Noah's Ark and the Ararat Adventure/Noah's Ark and the Lost World Part 2

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On Page 14, Morris tried to answer the question, “How could all the animals fit inside the ark?” The real answer is they can't! There is no way can 90 million + animals fit inside that 450x75x45 warehouse ark. Even if there is younger animals taken of board, there's no way can the animals fit into the warehouse ark. Morris, just like all YECs, invoked the hibernation myth and the vegetarian myth to help explain how can animals survive in the ark; claiming Noah and his family did not have to feed them very much because all of the animals will be sleeping during the voyage and yet it fails miserably to explain how can the animals survive the flood without depositing feces on the ground floor and spread sickness and diseases all over the ark with all sorts of bugs, parasites, germs, and viruses that Noah apparently took up into the ark too. Only a few animals hibernate and most of them that do is small. Hibernation is highly hazardous. Some animals don't survive hibernation because their body temperature would be so low, that they won't wake up even when the weather gets warm in the spring time. Not to mentioned unsafe areas from snowmobiles and natural predators along with the failure to get enough food to build up fat in their bodies to last them the whole season is also the reasons why some animals don't survive hibernation. How can large animals hibernate when their need for food, water, stimulation, exercise, and lots of space is so enormous and great? More than 8 people is needed to take care of all of those 50,000 animals such as feeding them, cleaning them, giving them exercise, play, and stimulation. Even with sheep size animals overcrowding the ark there has got to be more than just 8 people to care for all of them and meet all of their needs, especially meeting the needs of animals that have a special diet on hand like meat only for the carnivores, eucalyptus leaves only for the koalas, and bamboo only for the panda or else none of them will ever survive the voyage of the ark, even on a diet of corn and hay.

Now we get to the great dinosaur myth, found on page 15, I've addressed so many times in all of my essays including the myth about dinosaurs living with man (Despite absent of dinosaurs and humans remains found mixed togerther.), being all vegetarians (With all of what it takes to be a meat-eater gets wasted away to the point where one must wonder why give them these thing if they were meant to eat plants.), perishing in the flood in most cases while the rest is killed off in post flood extremes (If God wants them saved and yet they die off afterwards, then what's the point of being salvaged anyway?), being dragons (While they are not due to not having snake like bodies, fiery breath, bat-wings, a strong lust for gold , etc.), and living in modern times in remote places in Africa (despite lack of remians found in post-Mesozoic strata.). Continuing from 15, on pages 16 and 17 there is the old Behemoth and Leviathan being dinosaurs myth (They don't have chewing teeth, and genitals outside their bodies and the "tail like a ceder" passage refers to its movements, not its size.) and the concept of Noah taking young dinosaurs on board which it is impossible knowing how dinosaur can grow up very fast even within a year and never surviving even after the flood without their parents teaching them the know hows of doing it. Besides, Noah has to take into the ark, animals that are full grown and sexually mature to reproduce after the flood, not those inexperienced babies, juveniles, and “teenagers.” What do they think God meant to Noah when He told them to take with him two of every kind of animal, “a male and his mate” on board anyway?

Pages 18 and 19 comes the flood and the YEC myth to include meteors, volcanoes and earthquakes, which the Bible verse in Genesis 7:11 speaks ZERO of. Only torrential rains and tsunamis (Like the after-Christmas Tsunami of 2004 in Southern Asia.), but not volcanoes, meteors, or earthquakes. The YECs, obviously knowing of how meteorites collisions, volcano eruptions, earthquakes, and other natural disasters can be very destructive to earth, animals, and people alongside of the flood, took all those natural disasters together and crammed them into their twisted views of Genesis 7:11 and tells it like it is. Believe it or not, even the Bible itself refutes the YECs' version of Noah's Global Flood. To see what I mean, click here.

Pages 20 and 21 tells of the myth about the high mountains and the rock layers all being formed from mud during the Flood, which there is no evidence for as well as the myth about the Grand Canyon being formed by the receding flood waters of the Great Flood, which there is no evidence of it being found at all. To discuss the myth and refutations of the myth, visit these pages.

