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Of Round Arks and other bullshit
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Of Round Arks and other bullshit
http://badarchaeology.wordpress.com/2010...lood-myth/

Quote:So why on earth did the headline writer have to spoil the whole thing by giving her piece the title Relic reveals Noah’s ark was circular? It does no such thing. It tells us about the Babylonian version of the Mesopotamian myth of a universal flood sent by the gods to destroy humanity, which the exiled Jews learned during their time in Babylon. Later, it became incorporated into their own mythology as the familiar tale of Genesis VI to VIII.


Headline writers frequently piss off archaeologists.
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RE: Of Round Arks and other bullshit
Why? Probably because the headline writer knew that mentioning Noah's Ark as if it were fact would attract a lot of readers, most of them Christians who believe in such a thing.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: Of Round Arks and other bullshit
Which is after all the job of a headline writer. Archaeologists still get annoyed by a deliberate misrepresentation of their work.
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