Noah's Ark

Bible scientists have released information stating they have found the relics of what appears to be a large boat on top of a mountain in Iran. While there is not a lot of other information at this time, it is safe to say this discovery will open up debate on both sides of the religious world. Christian scientists want to try and identify the type of wood this air craft size heap of mystery is made of, and if successful, say they can prove the Noah story true, and thus prove God's existence. Here is the story.

Personally, I doubt this thing is a boat. Its just not reasonable. There is no evidence of a major flood ever happening and stories such as Noah taking God's advice to save all His creatures placed upon the earth are seen in many civilizations throughout the globe. Despite what Christians think, they are not original. Also, there is no way two of every animal could be found and loaded into an ark. Okay, maybe there was a few camels, monkeys, cobras, and birds but didn't they live in a desert? Where did all the other animals come from? How could you store enough food and fresh water to nourish all the creatures? It just sounds plain stupid.

But what if it wasn't. What if they dig into this heap of cinder and find the skeletons of koalas and American bison. I can picture one of those Christian scientists standing there, triumphantly holding the femur of a polar bear over his head, the look of "I TOLD you so" in his eyes. How could anyone argue evidence of a complete menagerie, unless you think they planted them to further there cause. It would change the way the world views religion because if one crazy sounding bible story was correct, why couldn't the rest be true too. Maybe the earth IS only 10,000 years old and God made it all and put every species of animal on the earth just as we see them today.

We listen to scientists, but who really understands all that stuff they throw at us? Maybe they are making it all up, giving fancy sounding names to a series of fake tests to make the rest of us seem dumb. I'm guilty of it too, but so many people allow science to spoon feed us information without questioning any validity. We read some article about science and just accept it as truth because to be honest, an answer we don't understand is still better than an answer we don't have. I say this because it is the same sin those who follow religion fall victim to. They have questions about life, deep questions, questions they probably struggled with for years only to realize they themselves could find no answers. This lead to, "Hey look, that guy in the robe sitting in the fancy looking church, he has a following of happy people signing joyous songs, maybe he has the answers to my questions." Doesn't that sound the same as "Hey look, that guy with the lab jacket on, sitting in the expensive looking office, he has a lot of books, books with math equations that exceeds my college calc classes. He has a following of post docs who are attempting to understand what he understands. He has written multiple research papers that only five people in the world can make sense of. He must be smart. He must have the answers to my questions."

So who do you listen to? Obviously no one can know everything, therefore we must listen to others to survive and flourish. I think we just need to be more judicial when reading about science and not pretend like we know what's going on, cause we don't. I don't understand the math of string theory, nor could I do advanced Mendelian calculations. I accept certain things like gravity and light without understand them at that gut level necessary to stop asking questions, and if I do that, why shouldn't I just blindly accept a hunk of decaying wood sitting on a mountain in the Middle East. At least I really understand the terms "boats", "wood", and "mountain".