WEBVTT - Could We Ever Find Noah's Ark?

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to brain Stuff, a production of iHeart Radio, Hey

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<v Speaker 1>brain Stuff, Lauren Voga Bam. Here there is a replica

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<v Speaker 1>of Noah's Ark situated in the Kentucky Hills. It's hard

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<v Speaker 1>to miss. The massive vessel measures five hundred and ten

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<v Speaker 1>ft or a hundred and fifty five ms long, eighty

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<v Speaker 1>five ft or twenty five wide, and fifty one ft

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<v Speaker 1>or fifteen meters high. It sports three decks that span

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<v Speaker 1>more than a hundred and twenty thousand square feet or

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<v Speaker 1>eleven thousand square meters. It's even believed to be the

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<v Speaker 1>largest timber frame structure in the world, and it costs

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<v Speaker 1>some a hundred million dollars to build. While this version

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<v Speaker 1>of Noah's Ark is the main attraction at a Christian

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<v Speaker 1>theme park, there are more like it around the globe,

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<v Speaker 1>including in Hong Kong. Many believe that a real and

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<v Speaker 1>ancient Arc is awaiting discovery under layers of sediment in rock.

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<v Speaker 1>Others believed the remnants of Noah's Ark may have already

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<v Speaker 1>been found. The search for Noah's Ark has been ongoing

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<v Speaker 1>for centuries, and so has the story of the Ark itself,

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<v Speaker 1>with versions spanning Christianity, Islam, and Judaism and appearing in

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<v Speaker 1>nearly every culture. According to the biblical myth, Noah received

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<v Speaker 1>messages from God telling him to build a wooden boat

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<v Speaker 1>that would ensure the safety of Noah's family and a

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<v Speaker 1>famously vast assortment of animals during a massive flood that

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<v Speaker 1>would sweep across the planet. Seven days before the flood began,

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<v Speaker 1>God tolled Noah to enter the ark with the members

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<v Speaker 1>of his household and pairs of every animal. Noah obeyed,

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<v Speaker 1>and after months afloat, so the story goes, the arc

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<v Speaker 1>came to arrest a top of mountain. Some traditions say

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<v Speaker 1>it's not are At, others Mount Judy, but either way,

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<v Speaker 1>Noah's family and all the animals aboard survived the flood.

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<v Speaker 1>Researchers doubt that an ancient worldwide flood ever had been

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<v Speaker 1>because it would require more than five times the amount

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<v Speaker 1>of water in the world's oceans and atmosphere to put

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<v Speaker 1>our entire planet underwater up to its mountaintops. However, this

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't mean that the story isn't in some way true.

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<v Speaker 1>Religious homes are filled with allegories. According to the Noah's

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<v Speaker 1>Flood hypothesis of geologists William B. F. Ryan and Walter C.

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<v Speaker 1>Pittman of Columbia University. Water from melting ice caps may

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<v Speaker 1>have flooded the Mediterranean Sea as the last ice Age

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<v Speaker 1>came to a close around five thousand, six hundred b

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<v Speaker 1>c E. As the water tore through the Bosporus Strait

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<v Speaker 1>and reached the Black Sea, it would have flooded more

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<v Speaker 1>than sixty thousand square miles of land. That's a hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and fifteen thousand square kilometers, And in two thousand seven,

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<v Speaker 1>researchers published what they said was evidence of flooding in

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<v Speaker 1>that same region, though other scientists disputed that research. But

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<v Speaker 1>what about evidence of the ark itself. It's reportedly been

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<v Speaker 1>found several times. In ninete, a docu drama called The

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<v Speaker 1>Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark aired on CBS, completely claims

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<v Speaker 1>that the host was holding a shard of wood from

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<v Speaker 1>the arc, which later turned out to be fake. And

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<v Speaker 1>in ninete, Robert Ballard, the same explorer who found the

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<v Speaker 1>Titanics underwater remains, failed to prove his hypothesis that Noah's

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<v Speaker 1>Ark was at the bottom of the Black Sea. There

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<v Speaker 1>are even cia photos of the top of Mount Ararat,

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<v Speaker 1>or at leased to the public in ninete The photos

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<v Speaker 1>show a large dark area that looks like a wooden

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<v Speaker 1>structure frozen in the ice. However, researchers say that an

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<v Speaker 1>arc frozen and a glacier would probably not be at

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<v Speaker 1>the top of a mountain, but would have been pushed

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<v Speaker 1>to another location with shifting ice. In two thousand nine,

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<v Speaker 1>a crew from Noah's Ark Ministries International claimed to have

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<v Speaker 1>found the remnants of a biblical arc a top Mount

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<v Speaker 1>Ararat in modern day Armenia. Their claim so that the

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<v Speaker 1>carbon dated remains dated to the same time period as

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<v Speaker 1>Noah's Ark, were later disproven. Though, could someone have really

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<v Speaker 1>saved all the world's animals in a single boat, Well,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not entirely impossible, sure, but as many experts say,

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<v Speaker 1>it's supremely implausible. However, many of Earth's regions have a

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<v Speaker 1>history of flooding, making it conceivable that someone could have

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<v Speaker 1>at one time built a boat to save a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of people and animals, and you know us humans, given time,

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<v Speaker 1>stories have a tendency to grow, sometimes to biblical proportions.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's episode is based on the article The Hunt for

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<v Speaker 1>Noah's Ark is ongoing, probably futile and always Intriguing on

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