1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:06,520 Speaker 1: Welcome to brain Stuff, a production of iHeart Radio, Hey 2 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 1: brain Stuff, Lauren Voga Bam. Here there is a replica 3 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: of Noah's Ark situated in the Kentucky Hills. It's hard 4 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: to miss. The massive vessel measures five hundred and ten 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: ft or a hundred and fifty five ms long, eighty 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,960 Speaker 1: five ft or twenty five wide, and fifty one ft 7 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: or fifteen meters high. It sports three decks that span 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: more than a hundred and twenty thousand square feet or 9 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 1: eleven thousand square meters. It's even believed to be the 10 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: largest timber frame structure in the world, and it costs 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,480 Speaker 1: some a hundred million dollars to build. While this version 12 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: of Noah's Ark is the main attraction at a Christian 13 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: theme park, there are more like it around the globe, 14 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: including in Hong Kong. Many believe that a real and 15 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: ancient Arc is awaiting discovery under layers of sediment in rock. 16 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: Others believed the remnants of Noah's Ark may have already 17 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: been found. The search for Noah's Ark has been ongoing 18 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: for centuries, and so has the story of the Ark itself, 19 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: with versions spanning Christianity, Islam, and Judaism and appearing in 20 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: nearly every culture. According to the biblical myth, Noah received 21 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 1: messages from God telling him to build a wooden boat 22 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: that would ensure the safety of Noah's family and a 23 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: famously vast assortment of animals during a massive flood that 24 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: would sweep across the planet. Seven days before the flood began, 25 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: God tolled Noah to enter the ark with the members 26 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: of his household and pairs of every animal. Noah obeyed, 27 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: and after months afloat, so the story goes, the arc 28 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: came to arrest a top of mountain. Some traditions say 29 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: it's not are At, others Mount Judy, but either way, 30 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: Noah's family and all the animals aboard survived the flood. 31 00:01:56,240 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: Researchers doubt that an ancient worldwide flood ever had been 32 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: because it would require more than five times the amount 33 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: of water in the world's oceans and atmosphere to put 34 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 1: our entire planet underwater up to its mountaintops. However, this 35 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: doesn't mean that the story isn't in some way true. 36 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: Religious homes are filled with allegories. According to the Noah's 37 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: Flood hypothesis of geologists William B. F. Ryan and Walter C. 38 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: Pittman of Columbia University. Water from melting ice caps may 39 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 1: have flooded the Mediterranean Sea as the last ice Age 40 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: came to a close around five thousand, six hundred b 41 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:36,079 Speaker 1: c E. As the water tore through the Bosporus Strait 42 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: and reached the Black Sea, it would have flooded more 43 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: than sixty thousand square miles of land. That's a hundred 44 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: and fifteen thousand square kilometers, And in two thousand seven, 45 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: researchers published what they said was evidence of flooding in 46 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: that same region, though other scientists disputed that research. But 47 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: what about evidence of the ark itself. It's reportedly been 48 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: found several times. In ninete, a docu drama called The 49 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark aired on CBS, completely claims 50 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: that the host was holding a shard of wood from 51 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: the arc, which later turned out to be fake. And 52 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: in ninete, Robert Ballard, the same explorer who found the 53 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: Titanics underwater remains, failed to prove his hypothesis that Noah's 54 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: Ark was at the bottom of the Black Sea. There 55 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: are even cia photos of the top of Mount Ararat, 56 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: or at leased to the public in ninete The photos 57 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: show a large dark area that looks like a wooden 58 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: structure frozen in the ice. However, researchers say that an 59 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: arc frozen and a glacier would probably not be at 60 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: the top of a mountain, but would have been pushed 61 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: to another location with shifting ice. In two thousand nine, 62 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: a crew from Noah's Ark Ministries International claimed to have 63 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: found the remnants of a biblical arc a top Mount 64 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: Ararat in modern day Armenia. Their claim so that the 65 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: carbon dated remains dated to the same time period as 66 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: Noah's Ark, were later disproven. Though, could someone have really 67 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: saved all the world's animals in a single boat, Well, 68 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 1: it's not entirely impossible, sure, but as many experts say, 69 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: it's supremely implausible. However, many of Earth's regions have a 70 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: history of flooding, making it conceivable that someone could have 71 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: at one time built a boat to save a lot 72 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: of people and animals, and you know us humans, given time, 73 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: stories have a tendency to grow, sometimes to biblical proportions. 74 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:44,919 Speaker 1: Today's episode is based on the article The Hunt for 75 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:49,039 Speaker 1: Noah's Ark is ongoing, probably futile and always Intriguing on 76 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: how stuff Works dot Com, written by laure Lda. 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