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    Turkish and Chinese explorers from a group called Noah's Ark Ministries International made the latest discovery claim Monday in Hong Kong, where the group is based. "It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's ark, but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it," Yeung Wing-Cheung, a filmmaker accompanying the explorers, told The Daily Mail. The team claims to have found in 2007 and 2008 seven large wooden compartments buried at 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) above sea level, near the peak of Mount Ararat

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    The story of Gilgamesh’s flood and Noah’s Ark (Genesis 6:9) can provide a lengthy compare and contrast. Although, numerous people know the story of Noah’s Ark, these people do not realize the similarity to the Gilgamesh flood. The main theme in these two stories is the biggest similarity, and is what makes them so alike. However, these stories greatly differ in the event details, which take place throughout the stories. The Epic of Gilgamesh was a story passed down as a folktale with no singular

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    “Noah’s Ark” is one of the most well known biblical events to ever occur. The story was, and is still highly influential to all of us as kids. It showed us the magnificence of our creator’s power and the amazing things that he is capable of, nonetheless over the years some of us have started to lose sight of the true power of God and have started to underestimate him. My goal is to restore forgotten thoughts of the ark's incredible story and show how the ark is in fact real. The first example

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    Noah’s Ark, A story from the Bible that has been told in many different ways. We have known this story for many years but really, it's just another way people have interpreted what happened. The main idea of Noah's Ark is on how God got tired of all sins from all sinners on Earth. God decided to get rid of all evil. He only saved Noah and his family. He asked Noah to make an Ark that can fit one male and one female of each animal. The idea was that God was going to make it rain for 40 days and 40

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    the older ones. They do so by taking stories from older ones and further developing it to mirror their own time. One story that has been repeated in several cultures is the legend of the disastrous flood. The epic of Gilgamesh and the Bibles Story Noah's Ark have this legend in them but specific details differ on several occasions. The Epic Of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia that is said to be the earliest surviving great work of literature hence, the epic was set 5000 years

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    The Biblical story of Noah’s Ark is one that most people have heard. The story of Noah starts with God commanding Noah to build an Ark. God saw the evil in the world and decided to destroy man and everything on earth with a great flood. Noah builds an Ark for his family and two of every animal on board. Once the ark is complete, God then sent a flood and everything on earth was destroyed except for Noah, his family and the animals. Noah sent out a dove to see if the water had receded and, when the

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    cleanse the earth. One man and his family were picked by God to build an ark and save a male/female of each animal. God’s intentions led to Noah’s Ark. Robert R. Cargill’s essay (2010) states “a group called Noah’s Ark Ministries International (NAMI)...claims to have discovered Noah’s Ark”. Cargill uses a multitude of evidence to disarm NAMI and their false claims,

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    a worldwide flood. One was called Noah’s Ark, and the other was called The Epic of Gilgamesh. In both, a god sent down a flood that was meant to wipe out all life, especially the human race. In both stories, A man is contacted by God and is told to build a boat for him and his family to survive the flood. The man is told to bring some of each animal onto the boat. In Noah's Ark the man is Noah, and in The Epic of Gilgamesh, the man is Utnapishtim. In Noah’s Ark, the flood lasted for 140 day and nights

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    The story of Noah’s Ark in the first part of the Bible, Genesis 6-9, is probably the best known story of the great flood, versus The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the parallels between the two is strikingly similar but still notably different. The similarities mostly stem from Christians’ interpretations of the Hebrew bible by relaying on stories from The Epic of Gilgamesh to find God’s hidden messages. The Epic of Gilgamesh has broadly the same structure and plot as Noah’s Ark, suggesting the Biblical

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    Gilgamesh Epic has caused many people to search for evidence that a great flood actually happened. It has also caused several other religions and cultures to take the same basic story, claiming it for their own. Whether in Christianity in the form of Noah's Ark, or through Mesopotamian history in the form of an immortal, the idea of a great flood has proven to be a common story throughout the

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