious.
😭😓🤭
Dictator for a Day: A MAGA Musical for the Masses.
For whatever it's worth:
A long time ago, when the earth was green,
There were more kinds of animals than you've ever seen.
There were sabertooths and mammoths, archaeopteryx,
And meerkats, moose, and millipedes in the mix.
There were mermaids and sirens in the deep blue sea,
Turned out they're mostly seals or a manatee.
A rhino far away looked like a horse with a horn,
And philosophers called it a unicorn.
Now in the Middle East, a big storm did brew,
With more precipitation than they were used to.
A fella named Noah said God told him to build
A boat before they all got killed.
And take some
Green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty-back camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, but don't you forget
Enough room for their food and their nests and shit.
Now, it took years for Noah to build that ark,
And chase down all the animals so they could embark.
Deforesting the neighborhood, growing feed,
And wrangling waiting animals because they’d breed.
They didn't have Komodo dragons or kangaroos,
No rattlesnakes or wildebeests or cockatoos,
No hungry hungry hippos, and sure as you're born,
Neither rhinoceroses nor unicorns.
Well, the rain came down, and the Ark hit the tide,
It had maybe four hundred species inside.
And unbeknownst to Noah, while things flooded there,
The rest of the world was spared.
Sorry, pal, we got
Records from the Chinese, they did just fine,
And Western Europeans, an unbroken line.
In North and South America, and Africa too,
So, Noah, the only one all wet was you.
The waters receded, and the rainbow was a sign
That God would never again flood the world -- but he was lyin’.
Because of global warming, we’ll be sunk someday,
But none of that is why you don't see unicorns play.
They're on a big magic island in the Irish Sea,
With hippogriffs and pegasi and a dragon or three.
Some goblins, orcs, and dwarves and elves and fairies too,
‘Cause they never know what stupid stuff the humans will do.
They turn those green alligators into purses and shoes,
And camels are beasts of burden they abuse.
So a pony at the Ren Faire, with a cardboard horn,
Is as close as you can get to a u... ni... corn.
Music: "The Unicorn" by Shel Silverstein
https://tomsmith.bandcamp.com/track/m-s-a-u-s-mostly-scientifically-accurate-unicorn-song
Fun song, and full of Silverstein's unique humor.
Lovely.
It isn't limited to Christians; believers of all stripes are desperate to have their beliefs validated and are prone to grasping at straws. The whole story of Noah and his big wooden boat is nothing but Bronze Age nonsense. If the Bible is the genuine word of God, then you'd think the discoveries of science would be confirming the Bible rather than contradicting it. No discovery of science has ever pointed to the truth of any religious dogma.
God's fucking with our minds, because he's a loving god. ~ Xtians
I'd like to see them explain how the big boat came to rest on a dead world that's been underwater for a year. The sheer weight and size would've have caused it to sink into the mud and vanish without a trace along with all aboard it. And even if they did somehow survive, what would they have been breathing? All the oxygen-bearing trees and plants are no more.
Oh, and where did all that floodwater go, exactly?
Where did it come from? Was drowning everything on earth the only way a divine being who supposedly willed the universe into existence could correct a mistake he had to know he was making when he made it? Couldn't he just snap his fingers and things all better?
Not enough water on/in Earth to cover the entire planet past the Himalayas.
Somebody was fibbin.’
It would have to rain at the rate of thirty feet per hour to cover all the land on earth in forty days.
If he knew the ultimate outcome to life, the universe, and everything; why bother creating it in the first place?
I'm still trying to find out why we're all here if being trolled from above was among the ultimate reasons that specific deity among many today is just simply lonely.
Cotton-Eye Joe!
Not to mention there were other cultures from that time who survived and kept records, none mentioning a giant flood and 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
They forgot.
Either that or they slept in that day! 🤪
Any number of possibilities except one: that it ever happened
No high-water marks on the Great Pyramids. Hmm. How'd we miss that?
Even Waterworld was better written than the flood in the bible.
I probably shouldn't admit this but I actually liked Waterworld (saw it during a San Diego Comic-Con back in the day). 😊
The late great Roger Corman proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that movies don't need to be 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 in order to be 𝘧𝘶𝘯. ;)
Sometimes the really bad ones are more fun.
They were breathing with the help of magic.
The floodwaters went into the basement of heaven. Plenty of space there. It’s in the bible.
You may as well ask a brick wall NG. You get the same response.
They know they can't look at their beliefs too closely. If they do, their whole worldview might just fall to pieces.
God made it rain until all the sewers backed up. Then He miraculously bored them out.
Hey, upon finding this, we could possibly find that fish Jonah was in for so many days this time, too. Y'know, how Samson's character today and how even that's believable wouldn't surprise me if he was of finding out next.
Had Jonah been swallowed by a sperm whale (er, giant fish), he would have died within minutes via suffocation. After that, he would have been crushed by the animal's stomach chamber. After that, his lifeless body would have been subjected to its digestive fluids (strong hydrochloric acid and enzymes).
The people who wrote the bible had no clue.
Someone checked and I think it was mentioned that the whale’s esophagus isn’t big enough for humans to pass through.
Sperm whales consume squid, including the giant ones that live deep down.
about anything, but they never let facts get in the way of a tall tale.
And how well this is drilled into these people damn near without fail, there's just no telling when cherry-picking becomes the ill issue for evidence.
They do this almost as often as they do the second coming of Christ
They cannot document the first coming.
And yet they do plays about that one every year
https://www.reddit.com/r/SatanicTemple_Reddit/comments/1bz7g7e/hows_everyones_punch_card_looking/
And the rapture !
