Goddidit. The Bible sez so.

There. Took care of that for you.

http://www.icr.edu/

Really? Graduate school?

Or a triangle / pyramid?

Or a pentagon?

Or an octagon?

Or a dodecahedron?

Hey, why not?

Don’t be stupid, it obviously has to be a ditrigonal dodecicosidodecahedron

Via wikipedia main page – “in the news” sidebar :

IUPAC officially names the element with atomic number of 112 as copernicium in honour of Nicolaus Copernicus.

Because Copernicus too contradicted the Bible. After all, apparently it was Written that the Sun not our Earth had to stand still at that biblical battle of Joshua’s & poor ole Galileo Galilei and Giordano Bruno were rather badly treated (to say the least!) for insisting on what we now know is true. Plus Copernicus himself probably only escaped because his opus on the heliocentric theory was published as he died. Even then they insisted on a forward saying it was “just a theory.” Sound familiar?

See more :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicium

PS. I’d email this news to the BA to blog on here but I’m not sure whether he’d get it as I don’t know if my emails are going through or not. Can you hear me BA? Over? Anyone who wants to let him know & knows they can get through to him please be my guest .. so t’speak!

Or a pentagon?

Or an octagon?

Or a dodecahedron?

Hey, why not?

The name varies, depending on the source and the language. See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziusudra.

“The boat you will build, her dimensions all shall be equal: her length and breadth shall be the same.”

Other tablets, either directly of the myth of Atra-Hasis or the version of that incorporated into the Gilgamesh story, put the length at 120 cubits, whatever a cubit happened to be at that time.

Kansas has the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson. That moves it to the top of the list in my book.

BTW, loved the Brittany Spears reference, even if inadvertent.

- Jack

The most common shape for liferafts, these days, is round, for very many good reasons. A pointy “boat-shaped” boat needs to be kept pointed into the wind and waves, which would have been impossible for Noah to do, especially in the Flood, whereas a round vessel can be left to drift. A flat-sided boat, such as a barge, cross-wise to the waves, is gonna get smacked very hard, broken and rolled over. A round, flexy boat, made of reeds would be a much safer and easier craft to make, and better to be in/on.

When you are dealing with 6 inches per minute of rain, it doesn’t really matter what the boat is made out of or what shape it is, you are going to be in a lot of trouble.

*as the foot did not exist as a unit of measurement when Genesis was cribbed from the legend of Gilgamesh, the ark would have been measured out in Cubits, which are arbitrarily (by contemporay standards) about 1.5 ft in length. However, it has also been suggested that in biblical times a cubit was closer to 30 inches in length, which would have made the ark larger.
Yes, sports fans, Biblical inerrency at it’s finest!
Oh, and besides, they couldn’t have measured a circle properly, because according to the bible the ratio of the circumference of a circle to it’s diameter is 3.00.

Crikey, they must have had hairy palms back then!

Almost monkey like in fact ..

(Looks at hands, thinks of something that’s probably too rude to be said here.)

Interesting to note how the Creationist put it too :

“*If* the flood of Noah indeed wiped out the entire human race and its civilization, as the Bible teaches, then the ark constitutes the one remaining major link to the pre-flood world,” says John D Morris of the Institute for Creation “Research.”

(Emphasis – & air quotes – mine.)

If? I’m surprised Mr Morris can allow himself to say ‘if’ with the implied possibility of .. well *other* possibilities rather than absolute certainty here.

Maybe he’s starting to lose his faith? We can but hope.

I didn’t think the article was “without skepticism” personally – indeed it seemed to be taking a definite standpoint that the ark / reed raft was mythical. The tone seemed light and humorous-ish rather than overly serious to me.

The thought occurs that the tablet could well be fake as I think a lot of the Arab market sellers at the time were in the habit of “creating” rather than “discovering” many of their purported “ancient artefacts”* but then I guess the museum did authenticate it.

One final minor nit – I thought the Babylonian “noah” was named ‘Utnaptishim’ or something like that not Atram-Hasis, no?

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* There’s a good scene on this in the Aussie movie Gallipoli that springs to mind where a bunch of Aussie soldiers training in Egypt (I think) take revenge on one such “antiquities” seller after one of them is conned into buying a stack of such faked curios at inflated prices. Based on a true story? Don’t know but wouldn’t be at all surprised.

Noah’s Ark may have been round.

Yeah, but that’s not enough. I’m not paying this story any attention unless they can show it cleared its neighbourhood.

LOL! Great Pluto reference!

@ 43. Grendel Says:

“…analogous to finding an early script of Star Wars where the Death Star is a cube.” I’d assume the Borg had arrived in the Star Wars Universe.

Durn, you beat me to it. Star Wars / Trek crossover with the Borg versus the Rebel Alliance &/or Empire anybody?

Meanwhile, the USS Enterprise / Defiant / Voyager (take your pick! ) encounters a strange spherical artificial moon-like station and a black caped asthmatic Sith Lord …

PS. Am I the only person who ever wondered what Darth Vader would sound like when he sneezed?

PPS. Off topic but thought y’all may like to read that the Shuttle Endeavour has now undocked from the now 98% completed International Space Station and is heading home on Sunday night – see :

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/19/tech/main6225049.shtml?tag=latest

I’d assume the Borg had arrived in the Star Wars Universe.

“…analogous to finding an early script of Star Wars where the Death Star is a cube.”

That’s no (game) cube; that’s a playstation!

Would that make it blue? So if it is blue and round….I know, the ark was the world’s first racquetball.

Yeah, but that’s not enough. I’m not paying this story any attention unless they can show it cleared its neighbourhood.

“If a circular vessel started to spin on the water…” And just what would make it start to spin? Wind from one side? Turbulent water would not spin a round craft much, but swirling currents would take a long craft for a wild ride.

The most common shape for liferafts, these days, is round, for very many good reasons. A pointy “boat-shaped” boat needs to be kept pointed into the wind and waves, which would have been impossible for Noah to do, especially in the Flood, whereas a round vessel can be left to drift. A flat-sided boat, such as a barge, cross-wise to the waves, is gonna get smacked very hard, broken and rolled over. A round, flexy boat, made of reeds would be a much safer and easier craft to make, and better to be in/on.

A BIG, flat reed mat would ride over the waves, and in flexing, dissipate the force of the waves. That would be the best thing for comfort, hull strength, and stability.

There’s more, but I don’t care to list it all. Look at life rafts. And ask yourself just how Noah was going to keep a damned large, barge-like watercraft pointed into huge frickin’ waves rolling in from all directions during a violently turbulent flood event. He’d need a motor, a sail, oars or a sea-anchor, just to keep oriented into a storm that was coming in from only one direction. In a chaotic world-wide flood, he’d catch a wave wrong, get stove in, rolled or just plain swamped.

And who’s bailing the barge? A reed raft doen’t need bailing out, but a big barge is gonna leak like crazy, pitched or not, especially since he never let the timbers soak and swell before loading and launching.

Disco toot? — ha ha!

Okay, enough about cocaine…..

J/P=?

“disco tute” — ha!

Disco toot? — ha ha!