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Diogenes the Cynic · 06-17-2006, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe Meert

My letter to Fox

Dear Mr. Kasich,

I was surprised (and dismayed) that a news channel that purports to be ‘fair and balanced’ would present such a sham of a news story regarding Noah’s Ark. As a professional geologist, the idea that seashells on a mountaintop indicates that the world was covered by water during a global flood 4000 years ago is silly. Plate tectonics explains these fossils as remnants of the Tethyan Ocean that closed ahead of the colliding Indian subcontintent some 50 million years ago. The ‘wood’ formations shown on your show appear to be cleaved and deformed rocks, not a boat. Had you bothered to research your guest, you would have also discovered that many Christian organizations have labeled him a fraud. His Ph.D. is from an unaccredited institute that basically sells Ph.D.’s to anyone with the money to purchase the degree. There is nothing wrong with reporting ‘fantastic news’, but you should be careful that your ‘fantastic news’ is not something derived from Weekly World News.

Sincerely

Dr. Joseph G. Meert
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611

PS: My Ph.D. is from the University of Michigan which is an accredited University.

Word. :notworthy:

My guess is that he'll never read it, though, unfortunately, or if he does, he'll dismiss you as a Satanic liberal atheist trying to deceive him. I would LOVE to see Cornuke have to share a panel with a real geologist while trying to peddle this snake oil. He'd get peeled like a grape.

Flint · 06-17-2006, 07:12 PM

Just out of curiosity, where should the ark have landed for optimal dispersion of the baramins? Or does the requirement for magical dispersion make the location not worth calculating?

I was wondering because there's this odd-looking depression in the rock not too far down the road from me...

Lunawalk · 07-11-2006, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Diogenes the Cynic

Word. :notworthy:

My guess is that he'll never read it, though, unfortunately, or if he does, he'll dismiss you as a Satanic liberal atheist trying to deceive him. I would LOVE to see Cornuke have to share a panel with a real geologist while trying to peddle this snake oil. He'd get peeled like a grape.

This is just one day story. very few take this story seriouly. Even christians think it too ggod to be true. I just saw it on aol for one day I sure an boat from 5,000 years ago would be mostly decayed. I guess some christians who supposed to live by faith yearn for physical proof of the ark. Which make people commit hoaxes. sad they would waste time and enery for an nonexist object.

555 · 07-11-2006, 09:59 AM

wrong thread

Lunawalk · 07-14-2006, 07:35 PM

just wondering if the flood waters reached the height of mountain tops, it snowing and the ark frozen in place.

lao tzu · 07-14-2006, 07:51 PM

This expedition actually dates from last year, and the current press is merely hype for Cornuke's book about the search. I asked Glenn Morton to take a look at the story over on TWeb a bit more than a week ago.

http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...53#post1553853

ninewands · 07-14-2006, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by espritch

They found the ark? Again? How many times does that make? I'm starting to lose count.

Maybe THAT's the problem ... they've been looking for Noah's Ark when they shoulda been searching for Noah's Fleet! :Cheeky:

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Flint Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Huntsville AL Posts: 2,552	Just out of curiosity, where should the ark have landed for optimal dispersion of the baramins? Or does the requirement for magical dispersion make the location not worth calculating? I was wondering because there's this odd-looking depression in the rock not too far down the road from me...

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555 Banned Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Japan Posts: 1,148	wrong thread

07-14-2006, 07:35 PM	#25
Lunawalk Regular Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Florida Posts: 356	just wondering if the flood waters reached the height of mountain tops, it snowing and the ark frozen in place.

07-14-2006, 07:51 PM	#26
lao tzu Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Everglades Posts: 1,121	This expedition actually dates from last year, and the current press is merely hype for Cornuke's book about the search. I asked Glenn Morton to take a look at the story over on TWeb a bit more than a week ago. http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...53#post1553853

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