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yummyfur · 06-16-2006, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by maybemaybenot

i haven't read it yet, but was the name on the bow "ARK" or "NOAH's ARK". I've been waiting all my life to know this.

I'm pretty sure it's named "Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash"

yummyfur · 06-16-2006, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Alludium Fozdex

Those fiendish Iranians!

They're holding the Ark hostage!

We must invade!

yeah, instead of "they got nukes!"

it's "they got Cornukes ark!"

vsop44 · 06-16-2006, 06:23 PM

Once or twice a year we hear of expeditions , in the medias , that claim to have found the site , where Noah' s ark ran aground on or near a mountain top when the waters started to recede after the deluge ! Then nothing , these christians aren't even "apologists" for I have never heard any of them say :we did not find anything , we apologize for having misled you .

espritch · 06-16-2006, 07:34 PM

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

braces_for_impact · 06-16-2006, 08:19 PM

If they're looking to fuel the war effort they got the wrong ark, dumb asses.

We need a weapon like that shit for Iraq...

Ezkerraldean · 06-17-2006, 01:04 AM

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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.

there was a jewish one, a christian one and a muslim one

Joe Meert · 06-17-2006, 05:07 PM

No mention of the ark yet.

Cheers

Joe Meert

Joe Meert · 06-17-2006, 05:38 PM

What a load of fu-ing crap. Where to begin. People are such suckers. Show us cleaved rock and claim it's Noah's ark?? throw in the "we found seashell's" as if that were some news in the region and get a sucker to put it on tv.

Cheers

Joe Meert

Diogenes the Cynic · 06-17-2006, 05:51 PM

Cornuke was just on. His claims were toned way down from the bullshit linked in the OP. He just said he had found some stone formations containing petrified wood and that the mountain used to be underwater. These are both profoundly unremarkable and uninteresting discoveries but Kasich (who is a moron) was eating it up with a spoon.

Cornuke also blathered a lot of meaningless nonsense about how the site is where the Bible says it should be (which is a lie -- Genesis says absolutely nothing about where the ark landed) and how some guy "from WWII" told them that's where the ark was and how he's a retired police investigator and so he knows all about how to "deal in probabilities" (someone should tell him that the "probability" there was ever a global flood has been determined within a scientific certainty to be absolutely fucking zero).

Kasich was a completely credulous sucker about all of it, of course, but that's Fox News for you.

Joe Meert · 06-17-2006, 05:54 PM

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.

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06-16-2006, 06:23 PM	#13
vsop44 Veteran Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: On an icefloe off the atlantic coast of Canada Posts: 1,095	Once or twice a year we hear of expeditions , in the medias , that claim to have found the site , where Noah' s ark ran aground on or near a mountain top when the waters started to recede after the deluge ! Then nothing , these christians aren't even "apologists" for I have never heard any of them say :we did not find anything , we apologize for having misled you .

06-16-2006, 07:34 PM	#14
espritch Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Charlotte NC Posts: 2,038	They found the ark? Again? How many times does that make? I'm starting to lose count.

06-16-2006, 08:19 PM	#15
braces_for_impact Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: In a nondescript, black helicopter. Posts: 6,637	If they're looking to fuel the war effort they got the wrong ark, dumb asses. We need a weapon like that shit for Iraq...

06-17-2006, 05:07 PM	#17
Joe Meert Veteran Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Gainesville Posts: 1,224	No mention of the ark yet. Cheers Joe Meert

06-17-2006, 05:38 PM	#18
Joe Meert Veteran Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Gainesville Posts: 1,224	What a load of fu-ing crap. Where to begin. People are such suckers. Show us cleaved rock and claim it's Noah's ark?? throw in the "we found seashell's" as if that were some news in the region and get a sucker to put it on tv. Cheers Joe Meert

06-17-2006, 05:51 PM	#19
Diogenes the Cynic Moderator - Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota Posts: 4,639	Cornuke was just on. His claims were toned way down from the bullshit linked in the OP. He just said he had found some stone formations containing petrified wood and that the mountain used to be underwater. These are both profoundly unremarkable and uninteresting discoveries but Kasich (who is a moron) was eating it up with a spoon. Cornuke also blathered a lot of meaningless nonsense about how the site is where the Bible says it should be (which is a lie -- Genesis says absolutely nothing about where the ark landed) and how some guy "from WWII" told them that's where the ark was and how he's a retired police investigator and so he knows all about how to "deal in probabilities" (someone should tell him that the "probability" there was ever a global flood has been determined within a scientific certainty to be absolutely fucking zero). Kasich was a completely credulous sucker about all of it, of course, but that's Fox News for you.

06-17-2006, 05:54 PM	#20
Joe Meert Veteran Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Gainesville Posts: 1,224	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.

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