"Noah's Ark" remains discovered in Iran

[HERESY]

I will, and this time without the sarcasm, you too.

I shall.

 

[swoop187]

They always thought the remains of Noah's Arch was on Mt Ararat.... I wanna see them prove this one.

 

[shoowilla]

In Islamic tradition, there were 78 people aboard the Ark (the 8 from Christian tradition and 70 more) which would make the story much more feasible. The part of story that seems to be the most difficult to rationalize is what the animals ate after they were released from the Ark. There would almost no eatable vegetation after a flood of 40 days ( and many versions have the flood lasing much longer) and as I pointed out earlier, it takes months for most mammals to reproduce, and in that time the carnivorous animals would have eaten most of the other animals that did not starve from lack of food.

In islam the belief is that the flood occured to Noahs people, not the whole world. Im curious though, were did you get that information?

 

[Mr. Nice Guy]

In islam the belief is that the flood occured to Noahs people, not the whole world. Im curious though, were did you get that information?

The info I got indicted that there is a division between those who believe the flood occurred only to Noah’s people and those that believe it was a world wide event. However the info I went off described the flood as a world wide event.

From: http://www.islamawareness.net/Prophets/nuh.html

The ship was constructed, and Noah sat waiting Allah's command. Allah revealed to him that when water miraculously gushed forth from the oven at Noah's house, that would be the sign of the start of the flood, and the sign for Noah to act.
The terrible day arrived when the oven at Noah's house overflowed. Noah hurried to open the ark and summon the believers. He also took with him a pair, male and female, of every type of animal, bird and insect. Seeing him taking these creatures to the ark, the people laughed loudly: "Noah must have gone out of his head! What is he going to do with the animals?"
Almighty Allah narrated: So it was till then there came Our Command and the oven gushed forth (water like fountains from the earth). We said: "Embark therein, of each kind two (male and female), and your family, except him against whom the Word has already gone forth, and those who believe." And none believed him except a few. (Ch 11:40 Quran)
Noah's wife was not a believer with him so she did not join him; neither did one of Noah's sons, who was secretly a disbeliever but had pretended faith in front of Noah. Likewise most of the people were disbeliveers and did not go on board.
The scholars hold different opinions on the number of those who were with Noah on the ship. Ibn Abbas stated that there were 80 believers while Ka ab al Ahbar held that there were 72 believers. Others claimed that there were 10 believers with Noah.
Water rose from the cracks in the earth; there was not a crack from which water did not rise. rain poured from the sky in quantities never seen before on earth. Water continued pouring from the sky rising from the cracks; hour after hour the level rose. The seas and waves invaded the land. The interior of the earth moved in a strange way, and the ocean floors lifted suddenly, flooding the dry land. The earth, for the first time was submerged

My other sources of info were:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah's_ark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuh

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/011.qmt.html#011.037

 

[I AM]

^^Maybe Noah shouldn't have had his oven on auto-clean.

People, we do all realize that the water in the clouds came from the EARTH in the first place? Do we remember a thing called.....evaporation?

You could say that the Earth will rise to 5,000 degrees and humans will live because God made it so....It's a fucking child's way to argue. Using God as an excuse for things is a cop out to NOT THINK contructively about how things happened and the reasoning behind. It's a reason to give up and not look deeper into cause and effect.

 

[shoowilla]

The info I got indicted that there is a division between those who believe the flood occurred only to Noah’s people and those that believe it was a world wide event. However the info I went off described the flood as a world wide event.

From: http://www.islamawareness.net/Prophets/nuh.html



My other sources of info were:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah's_ark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuh

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/011.qmt.html#011.037

Thanks for the links, but yeah for the ones who say that this flood was a global thing have no proof from the Quran or Sunnah from what i can see, thus making their claims invalid . And in the Quran it says:

“Indeed, We sent Nooh (Noah) to his people ..." al-A’raaf 7:59

In islam, God sent over 120,000 prophets and messengers to their own people (except mohammad (saw) he was for all of mankind). So that pretty much shows that the flood only affected Nuh's (as) people (the people who didnt believe in his message), and God knows best.

 

[n9newunsixx5150]

A Christian friend sent me this link: Ark Fever

If its already been posted, my bad.

 

[n9newunsixx5150]

So it looks like they may have found Vaivasvata Manu's ark.