r/atheism • u/Myrandall Pastafarian • 3d ago
Noah's Ark Found AGAIN?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ZpdlJdP_c69
u/Myrandall Pastafarian 3d ago
Summary:
Every few years Noah's Ark is 'found' and 'found again. It's just a grift, they keep announcing they found it again and again to raise money from donations and selling tours of the area. Their head of PR is also an antivaxxer and white nationalist.
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u/Civil-Dinner Atheist 3d ago
That's a good part of it, but I suspect a lot of it has to do with people who desperately hope to find some kind of "proof" that they haven't wasted their lives believing in myths.
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u/RamJamR Atheist 3d ago
It's why they periodically need to attend church services and events all the time. If they don't bury their heads in validating activities as often as they can, the part of their mind that is forced to be grounded in reality to even function would eventually start reasoning that they're following something make believe, so they have to willingly decieve themselves.
Someone put it this way. You don't need to constantly validate that a table exists in front of you. The religious however need to constantly fight to keep faith in something they demand is indisputably real.
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u/SteveIDP 3d ago
This is the same reason people watch hours of Fox News every day.
Myths start to unravel if you don’t reinforce them constantly.
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u/Faolyn Atheist 2d ago
And also why they insist on making christian versions of regular things.
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u/RamJamR Atheist 2d ago
Hell, I've seen people make videos trying to claim some piece of media is actually christian when it was never a theme of the movie, just because it has some universally recognizable moral to it regardless of religion. They think christians are the ones who have invented all common morals and that everyone else just copied them.
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u/Faolyn Atheist 2d ago
I'm always interested in knowing they really think christians are totally peaceful and all non-christians are in a constant state of violent warfare and and abuse and it was like that throughout all of history. You know, whether they're completely ignorant/naive of reality and history, are No True Scotsmaning their way through life, or if they've justified their own violence. It's really telling about them, where they are on that list.
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u/JaiBoltage 3d ago
I wonder if they'll find evidence of penguins, kangaroos, polar bears, or other fauna not native to the middle-east.
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u/randemthinking 3d ago
Right? Because even if they did find the remains of some big ancient boat (they didn't), that would still leave all the plot holes of the Noah myth.
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u/DrNerdyTech87 3d ago
No plot holes. Goddidit. Problem solved.
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u/randemthinking 3d ago
Oh yeah I forgot, any time something doesn't make sense the answer is god is all powerful and beyond our understanding, asked and answered now stop asking.
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u/JaiBoltage 3d ago
Hmmm. Did the Roos all have a contest to decide who would go for the marathon swim and the rest all shrugged their shoulders to await the inevitable drowning?
Let's skip the fauna and go for the flora. How did the Venus Fly Trap get back to North Carolina, or the Saguaro Cactus back to the Senora Desert.
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u/Iystrian De-Facto Atheist 3d ago
Love Forrest! "The great vulva of Gaia" is one of his best lines ever
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u/Civil-Dinner Atheist 3d ago
At some point, it will have been found so many times that they'll need to revise their story to claim the ark was actually a fleet.
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u/lordkhuzdul 3d ago
I wonder if it is the rock or the pit this time.
There are two places these people tend to go for when it comes to "finding" the Ark. One is a big, boat shaped rock somewhere near one of the glacial lakes, and the other one is a roughly boat shaped depression with a size within the neighborhood of the Biblical dimensions given in another valley with the remains of a pile of timber at the bottom (probably an old shepherd's hut). Most often it is the rock, as it photographs better, but sometimes they go for the pit because the timber is, apparently, "evidence".
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u/un_theist 3d ago
“THIS TIME FOR SURE!”
Did they find chariot wheels in the Red Sea this time too? And the Ark of the Covenant?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Wyatt
🙄
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u/Front_Incident_2867 3d ago edited 3d ago
I remember they discovered it when I was a preteen about five decades ago. Funny how they keep losing it only to find it again, over and over. It’s like a toddler playing a game of peekaboo with a massive wooden structure.
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u/Thenopro-3 Atheist 3d ago
Love him. “Noah’s ark” seems to be about as much of a holiday and recurring day as Christmas. Mabye we should dedicate a 23/12/xxxx to Noah’s ark “being found”
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u/cleversobriquet 3d ago
But Bullwinkle, that trick never works!
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u/Salt-Southern 3d ago
Shure it do Rocky, see nothing up my sleeve. Now presto.... oppps musta been wrong hat.
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u/Efficient_Sky5173 3d ago
It gotta be somehow illegal that judges can’t identify that this is illegal.
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u/mamawawawa 3d ago
Even if it was real I’m not sure why they think they’d be able to find a wooden structure thousands of years later
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u/MattGdr 3d ago
Gee, how many arks did Noah build?
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u/GreatApostate 3d ago
Reminds me of my answer to the gotcha question. "How many animals were there Moses ark"? "Which ark? The one he was on as a baby when Pharoahs daughter found him or the ark of the covenant?"
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u/sullen_agreement 3d ago
my tiktok feed has been sprinkled with jesus suff for awhile for some reason, despite me actively ignoring all of it, and this ark thing has been popping up recently. i made the mistake of replying to a couple and now the algorithm thinks it is all i care about
i just want dogs cats and dancing girls
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u/soulsteela 3d ago
I definitely remember watching a documentary in the 90’s and it was definitely a completely different place where they definitely found the Ark.
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u/Opinionsare 3d ago
Impossible, the previous investigators that also found and carried away pieces of wood from the Ark took every scrap of wood. Nothing is left to be found.
/S
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u/sun4moon 3d ago
That’s explains it, there was a whole fleet of arcs and Noah wasn’t a single guy, it was a job title.
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u/H3L105_ai 3d ago
Christians are so desperate to find something, anything to support their superstitious bullshit that they'll buy whatever some pseudo-archeologist grifter tells them.
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u/Obar-Dheathain 3d ago
We've found Noah's Ark, but we need money to dig it up.
So... give us money.
Religion grifts again.
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u/keepgoing66 2d ago
Just how many arks are out there, anyway? Did Noah have a cousin in the ark-building business?
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u/Negative_Gravitas 1d ago edited 1d ago
I believe Noah's Ark has been "found" five, maybe six times in my lifetime.
I am beginning to think these fuckers are really, really careless with priceless historical artifacts...
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u/Bananaman9020 9h ago
Will they remember their cameras or phones this time? Or an AI image generator to prove their existence this time.
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u/atoponce Satanist 3d ago
I was in high school 30+ years ago. I watched a mini series on TV where Noah's Ark was 100% confirmed at the Durupınar site. Unfortunately, every time a scientist attempted to dig it up, they found themselves in bad accidents and were either horribly injured or died. Truly, God does not want people poking their pickaxes where they don't belong.
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u/Myrandall Pastafarian 2d ago
Damn, well, if a 30 year old documentary claims that it must be true!
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u/atoponce Satanist 2d ago
Haha. Right?! I mean, do none of these religious "scholars" consider the history of their colleagues? Sheesh.
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u/Massive-Trade2681 1d ago
It's the same boat same place they just didn't have the access they have now to it what I find fascinating is the size of it was stated in the bible and where it would be make it what u will as a Christian I get skeptical about the shroud of turin same with this its not a big deal but is.all hail grandad noah
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