Re: ReNewAmerica: In search of Noah's Ark


Joe Cummings wrote:
On 31 May 2006 07:13:56 -0700, "jcon" <cirejcon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Robert J. Kolker wrote:
jspaceman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Over the past two months, I've been working behind the scenes with a
gentleman by the name of Ron Stewart. He is a skilled and devoted
researcher/analyst with a driving passion. His passion is to locate the
remains of Noah's Ark. Ron is convinced that he has the photographic
evidence that will lead to the discovery of these remains.
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Read it at http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/weaver/060530

What a futility! Even if they find the remains of a large boat whose age
is about 4000 years, it would not prove the story of the Flood is true.
There is not enough water on earth or in its atmosphere to produce
enough rain to cover over Mt. Everest plus fifteen cubits.

Bob Kolker

You're dealing with people who have a very different standard of
evidence. For years, the only proof they asked that the Shroud
of Turin was real was that it be 2000 years old. When it turned out
not to be, they decided they didn't even need that.

Believe me, to them a 4000 year old boat , or even a 4000 year
old piece of wood that might have been part of a boat,
is Noah's Ark - period.

-jc

I think it's even worse than that.

If they're in this religious mode, they convince themselves
first of all that the bit of wood that they're holding is part of
the ark, and then they go out and try to convince others.

The religious life of the Middle Ages were dominated by
"relics," and my belief is that whoever found these had the same state
of mind as the Noah's Ark searchers.

Middle ages? Catholics still go on about this crap. Many (most? all?)
Catholic churches still have a reliquary with something from a
dead guy.

-jc


Whether it was a piece of the
"True Cross," the "Veil of Turin," or whatever, the first person to be
convinced was the first finder, and then a similar hysteria took hold
of the faithful.

Incidentally, I was watching a TV programme about a Christian
miracle-worker plying his trade.

His activity was touching the foreheads of his customers and
saying something like "The Lord is with you."

Without a single exception, the customers all fell in the same
way, that is, back into the arms of a couple of bouncers.

One would expect of at least a few of them that their knees
would give way , and they'd fall to the ground.

Was this hysteria or just good Christian discipline?

Have fun,

Joe Cummings

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