Marco Polo
Marco
Polo, about whom you read in your history books, was a
famous explorer. Many pay homage to this man for his
accomplishments He said, "I saw Noah's Ark."
In
1955, there was a man by the name of Fernando Navara. a
French explorer.. He brought back a piece of wood that
was coated with a bituminous compound. He had been up at
14,000 feet on Mt. Ararat, There is no wood within 300
miles.
The
age of the beam was estimated to be between four and five
thousand years old.
According
to the Turkish government, there was a team of workers
that entered three of the Ark's compartments; they
recorded this in 1840. There was also a man by the name
of Dr. Noui; he was the Archdeacon of Jerusalem in
Babylon. He sighted the Ark in 1892. There was a Russian
pilot by the name of Vladimir Roscovitski who, just prior
to the Russian Revolution went with a military expedition
to find the Ark. He reported that plans were drawn and
complete measurements as well as photographs were taken.
These records were destroyed during the Russian
Revolution.
Some of
the Wooly Mammoths that have been found in the Arctic
still have green foliage in their mouths. These animals
were destroyed suddenly by massive water
action.
The size
of the Ark according to the scriptures was 450 feet long,
75 feet wide and 45 feet high. Now, 45 feet high is about
five stories tall. It would have taken 17,000 species of
animals to sustain all life on the earth. So, in other
words, they would have needed 35,000 plus animals (male
and female) to fit into the ark The average size of an
animal is the size of a sheep. If you took sheep and put
them in boxcars, it would take 146 railroad boxcars to
hold 35,000 sheep. The ark actually had a capacity of 522
boxcars.
Noah
and his family had almost four times the room necessary
to house all of the animals.
In 1853
H. Rassam, while excavating at Ninevah, uncovered the
palace of King Ashur-Bani-Pal. There he found a priceless
clay tablet which reads, "I, Ashur-Bani-Pal, within this
palace, learned the wisdom of Nebo, the entire art of
writing on clay tablets of every kind. I made myself
master of the various kinds of writing. I read the
beautiful clay tablets from Sumer and the Akkadian
writing, which is hard to master. I had the joy of
reading inscriptions on the stone from the time before
the flood."
Many
Ancient non-Jewish or Christian civilizations have passed
down accounts of the flood. One of the world's oldest
tribes of people, the Miao or Miautso of China, has
passed down this story from generation to
generation:
"So
it poured forty days in sheets and
torrents.
Then
fifty-five days of misting and
drizzle.
The
waters surmounted the mountains and
ranges.
An
earth with no earth upon which to take
refuge!
A
world with no foothold where one might
subsist!
he
people were baffled, impotent and
ruined,
Despairing,
horror stricken, diminished and
finished.
But
the Patriarch Nuah was righteous."
According to an article
in the January 1999 issue of Discover magazine, titled
"Forty Days and Forty Nights, More or Less," a great
flood of possibly Noahatic proportion did take place in
ancient times." A flood poured ten cubic miles of water a
day - 130 times more than flows over Niagara Falls - from
the Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea, abruptly
turning the formerly freshwater lake into a brackish
inland sea ..."The evidence has been slowly accumulating
over the past five years. In 1993, William Ryan and
Walter Pitman of Columbiana University's Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory dug up cores of sediment from the
bottom of the Black Sea. The core samples showed that the
sea's outer margins had once been dry land and that it
had been two-thirds its present size. Furthermore, over
the entire sea bottom was a thin, uniform layer of
sediment that could only have been deposited during a
flood. .."This past year even more evidence came to light
when researchers collected sediment samples from several
new, nearby sites. 'If there had been a flood, there
would have been a flood everywhere,' says Ryan, 'so we
know that we had to find the same features - the same
evidence that the Black Sea had once been smaller.' The
new samples are consistent with that story."
In a 1999 story titled
Evidence of Ancient Disaster Found, an account of
a huge pile-up of dinosaur bodies in Shell, Wyoming, was
reported. Kirby Siber, director of a dinosaur museum in
Switzerland, believes the fossils represent a remarkable
Jurassic catastrophe, such as a huge hurricane, flood or
similar natural event.
God said in
Genesis 6:12-17:
12. And God looked upon
the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had
corrupted his way upon the earth.
13. And God said unto
Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold,
I will destroy them with the earth.
14. Make thee an ark of
gopher wood; rooms thou shalt make in the ark, and shalt
pitch it within and without with pitch.
15. And this is the
fashion which thou shalt make it of: the length of the
ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it
fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty
cubits.
16. A window thou shalt
make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it
above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side
thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou
make it.
17. And, behold, I, even
I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy
all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under
heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall
die.
