Welcome to brain Stuff, a production of iHeart Radio, Hey brain Stuff, Lauren Voga Bam. Here there is a replica of Noah's Ark situated in the Kentucky Hills. It's hard to miss. The massive vessel measures five hundred and ten ft or a hundred and fifty five ms long, eighty five ft or twenty five wide, and fifty one ft or fifteen meters high. It sports three decks that span more than a hundred and twenty thousand square feet or
eleven thousand square meters. It's even believed to be the largest timber frame structure in the world, and it costs some a hundred million dollars to build. While this version of Noah's Ark is the main attraction at a Christian theme park, there are more like it around the globe, including in Hong Kong. Many believe that a real and ancient Arc is awaiting discovery under layers of sediment in rock. Others believed the remnants of Noah's Ark may have already
been found. The search for Noah's Ark has been ongoing for centuries, and so has the story of the Ark itself, with versions spanning Christianity, Islam, and Judaism and appearing in nearly every culture. According to the biblical myth, Noah received messages from God telling him to build a wooden boat that would ensure the safety of Noah's family and a famously vast assortment of animals during a massive flood that
would sweep across the planet. Seven days before the flood began, God tolled Noah to enter the ark with the members of his household and pairs of every animal. Noah obeyed, and after months afloat, so the story goes, the arc came to arrest a top of mountain. Some traditions say it's not are At, others Mount Judy, but either way, Noah's family and all the animals aboard survived the flood.
Researchers doubt that an ancient worldwide flood ever had been because it would require more than five times the amount of water in the world's oceans and atmosphere to put our entire planet underwater up to its mountaintops. However, this doesn't mean that the story isn't in some way true. Religious homes are filled with allegories. According to the Noah's Flood hypothesis of geologists William B. F. Ryan and Walter C.
Pittman of Columbia University. Water from melting ice caps may have flooded the Mediterranean Sea as the last ice Age came to a close around five thousand, six hundred b c E. As the water tore through the Bosporus Strait and reached the Black Sea, it would have flooded more than sixty thousand square miles of land. That's a hundred and fifteen thousand square kilometers, And in two thousand seven, researchers published what they said was evidence of flooding in
that same region, though other scientists disputed that research. But what about evidence of the ark itself. It's reportedly been found several times. In ninete, a docu drama called The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark aired on CBS, completely claims that the host was holding a shard of wood from the arc, which later turned out to be fake. And in ninete, Robert Ballard, the same explorer who found the Titanics underwater remains, failed to prove his hypothesis that Noah's
Ark was at the bottom of the Black Sea. There are even cia photos of the top of Mount Ararat, or at leased to the public in ninete The photos show a large dark area that looks like a wooden structure frozen in the ice. However, researchers say that an arc frozen and a glacier would probably not be at the top of a mountain, but would have been pushed
to another location with shifting ice. In two thousand nine, a crew from Noah's Ark Ministries International claimed to have found the remnants of a biblical arc a top Mount Ararat in modern day Armenia. Their claim so that the carbon dated remains dated to the same time period as Noah's Ark, were later disproven. Though, could someone have really saved all the world's animals in a single boat, Well, it's not entirely impossible, sure, but as many experts say,
it's supremely implausible. However, many of Earth's regions have a history of flooding, making it conceivable that someone could have at one time built a boat to save a lot of people and animals, and you know us humans, given time, stories have a tendency to grow, sometimes to biblical proportions. Today's episode is based on the article The Hunt for Noah's Ark is ongoing, probably futile and always Intriguing on
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