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Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is always
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Speaker 1: is Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Uh. And since the two
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Speaker 1: All right, we haven't done that in a long time. Um, hey, Chuck,
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Speaker 1: I know I asked you, so I know the answer.
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Speaker 1: But have you seen Zeitgeist the movie? I have not.
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Speaker 1: I have heard about it before you even said anything. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's definitely out there in the Zeitgeist guest producer Maddie
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Speaker 1: it was all over that stuff when it came out. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I finally saw it. Um Like I would have these
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Speaker 1: conversations with you. Mean, she's like, you really need to seize, Like, guys,
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Speaker 1: how have you not seen? Like guests, Well, we finally
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Speaker 1: sat down and watched it, and it's it's really really good.
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Speaker 1: I mean, like the guy made it for seven grand
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Speaker 1: and um, I just did an incredible job with it.
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Speaker 1: And there's I'm not going to give it away. I
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Speaker 1: would recommend everybody seeing it. I'm sure it will like
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Speaker 1: offend a lot of people and it'll take a lot
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Speaker 1: of people off. But then there are some people out
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Speaker 1: there who will be like, wow, this is really cool.
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Speaker 1: But one of the um one of the things, one
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Speaker 1: of the first ones, first segments is talking about how
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Speaker 1: there is um like basically all of the religious figures
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Speaker 1: are cold can be dated back to or trace back
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Speaker 1: to Horse, the ancient Egyptian god. We I think we've
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Speaker 1: mentioned that before too. Well. The Zeitgeist, the movie like
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Speaker 1: really goes into detail about this um but the whole
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Speaker 1: thing kind of begs a question that's related to um
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Speaker 1: Noah's ark, which we're about to talk about, and that
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Speaker 1: how when when you have cultures all over the world
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Speaker 1: that share a similar story or have a similar um
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Speaker 1: idol or something like that, there's there's just some sort
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Speaker 1: of commonality and it's so they resemble one another so much.
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Speaker 1: Is that evidence that it something took place, or is
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Speaker 1: the evidence of cultures borrowing from one another and forming
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Speaker 1: a cultural tradition that can be traced back to a
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Speaker 1: single source. Yeah, I mean it definitely can be both
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Speaker 1: to an extent. I mean there is a disparence, the
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Speaker 1: disparity between the two. Also, I mean, you know, um
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Speaker 1: but the flood definitely falls into that because there are
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Speaker 1: stories of the flood of a global, worldwide catastrophic flood
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Speaker 1: that just changed everything all over the place and many
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Speaker 1: many religions, in many religious texts. Yes, it's usually accompanying
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Speaker 1: that flood legend is a man who built a boat
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Speaker 1: was commanded by God or warned in some traditions, and
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Speaker 1: built a boat. UM, put two of every animal you
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Speaker 1: could find on them, or two of every animal, and
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Speaker 1: uh basically sat there and waiting for the rains to come.
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Speaker 1: Steve Carrell, exactly did you see that? No? Never did you.
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Speaker 1: I saw parts of it enough to know that I
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Speaker 1: was disappointed in Steve carl I got that in from
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Speaker 1: the TV heads. Oh sure, yeah, but they that you know.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of the story, though, is that a man
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Speaker 1: named Noah is chastised by the people in his UH town,
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Speaker 1: in his area for being foolish. I know there's not
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Speaker 1: gonna be a flood. He's warning ins of this flood.
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Speaker 1: You're silly, silly man, building your crazy silly arc. Right,
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Speaker 1: And there's that's definitely part of the allegory. The moral
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Speaker 1: tale is, you know, you should be able to withstand
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Speaker 1: the ridicule of your nonbelieving heathen neighbors when God talks
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Speaker 1: to you. That's right, right. Let's talk about the other
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Speaker 1: more possibly scientific aspects of the flood, because it's so ubiquitous. UM,
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Speaker 1: A lot of people have dedicated scientific inquiry to a
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Speaker 1: big time UH. This article says outright, that a literal
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Speaker 1: flood that would submerge the Earth to its mountaintops is
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Speaker 1: not possible because that would require five times the amount
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Speaker 1: of water in the oceans and atmosphere put together. Right,
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Speaker 1: Because one of the aspects of this flood legend is
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Speaker 1: that the whole earth was flooded up to the mountaintops. Right.
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Speaker 1: And here's where we get into that whole balle yarn
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Speaker 1: of literal Bible literalists or Biblical fundamentalists. You know, maybe
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Speaker 1: the whole world at that time meant that area, you know,
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Speaker 1: the Middle East. Well, yeah, I mean, like this is
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Speaker 1: a time when there was no communication other than maybe
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Speaker 1: a bake clay tablet um and travel was fairly limited
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Speaker 1: in regional in nature. So if you have a big
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Speaker 1: enough flood by all intensive purposes, like the world is flooded,
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Speaker 1: the world as they know it, Yes, yeah, right. I
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Speaker 1: just found out the Bible literalists they don't literally believe
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Speaker 1: every word of the Bible. Is like, they still believe
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Speaker 1: in in metaphor, in horrible and allegory and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: I kind of thought that that those people believe exactly
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Speaker 1: what you see in the Bible is exactly what happened. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: what did they Why would they call themselves literalists? Well,
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Speaker 1: because they're more literal than I guess the other camp.