Then, Morris claims that God have caused deep oceans to form along side of continents, which is false. This claim is made up out of ignorance of the existence of plate tectonics which causes the continents to form gradually within an inch per year. This PDF file here will tell you all about Plate tectonics and how they functioned to shape up the continents into what they are today. http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.pdf

Pages 22 and 23 addresses the post flood myth where there were coal forming from forests buried in the flood waters (Which never was the case.), insect eggs hatching and plants sprouting from floating logs (Actually they would have all died.) as well as plants and trees reappearing from soil (That was supposed to be washed away in the flood.) and some other groundless post flood myths. Then, Morris invokes the story of the Tower of Babel that is actually based on a Babylonian myth to explain how did civilization began, while ignorant of the fact that many powerful civilized nations have already started. Some examples include China with it's history of Chinese civilization dating back to around 10,000 BC/BCE. Egyptian history dates back between 5,000 to 6,000 years ago (at the supposed time of the creation and the pre-flood era!). Even Sumeria have a history dated back around 5000 BC/BCE as well. Then he began to show the flood myths claiming people at first told the story of Noah's ark, but then have distorted it over the years, not knowing or have refused to know that these stories featured in the book are actually based on local flooding events that has nothing to do with Noah's Flood as well as the spreading of the story of Noah's Ark by Missionaries traveling in foreign countries. References

I'm going to make this brief. These few chapters of pages 25 - 49 is all about alleged claims of Noah's warehouse ark sightings made up by many individuals as well as Morris' own claim about his own journey up Mt. Ararat and his so called expedition to find the ark, where he says at one time, during the trip, he was struck by lightening, yet he survived so he is able to continue with his journey up the mountain. He says, however, that he never have found the ark and has had much difficulty trying to get permission from the government to go even up on an airplane and fly over the mountain to see it. I would like to think that this story, just like all other alleged stories of Noah's warehouse ark, is to be highly discredited. Much of the drawings in the book are all likely made up, the photos are fuzzy and distorted, the relics are all made up and in some cases have been brought to a certain site only to be “discovered” awhile later, and boat/warehouse-like shapes have all been made up through some sort of trick photography, misidentifcations of natural formations, or made up on a PC image editing program on a computer. Some stories make claims of sightings tells of the ark being found in different locations. Also, some stories have people visiting the ark with ease while in other stories, the people had a very difficult time finding it; facing hardships along the way. Some have stories of those who had friends who lost their lives finding the ark. Others have stories of people getting captured by the Turkish government and later executed. And so much more. All of these stories have been ruled as discredited and fictitious. Some people even admitted to make up their stories of Noah's warehouse ark sightings because they been all paid to do it. On the Index Guide To Creationist's Claims site, there is a list of claims of those who claimed to have found the ark, but all of those claims have all been discredited and ruled as fictitious. You can see them all right here.

http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html#CH500

There is even a hoax that is made up by George Jammal who made up a story about his discovery of the ark and shows a piece of the ark that is actually a piece of wood taken off an old worn railroad track. You can read about this hoax down below.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/ark-hoax/jammal.html

Now here is an interesting list of claims made up by Morris about some archaeological “discoveries”(actually they are all tourists attractions in Turkey.) found on pages 50 – 55. One of them he claims dated back to the time of Noah's ark. One of them is an underground network of cave dwellings known as the Cavetowns and Gorges of Cappadocia, Turkey. Morris claims he doesn't know how old the caves were. He's lying. He should know. He has been there (and lies to the reader about it.), I presume, to visit the caves of Cappadocia so he should know that the caves were first built around 1200 BC/BCE. Morris claims the caves were carved by Christians to hide from their Turkish persecutors. Actually the caves were carved by many different types of people including the Hittites, who used them as temporary shelters as well as hiding places from their enemies. Yes, Christians did used the caves to hide from their enemies but from 2nd century Roman persecutors as well as from Arab invaders that invaded the area many years later. To know more about the caves and gorges of Cappadocia, click the link below.

http://www.great-adventures.com/destinations/turkey/cappadocia.html

Ishak Pasha (misspelled as Isak Pasha in the book) is the most beautiful palace in all of Turkey. But what does the owner, who was a Kurdish Warlord named Ishak Pasa II, have any to do with a Christian God? His religion was Islam. The Palace was built in 1685 and in 1784. It took 99 years to build the palace and has 366 rooms inside including a harem. This article below tells us about this special palace.

http://www.discoverturkey.com/english/bakanlik/b-a-agri.html

Near by is a hand-carve cave that Morris thinks it's a ancient tomb. But he wasn't sure (Actually he's lying about it.) and wishes someone else would find out about it. Guess what, Morris? Someone has already found it out about it and it's not dated back to the time of Noah. It's an ancient rock carved tomb of the Urartian King dated back to 9th century BC or BCE. He also shows in his book a sketch version of a relief of the Urartian King also dating to that time. He says he doesn't know what tomb and relief it is. Liar! He should know what it is, since he saw the tomb and the bas-relief while visiting Turkey. He should've asked around about it, but he never bothered to do so. If he did, then he will know that the tomb does not have anything to do with Noah or the ark, but with a Urartian King of 9th century BC/BCE.

