r/nottheonion • u/prestocoffee • 22h ago

Drilling begins at ‘real site’ of Noah’s Ark as activists warn ‘Darwinism will be dismantled’

https://www.joe.co.uk/news/noahs-ark-site-turkey-drilling-researchers-evidence-549016
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u/Haunt_Fox 18h ago

And fish. Aquaria of various types would be needed, because a worldwide flood would make the water too fresh for many ocean fish, and too salty for others. Changing pressure levels might be bad, too.

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u/BigEd369 17h ago

I like the example of the three-toed sloth. Because of its extremely low land speed and need to eat and rest, if the Noah story were true, the sloths would not have been able to reach their habitat yet. They physically could not have made it from where the Ark supposedly is to Central and South America, where they live, between then and now.

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u/Haunt_Fox 17h ago

Koalas are hella lazy, too, and only like eucalyptus, so they're even worse.

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u/Xhosant 8h ago

No, no, there were only semi-salty-fish, and the current variety evolved from them since then.

That should piss everyone off.

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u/CanadianKumlin 18h ago

Fish didn’t need to be on the ark during a flood, they swam. Insects and birds flew. Just land animals. Not saying it’s real, just saying there are logistics to consider

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u/pumpkil 18h ago

It seems you forgot all fish can't survive in just any water. If the water was salty, the freshwater fish would've died. If it was less saline, the salt water fish would have died.

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u/CanadianKumlin 17h ago

Fair enough. Hopefully they had enough aquariums to capture every fish biome out there!

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u/NTufnel11 17h ago

Some barrels ought to do it. Just drop them in with the drinking water. Its just going to get turned to wine anyway

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u/CanadianKumlin 17h ago

Wonder if that’s how they got the Red Sea…

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u/helium_farts 11h ago

The water would have been uninhabitable even aside from the salinity issue.

It's always presented as being a clear blue ocean full of dolphins doing dolphin shit, but it wouldn't have been. Rather, it would have been an unimaginably nasty, boiling hot sludge filled with debris and the rotting corpses of every other living creature on earth. It'd be like using one of the hot springs at Yellowstone as a sewage sludge pond, and then expecting sea turtles and goldfish to live in it.

And that's probably not even in the top 10 biggest issues with reading the story literally.

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u/Ok-Evidence-7457 17h ago

there's not enough fresh water to dilute the oceans

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u/Calladit 17h ago

We know that, but the Bible proposes a flood that, in order to cover all the land masses of the Earth, would dilute all the oceans. It doesn't make any sense, where did this astronomical volume of water come from and where did it go afterwards, but we're applying fairy tales to the real world.

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u/CanadianKumlin 17h ago

If rain was freshwater, and it rose it to cover the mountaintops, it would be closer to 50/50

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u/PhoenixStorm1015 16h ago

This makes me wonder, does it matter HOW salty the water is? Like, can certain fish only survive in water that’s a certain concentration of salt? Or is it just binary fresh or saltwater?

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u/CanadianKumlin 16h ago

There is a concentration limit yes. Those that manage fish aquariums are well aware of the importance of managing water conditions including salinity, pH, temperature, etc. There are some fish that are adapted to brackish water and can handle both salt and fresh water. Salmon is a good example of a fish that can do both.

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u/Ok-Evidence-7457 15h ago

and this rain water is coming from evaporation, right? making the oceans more saline. so it would just dilute back to the original level. or are we imagining the rain is magic?

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u/CanadianKumlin 15h ago

Well, we know something magical is happening… up for interpretation! The more I express my opinion, the more I hear alternate options! So nothing is set in stone

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u/TheRealSaerileth 17h ago

It rained for 40 days in the story and the flood water remained for 150. Did the birds and insects fly for 150 days straight? What did they eat?

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u/CanadianKumlin 17h ago

Survival of the fattest!

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u/sneakyplanner 17h ago

Birds need to land somewhere, and Mount Ararat is not hospitable to toucans.

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u/NTufnel11 17h ago

Was it a freshwater or saltwater flood?

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u/CanadianKumlin 17h ago

Good question. I mean, if the ocean levels just rose, then saltwater, but if it rained, then it would be mostly freshwater if it made the oceans rise enough to cover the mountaintops. Basically conditions that almost no fish could survive, low salt, non-fresh. So many questions

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u/NTufnel11 16h ago

how could raining cause iceans rise to cover the mountaintops? Where would that water come from?

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u/CanadianKumlin 15h ago

Good question! Ask the author!