Speaker 1: Welcome to brain Stuff, a production of iHeart Radio, Hey
Speaker 1: brain Stuff, Lauren Voga Bam. Here there is a replica
Speaker 1: of Noah's Ark situated in the Kentucky Hills. It's hard
Speaker 1: to miss. The massive vessel measures five hundred and ten
Speaker 1: ft or a hundred and fifty five ms long, eighty
Speaker 1: five ft or twenty five wide, and fifty one ft
Speaker 1: or fifteen meters high. It sports three decks that span
Speaker 1: more than a hundred and twenty thousand square feet or
Speaker 1: eleven thousand square meters. It's even believed to be the
Speaker 1: largest timber frame structure in the world, and it costs
Speaker 1: some a hundred million dollars to build. While this version
Speaker 1: of Noah's Ark is the main attraction at a Christian
Speaker 1: theme park, there are more like it around the globe,
Speaker 1: including in Hong Kong. Many believe that a real and
Speaker 1: ancient Arc is awaiting discovery under layers of sediment in rock.
Speaker 1: Others believed the remnants of Noah's Ark may have already
Speaker 1: been found. The search for Noah's Ark has been ongoing
Speaker 1: for centuries, and so has the story of the Ark itself,
Speaker 1: with versions spanning Christianity, Islam, and Judaism and appearing in
Speaker 1: nearly every culture. According to the biblical myth, Noah received
Speaker 1: messages from God telling him to build a wooden boat
Speaker 1: that would ensure the safety of Noah's family and a
Speaker 1: famously vast assortment of animals during a massive flood that
Speaker 1: would sweep across the planet. Seven days before the flood began,
Speaker 1: God tolled Noah to enter the ark with the members
Speaker 1: of his household and pairs of every animal. Noah obeyed,
Speaker 1: and after months afloat, so the story goes, the arc
Speaker 1: came to arrest a top of mountain. Some traditions say
Speaker 1: it's not are At, others Mount Judy, but either way,
Speaker 1: Noah's family and all the animals aboard survived the flood.
Speaker 1: Researchers doubt that an ancient worldwide flood ever had been
Speaker 1: because it would require more than five times the amount
Speaker 1: of water in the world's oceans and atmosphere to put
Speaker 1: our entire planet underwater up to its mountaintops. However, this
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that the story isn't in some way true.
Speaker 1: Religious homes are filled with allegories. According to the Noah's
Speaker 1: Flood hypothesis of geologists William B. F. Ryan and Walter C.
Speaker 1: Pittman of Columbia University. Water from melting ice caps may
Speaker 1: have flooded the Mediterranean Sea as the last ice Age
Speaker 1: came to a close around five thousand, six hundred b
Speaker 1: c E. As the water tore through the Bosporus Strait
Speaker 1: and reached the Black Sea, it would have flooded more
Speaker 1: than sixty thousand square miles of land. That's a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifteen thousand square kilometers, And in two thousand seven,
Speaker 1: researchers published what they said was evidence of flooding in
Speaker 1: that same region, though other scientists disputed that research. But
Speaker 1: what about evidence of the ark itself. It's reportedly been
Speaker 1: found several times. In ninete, a docu drama called The
Speaker 1: Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark aired on CBS, completely claims
Speaker 1: that the host was holding a shard of wood from
Speaker 1: the arc, which later turned out to be fake. And
Speaker 1: in ninete, Robert Ballard, the same explorer who found the
Speaker 1: Titanics underwater remains, failed to prove his hypothesis that Noah's
Speaker 1: Ark was at the bottom of the Black Sea. There
Speaker 1: are even cia photos of the top of Mount Ararat,
Speaker 1: or at leased to the public in ninete The photos
Speaker 1: show a large dark area that looks like a wooden
Speaker 1: structure frozen in the ice. However, researchers say that an
Speaker 1: arc frozen and a glacier would probably not be at
Speaker 1: the top of a mountain, but would have been pushed
Speaker 1: to another location with shifting ice. In two thousand nine,
Speaker 1: a crew from Noah's Ark Ministries International claimed to have
Speaker 1: found the remnants of a biblical arc a top Mount
Speaker 1: Ararat in modern day Armenia. Their claim so that the
Speaker 1: carbon dated remains dated to the same time period as
Speaker 1: Noah's Ark, were later disproven. Though, could someone have really
Speaker 1: saved all the world's animals in a single boat, Well,
Speaker 1: it's not entirely impossible, sure, but as many experts say,
Speaker 1: it's supremely implausible. However, many of Earth's regions have a
Speaker 1: history of flooding, making it conceivable that someone could have
Speaker 1: at one time built a boat to save a lot
Speaker 1: of people and animals, and you know us humans, given time,
Speaker 1: stories have a tendency to grow, sometimes to biblical proportions.
Speaker 1: Today's episode is based on the article The Hunt for
Speaker 1: Noah's Ark is ongoing, probably futile and always Intriguing on
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