{"id":7880,"date":"2006-07-08T09:16:57","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T13:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7880.html"},"modified":"2006-07-08T09:16:57","modified_gmt":"2006-07-08T13:16:57","slug":"noahs-ark-update-its-rocks-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/noahs-ark-update-its-rocks-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah’s Ark update: It’s rocks after all"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Morbo<\/a><\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post<\/a> about nutcase fundamentalist Christians claiming to have found [tag]Noah’s Ark[\/tag] — again. Of course it’s a crock, and now the National Geographic has kindly pointed that out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You have to read to the end to get to the good stuff, but here’s the bottom line: What the latest team of “[tag]biblical archaeologists[\/tag]” found atop a mountain in Iran was a rock outcropping. Being [tag]creationists[\/tag], they were too stupid to recognize it as such.<\/p>\n

My favorite part of the article comes from a specialist in old wood who helpfully points out that wood petrifies under only rare conditions. Reads the article:<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, ancient timber specialist Martin Bridge, of England’s Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory, is doubtful that a wooden structure would have lasted long enough to petrify under ordinary conditions. “Wood will only survive for thousands of years if it is buried in very wet conditions or remains in an extremely arid environment,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, the website of Worldview Weekend, the religious right group that started all of this nonsense, this week carries the first installment<\/a> of a fascinating two-part expose on the biblical explanation for UFOs. Don’t miss it.<\/p>\n

Next up: Is bigfoot really a descendant of Esau? Remember, the Bible says Esau was awfully hairy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Morbo A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about nutcase fundamentalist Christians claiming to have found [tag]Noah’s Ark[\/tag] — again. Of course it’s a crock, and now the National Geographic has kindly pointed that out. You have to read to the end to get to the good stuff, but here’s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}