Are you ******* kidding me?Follow

You act as if Christianity would be proved even if they did find Noahs Ark... Which by the way is a story from the Old Testament so it holds just as much import to Jews as well. It would be a fascinating discovery one way or the other.

If anyone can find any piece of wood not decayed after thousands of years. My God, That would be a miracle on it's own.

Petrified wood, is what I think your looking for. Unless it was in a tar pit or a marsh it would have just decayed. Or turned into a fossil fuel.

Well, not really, no! But, I have been out, and I have eaten dinner. It was more for example, than really describing any part of my real life. Maybe you prefer this. If the spoon was full and I had two needles, I would ask. "Hey god, are you in?"

.......wha?

could it have been a shubery?

Atlas Shrugged was ok.

-Gie

Ok, so I nearly pissed myself laughing.

If you find out, let the rest of us know. Also, make sure you market it properly.

Hey, if it turns out to be some weird rock formation, so be it. If it turns out to be something else, that'll just make it all the more interesting, right?

I don't have a vested interest in what it is or isn't, but my curiosity is piqued.

Totem

I've never understood how any individual wishing to remain credible could claim that their religious beliefs are, in any way, historically orthodox. I'm willing to make concessions for anyone that worships me, or other likeminded vessels of religious belief.

It's in organized religion's best interest to begin stressing the importance of the religion's message.

Attempting to validate the historical veracity of the world's prominent religions is like patching a leaky dam with strawberry jelly. You aren't even delaying the inevitable, you just think you are. At least you get the satisfaction of dismissing the rest of the rational world as non-believers who will get there comeuppance. Eventually, scientific knowledge will build up enough pressure on the dam to destroy the entire embankment. Actually, it already has... people simply continue to stubbornly paddle around on boats, randomly dumping buckets of Granny's Old Fashioned Marmelade into the water, hoping beyond all hope, that the preserves will find their way into the fissures, and that everything will right itself.

Faith would be a beautiful thing if it weren't so terrifying.

Yeah, Jesus is a myth, but for a guy that never existed, he really was a pretty smart frickin' guy with some really good ideas about how we should be treating eachother. Ain't that the important part?

For some people science is merely a logical explanation of how their god did it. I dont see anything wrong with investigating what could be a historic find. Whether or not it validates the existence of a god isa compltely different matter than whether or not it validates a story in a book. Maybe a lot of religion is nothing more than a historic account of things that simply would or could not be explained in scientific rational thought. To Wiccans they see a ghost and think of a lost soul that needs to go home whereas a Roman Catholic may think it was a demon trying to eat them. To the Atheist they say "I need to lay off the shrooms" Reality is what you make of it. If the boat exists then we at least know we have a somewhat historic accoutn of an actual event rather than just a plain and simple fairy tale.