Tuesday, September 17, 2002

Satellite Combs Mountain for Noah's Ark

Well, gosh, why not? I'm sure it didn't have anything more important to do than look for something that doesn't exist.

Hey, it's possible that there is something on the peak of "Mount Ararat". (The Bible, in fact, doesn't speak of a mountain of that name; it says the ark landed in "the mountains of Ararat", plural, Ararat being the Hebrew for "Urartu", a kingdom centered in what is now southwest Turkey. The identification of a certain peak came on in Christian times.) But if there is, it is almost certainly a church or monastery of Byzantine date, perhaps built to resemble the mythical ark. That won't stop the fruitcake brigade from claiming that the flood story has been proven.

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