tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10940784.post112899413302977984..comments2023-10-20T09:01:17.244-04:00Comments on Mudslinger's Musings: What's Shakin' Baby?Craig Loweryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11346191066016028493noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10940784.post-1129401593464962612005-10-15T14:39:00.000-04:002005-10-15T14:39:00.000-04:00Speaking of rock drilling... (weren't we? See "Jun...Speaking of rock drilling... (weren't we? See "Junk Science" post.) Just wondering if Curtis happened to peruse the information available on page 3 of the Ooparts link. It seems the builders of the Great Pyramid were drilling rock at a rate 500 times faster than our best modern diamond rock drills. Check it out. The columns cut out of solid rock were spiral cut at a feed rate of .1 inch per revolution. Unthinkable! The info is just below the picture of the subterranean Hypogeum.Craig Loweryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11346191066016028493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10940784.post-1129226149051882252005-10-13T13:55:00.000-04:002005-10-13T13:55:00.000-04:00Better get your Ark built soon. A liitle humor the...Better get your Ark built soon. A liitle humor there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10940784.post-1129218691528924882005-10-13T11:51:00.000-04:002005-10-13T11:51:00.000-04:00Sure is WET around here... about 18 inches of rain...Sure is WET around here... about 18 inches of rain in the past week... and it isn't over yet. That's almost half of what we normally get in a year, I think.Craig Loweryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11346191066016028493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10940784.post-1129085769500674392005-10-11T22:56:00.000-04:002005-10-11T22:56:00.000-04:00It's not an impossibility. Pieces of it have been ...It's not an impossibility. Pieces of it have been brought down. Tests show the wood to be about 4500 years old. The wood is an extremely rot-resistant species, and coated with pitch. Furthermore, it has been frozen for most of that time. If a mastodon can be preserved (by petrification or whatever means), certainly white oak or even cypress can be. (The 4500 year-old tested sample was said to be petrified.)It obviously isn't "intact" as there are known to be at least three major portions at different locations (one in the Parrot Glacier and one in the Ahora Gorge) since the volcanic eruption in 1840. The upper stories are still apparently mostly intact, except for a break on one side(according to eyewitness accounts). The outline can be seen by the crevasses that form as the snow pack moves over it. The original resting place was protected from the fierce wind and waves by the orientation of the Caucasus Range. God's providence placed it there, and I think God has His reasons for preserving it.<BR/> I've wondered how much traffic I get, but I don't know how I could count unique separate individuals. Numbers aren't really important anyway... pointing even one wayward soul in the right direction would make it all worthwhile. I haven't looked around for counters, although I did see one for Windows. I can run Windows, but I definitely prefer Tiger. Any suggestions?Craig Loweryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11346191066016028493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10940784.post-1129073861397447122005-10-11T19:37:00.000-04:002005-10-11T19:37:00.000-04:00Even you had to admit to yourself that an intact A...Even you had to admit to yourself that an intact Ark after thousands of years would be an impossibility. It would seem incredible to me if there was even a trace of shards remaining. I think you helped your cause by taking down those pictures. Do you get the feeling that I'm the only one that visits your site? If a site gets no visitors is it akin to a tree falling in the forrest?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10940784.post-1129064188124453362005-10-11T16:56:00.000-04:002005-10-11T16:56:00.000-04:00- Beroso, priest, astronomer and Babylonian histor...- Beroso, priest, astronomer and Babylonian historian who in 275 B.C. wrote on the habit of pilgrims climbing Ararat to scrape away the pitch on the walls of the Ark to make amulets, describes the Ark visible on Mount Ararat. <BR/><BR/>- Flavius Josephus, Jewish historian of the first century, wrote in his book: "The story of the Jews" the same Beroso's statement.<BR/><BR/>- Epifanio of Salamina in the 4 century A.D. used the real existence of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat as a piece of evidence in defense of the Christian faith, writing: "Do you really believe that we are not able to prove our faith even though up until our times the remains of Noah's Ark are visible in the country of the Kurds?".<BR/><BR/>- Marco Polo, the famous Venetian traveller, passing near Mount Ararat in 1269 wrote in his book, "Il Milione" : "......and you should know that in that far - off land of Armenia Noah's Ark still lies there on top of a high mountain with snows so persistent that nobody is able to climb it.Craig Loweryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11346191066016028493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10940784.post-1129062707393443632005-10-11T16:31:00.000-04:002005-10-11T16:31:00.000-04:00I found two photos that were identical except that...I found two photos that were identical except that in one there was an "artist's enhancement" of what the ark would look like without the covering of ice and snow. The outline could be seen through the ice and snow, but I deleted the "questionable" one on the grounds that it might be construed as a deliberate attempt to mislead the viewer. I couldn't determine whether several others had been "doctored", so I deleted them. I should have examined them more closely before posting them. Sorry.<BR/> If you look carefully, you can see that the dimensions and orientation match the information recorded in the Bible, except for the movement that occurred in 1840. I have a great hi-rez video of the keel sticking out of the glacier. I'm not sure if it is located at the lowest elevation where the base deck rests, or higher up the mountain. Also some stills of the crevasses (parallel to the glacial movement... very unusual for crevasses) along the outline of what appears to be the ark buried in ice and snow.<BR/>So the short answer is "yes" I did think some photos were "too good to be true" & didn't want to strain my credibility any more than it already is.Craig Loweryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11346191066016028493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10940784.post-1129053877640071242005-10-11T14:04:00.000-04:002005-10-11T14:04:00.000-04:00What happened to all those great pictures of a ful...What happened to all those great pictures of a fully intact Ark sticking out of a snowbank? Did you decide they were perhaps a little too good to be true? What gives?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10940784.post-1128998991881459402005-10-10T22:49:00.000-04:002005-10-10T22:49:00.000-04:00Yeah, right. And I suppose Marco Polo used retouch...Yeah, right. And I suppose Marco Polo used retouched photographs? And what about the guy who wrote the book in 1711? You are obviously in denial. The pictures and sketches all agree with each other, and many were drawn or taken before digital technology existed. I suppose they're all fakes? Thousands of people schemed and colluded together over thousands of years and somehow (!) their testimony is consistent, although they never communicated with each other. Your tin foil hat is restricting the blood and oxygen supply to your brain.Craig Loweryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11346191066016028493noreply@blogger.com