How those are current claims of whichever one―even today being amongst that trend of ignorance. And yet, even I question why they're sitting in those wheelchairs awaiting what simply will never be.
“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility.
If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.”
Carl Sagan
I also love fantasy stories, books, and movies.
But you don't live your life thinking you'll find the Sword of Shannara.
Nope 🤣
What a bunch of gullible rubes. The myth of a gigantic zoo-boat is one of the most laughable stories in their book of made-up crap.
It'll forever be of obvious idiocy as today evolves, alongside the usage of the supposed tools needed to relocate to the next somehow.
This group has been claiming this since like the 50's and one of my cousins was spreading the claims as fact yesterday because of the Daily Mail. They also were saying they disproved Darwinism and evolution as well, which is wild to me. An Ark doesn't prove anything, and their entire support is organic sentiment, dubious claims, location and that nature doesn't have right angles. All of which doesn't disprove anything. This group is also doing it to raise money again. So sensationalist and the Daily Mail is such a rag for this shit.
They think they disproved evolution while relying on evolution with insanely rapid speciation rates in order to fit all the animals on the magic zoo boat. Which is definitely not the glacial deposits at the Druipinar site.
So the “global flood” was only 4300 years ago? My goodness, that’s relatively recent, approx 2300 BCE!
I don’t know how much more stupidity can come from the delusional religious dimwits? I mean, really. They only exacerbate the view that they have completely poisoned whatever little remaining intelligence they may have had at one point. Religion makes you stupid, period. If you believe this foolish nonsense, I have a bridge I’d like to show you! It’s in Brooklyn!
Ooooh, Ooooh, Ooooh, let's also search for the Unicorn, the Pot of Gold, Big Foot, a once missing Glass Slipper, Ogres, Trolls, Ghosts, and a burning bush that talks!!!
Hey now! Unicorns are real! /s
The KJV mentions unicorns not once but nine times.
Numbers 23:22
Numbers 34:8
Deuteronomy 33:17
Job 39:9
Job 39:10
Psalm 22:21
Psalm 29:6
Psalm 92:10
Isaiah 34:7
If you can't believe the bible, what CAN you believe? ;)
And there you have it!!!! /s
They're mentioned a lot too in Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn. Even MORE confirmation that they exist, man!/s
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e7fe1ab678963111cd975c3eb790ed0424052595e5fc176094ed02f06ade5f81.jpg
The Asian Ki-Rin or Qilin is often depicted as a one-horned creature, sometimes similar to a Chinese dragon or a cross between a dragon and a deer, ox, horse or goat. The word "kirin" in modern Japanese means "giraffe".
https://www.dndbeyond.com/search?q=Ki-rin
Look at the rhinoceros and you'll see an actual unicorn.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e7fe1ab678963111cd975c3eb790ed0424052595e5fc176094ed02f06ade5f81.jpg
Yes, real, but pink and invisible.
They are real to 8 yr old me. The Last Unicorn was/is my favorite movie 🦄
Real 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭, you mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQQ_-VuvGU
Watched this yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62pyfjnzIuc
And reptiles that give dietary advice, that one was my favorite!
"Before you think any more about that, though, you should know Witzke doesn’t have any credentials here either. She’s a self-described Christian Nationalist and former Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Delaware. (She lost in a landslide.) She has also promoted QAnon, described herself as a Flat Earther, and produced an anti-vaccine conspiracy movie. Not exactly someone with a long history of honesty. Or knowing anything about science.
Right Wing Watch posted a round-up of the worst things she’s said over the years. It’s not pretty."
Here's a link that doesn't make you visit Elmo's Nazibar to see the absolute cray-cray that is Lauren Witzke:
www.joemygod.com/2026/09/nutbag-group-claims-to-have-located-noahs-ark/
I'm just wondering how, if the earth were flat, the Ark would not just have drifted off the edge. No doubt God intervened.
To see that even Wikipedia is entertaining this to further lure-in the deluded with a ton of their own even, is hella laughable too.
They let anybody write in it.
If Lauren WhizBang is connected to anything, hold onto your wallet. She's a laughingstock, former professional political candidate from my home state of Delaware. People have been trying to sell that natural formation as the 'resting place of Noah's Ark' for decades just because it's vaguely boat shaped. What they never mention in their rush to declare it 'Noah's Ark' is that it's NOT on Mt. Ararat, the supposed resting place of the ark. It's 18 miles away. On the wrong mountain. Oops!
Lauren WhizBang! LMAO!!🤣
That's what people in Delaware call her. 😂 She's such a clown.
That’s fine. The believers failed geography as well. Apparently, North America is the Pharaoh’s summer home.
I've read a lot of creationist books claiming to have seen Noah's Ark in various places all over Mt. Ararat. Never mind that Ararat is actually a mountain range and that what they show in their books and videos are all likely doctored photos taken of boat shaped formations found all over a mountain in Ararat, Turkey made by creationists who parade these fakes all over their media and literature. And what about the ark they illustrated to be either a box shaped vessel with rows of windows atop the roof in the middle or a wooden oil tanker as imagined by that Dumb Idiot Ken Ham?
Seriously, do they really have any kind of valid evidence for such sightings? The real answer to that question is undoubtedly "no."
"Are you sure it's safe to store the gazelles right by the lions?
"It's fine."
The lions were (supposedly) on board for nearly a year. I wonder how many gazelles Noah brought along to feed the lions? 🤔😜
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/998cc5e920f3754313ca7058c6039966eba45f471233deb6d248977eaa77aa0f.png