First, to give u guys a reality check
http://www.csun.edu/~vcgeo005/bogus.html
Even from your christian answer website,
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-abr/abr-a001.html
Unfortunately, return visits to
proposed sites have produced no further evidence, the whereabouts
of all photographs are presently unknown, and different sightings
do not suggest the same location on the mountain. Furthermore,
Astronaut James Irwin has since died, a purported eyewitness has
recently recanted publicly, and there have been few new expeditions
up the mountain in the 1990s. Further expeditions have taken place
in the new millennium, but no proof of the Ark has yet been
found.
Tat is a bogus. It is formed naturally. Just because u see the
shape of a dustbowl doesn't make it Noah's ark. There r some more
interesting stories on it
Yet, as preposterous as this
story seems, there are people in the twentieth century who claim
they have found Noah's ark. They call themselves "arkeologists."
Yes, they say that when the flood receded, Noah and his zoo were
perched upon the top of Mt. Ararat in Turkey. Presumably, at that
time, all the animals dispersed to the far recesses of the earth.
How the animals got to the different continents, we are not told.
Perhaps they floated there on debris. More problematic is how so
many species survived when they had been reduced to just one pair
or seven pairs of creatures. Also, you would think that the
successful species that had the furthest to travel, would have left
a trail of offspring along the way. What evidence is there that all
species originated in Turkey? That's what the record should look
like if the ark landed on Mt. Ararat.
During his show, Jammal produced
what he called "sacred wood" from the ark, which he later admitted
was wood taken from railroad tracks in Long Beach, California,
which he had hardened by cooking in an oven. He also prepared other
fake wood by frying a piece of California pine on his kitchen stove
in a mix of wine, iodine, sweet-and-sour and teriyaki sauces. He
also admitted that he had never been to Turkey. The program was
produced by Sun International Pictures, based in Salt Lake City,
and responsible for several pseudo-documentaries on Nostradamus,
the Bermuda Triangle, the Shroud of Turin, and UFOs.
Maybe words from me is not concrete enough for u, hope this pHD,
even some from MIT could help u.
Frankly, the names u showed me prove nothing. The buddhist,
muslims and freethinkers themselves etc also have their version of
scientists who support their idea. So who has the most number of
scientists means they r right ? If u look at figures, 93% of the
members of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) are nontheists. U
just come out with a list of scientists from a 5 billion population
of the world... frankly it is not impressive...
LEt me give a few quotes here as well
The more a man is imbued with the
ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction
that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity
for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human
nor the rule of divine will exists as an independent cause of
natural events. To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God
interfering with natural events could never be refuted [italics
his], in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always
take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not
yet been able to set foot. But I am convinced that such behavior on
the part of representatives of religion would not only be unworthy
but also fatal. For a doctrine which is to maintain itself not in
clear light but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect
on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress. In their
struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the
stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up
that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast
power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to
avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating
the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is,
to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy
task
Albert Einstein
My objection to Christianity is
that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add,
infinitely absurd.
The notion that faith in Christ
is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon
reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too
absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy
mixture of insanity and ignorance called 'faith'
Robert Ingersoll
Religion prevents our children
from having a rational education; religion prevents us from
removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from
teaching the ethic of scientific cooperation in place of the old
fierce doctrines of sin and punishment. It is possible that mankind
is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be
necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this
dragon is religion
Religion is something left over
from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt
reason and science as our guidelines
We may define "faith" as the firm
belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is
evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that
two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of
faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The
substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife,
since different groups, substitute different emotions.
Bertrand Russell