Now we get to the Black castle claim Morris thinks it is a altar Noah built to offer up sacrifice to the Lord. It is not. The so-called alter is actually a charred citadel tower that is part of the ruins of a fortified city dating way back to the time of the Crusades known as the city of Ani. Known as the city of 1001 churches, this place once had a lot of churches in that area. It was ravaged many times by invading foreigners including Mongols and at one time was devastated by an earthquake. Today it is now a ghost town lying in ruins. Morris in the book on pages 53-55 is most likely exploring the ruins of a church located near what's left of the citadel wall. How come Morris does not know about this if he doesn't know about it at all? If he does, then he's lying about it. Morris have lied to the reader; claiming that no one has ever studied all of the artifacts and places in Turkey mentioned in the book, while in fact people have already have. Yet, Morris never even bother to tell the truth about the ruins of Ani or the tomb of an Urartian ruler. No wonder why YECism is not to be trusted 100%. To know more about this special city in ruins, click on these links.

Pages 56 - 57 tries to address the question, “What can we learn?” Simple, Nothing! Nothing worth learning from. Nothing is learned from Morris' lies and hoaxes he dredges up from his head and blurts it out without shame just like what his old man have done before. Like father, like son.

Pages 58 – 61 show Morris preaching his YEC salvation message that's not worth accepting. Once accepted only to find that they've been lied to, the receivers of the actual Bad News will either become atheists or agnostics or something else YECs does not want you to be, yet the YECs have brought this all on others themselves through their lies, ignorance, and their falsehoods. You can read more about how they are destroying the Christian faith here.

Now we get to the fictitious chronology of the great flood of Noah as well as some dedications to the family and acknowledgments on who helped to make this faulty book and the list of people who illustrated the book all found on pages 62 and 63.

And finally on page 64 Morris gives out some key locations of his alleged expedition on the Northern area of the mount and makes a claim of Turkish friend of his who claims he saw an unusual barn shaped object in a photo down in the lower right hand corner of the page. Wanna bet that this object is nothing more than a rock formation instead of the alleged ark? The adventure --no, the hoax continues.....anything to prove a myth to be fact. Face it, there is no way can the warehouse ark be found by explorers no matter what. Due to the climatic conditions of Ararat mountain range, the ark, warehouse or not, simply have rotted away into history without a trace. The reason there are many alleged warehouse ark sightings in the area is because of people who wanted to keep that Noah's warehouse ark legend alive in one form of another by bringing up made up stories and hoaxes like these found in the book.

Conclusion

YECs, despite having been proven time and time again to be false, will still insist their own story of Noah's ark to be true. They even went all the way of writing, illustrating, and publishing another book called The True Story of Noah's Ark: It's not just for Kids Anymore by Tom Dooley. This so-called nicely illustrated book (Food for Thought: High quality, stunning, breath taking, nicely done illustrations don't make YEC books biblically accurate, truthful, and family friendly.) contains the story of Noah and what life, with advanced people that supposedly weren't primitive caveman, things of modern invention, animals both prehistoric and modern, and advanced cites and civilizations way ahead of their time, was like in a world that doesn't exist. Yet it is claimed by YECs to be all true and biblically based. If there is evidence found for all of this as told in the book and others like it, then we will acknowledge the story to be true, biblically accurate and authentic, but it is not. No evidence of a pre-flood world with all of its advanced cites (like Atlantis), cultures, peoples, things that are actually of modern invention, prehistoric and modern animals existing all together at the same time and the same place being all buried in mud in many layers all over the earth has ever been found, nor will it ever be found. This is not at all the so-called true story of Noah's ark, but a story of pure 100% sci-fi fantasy based on "The Letter of the Law" (YECs' own version of Genesis 1-11) and certain alleged artifacts long ruled to be frauds (i.e. Ica tones, alleged Egyptian airplanes, etc.); all combine together and made up entirely by YECs themselves.

Morris have contribute to the young earth myth by rigging up warehouse expeditions stories of many people who allegedly found the warehouse ark. None of them has been proven in which among them includes the infamous Ark Jammal hoax

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