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Speaker 1: But it's yeah, that's a I mean, that's a entirely
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Speaker 1: different podcast altogether. Oh yeah, there's a lot of a
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Speaker 1: lot of stuff with that, and one will probably never record,
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Speaker 1: probably not um. Well, let's talk about some of the
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Speaker 1: theories behind all this. You said that it's physically impossible,
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Speaker 1: it's bio geochemically impossible for um the earth to have
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Speaker 1: flooded up to the mountaintops. That's what they say, that's
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Speaker 1: what scientists say. You said that it's probably a little
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Speaker 1: more um. It was probably a little more local or regional,
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Speaker 1: And there's actually evidence of UM flooding in the right
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Speaker 1: place at about the right time, enough to support what's
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Speaker 1: called the Noah's flood hypothesis a k a. Black Sea
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Speaker 1: deluge theory. I like them both. Yeah, they're both good.
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Speaker 1: It don't say the band name thing that Like eight
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Speaker 1: people just went like that's how did you think about
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Speaker 1: that black seas theory? Well, too long from my taste.
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Speaker 1: Uh So you're talking about William B. F Ryan, Walter C.
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Speaker 1: Pittman of Columbia in New York Times actually before they
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Speaker 1: even published it, and and like journals, the New York
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Speaker 1: Times published it. Um. They postulated a theory that the
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Speaker 1: Great Flood was resulting from rising waters in the Black Sea,
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Speaker 1: just as the last ice age was tapering off, which
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Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Um, they're basically their
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Speaker 1: Their whole idea was that the ice caps um overwhelmed
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Speaker 1: the Mediterranean, which flowed across the Bosporus Strait and into
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Speaker 1: the Black Sea, right right, yeah, um. And apparently this
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Speaker 1: would have happened at about two times the force of
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Speaker 1: Niagara falls. Those two guys reckon square miles, so they
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Speaker 1: think would have been flooded. Man. And there's actually evidence, Um.
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Speaker 1: The guy Robert Ballard who discovered the Titanic, who will
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Speaker 1: visit with later, um found evidence that there is there was. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: the Black Sea was indeed at one time a freshwater lake.
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Speaker 1: Now it is a saltwater sea in Inland Sea. And
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Speaker 1: so most likely that was the result of the Mediterranean
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Speaker 1: infiltrating it. He was that two thousand seven, was at
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Speaker 1: his work, No, no, he was. He Um searched for
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Speaker 1: evidence of Norzark in the late nineties thousand um. But
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Speaker 1: so they did find incontrovertible natural evidence, but they didn't
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Speaker 1: find evidence that there were people that would have witnessed it.
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Speaker 1: So they don't know if it happened at a time
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Speaker 1: when people noticed it, or if it was cataclysmic, if
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Speaker 1: it killed a bunch of people. Are watchure to thousand seven,
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Speaker 1: they found evidence that ice caps melting from Greenland kicked
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Speaker 1: the sea level up about four and a half feet
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Speaker 1: between over the course of about what six hundred years
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Speaker 1: or so. But there was a five year study from
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Speaker 1: UNESCO and the International Union of Geological Services in two
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Speaker 1: thousand nine that said if there was a sea rise
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Speaker 1: and a flood like that, it was probably over a
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Speaker 1: longer period of time and more mild than that. Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: six hundred years, more mild than six hundred years, they
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Speaker 1: were saying, yeah, like maybe as much as a thousand years. Right,
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Speaker 1: And here's the big problem, um, the Noah's Flood hypothesis
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Speaker 1: and all the supporting evidence doesn't There's a really important
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Speaker 1: peace left out, which is the rain. Depending on who
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Speaker 1: you talked to, it rain for six days up to
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Speaker 1: forty days and forty nights well up to a hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty days. Actually, who was that? Well, that's in
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Speaker 1: the Bible, Okay, I thought it was forty days and
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Speaker 1: forty Well it says forty days and forty nights. But
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Speaker 1: then I think, man, I wish I hadn't front of me.
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Speaker 1: So something about the waters for a hundred and fifty days.
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Speaker 1: So maybe it rained that long, and the flooding rose
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Speaker 1: up to a point of a hundred fifty days right
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Speaker 1: before it subsided. And he also took seven pairs of
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Speaker 1: clean animals. Uh yeah, and then to unclean animals a
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Speaker 1: k a. Ferrets. They're they're really unclean. They're good eating.
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Speaker 1: Though I just left at that. It's also possible improbable that, um,
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Speaker 1: this the whole flood legend, since remember, um, the world
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Speaker 1: was a lot smaller even though it's really large at
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Speaker 1: the time. Um was a larger than usual flooding of
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Speaker 1: the tigers and euphrates, which flood every year and yeah
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Speaker 1: and every summer. I think, yeah, it's it's seasonal flooding.
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Speaker 1: You know, we didn't mention Noah's flood in the How
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Speaker 1: Floods Work episode. This is the follow up, Um, but
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Speaker 1: the seasonal flooding, if there was one that was really
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Speaker 1: really really bad. Right. Um, the the these people, the
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Speaker 1: people who started to first record the idea of Noah
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Speaker 1: and this great flood were in that area at the time,
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Speaker 1: the Mesopotamia area, starting with the Sumerians, right, and some
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Speaker 1: postulate perhaps Noah was wealthy and could afford a really
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Speaker 1: great boat and the Tigris and Euphrates flooded, and that
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Speaker 1: became the story that eventually morphed into uh Islamic and
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Speaker 1: Judeo Christian versions. Right. But about two thousand years before
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Speaker 1: it was recorded in the Old testament Um, the Sumerians
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Speaker 1: wrote of a man named Zeo Sudra, right and uh
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Speaker 1: he was basically the archetype for Noah and the flood story.
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Speaker 1: And then that was followed up by the world's first book,
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Speaker 1: the world's first known book, one of my personal favorites,
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Speaker 1: the Epic of Gilgamesh by John Grisham. Right. Yeah, it
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Speaker 1: was a good one. Yeah, I can't believe that twist
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Speaker 1: at the end the attorney the lady with forty million dollars.
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Speaker 1: So you're right. That is the oldest book in recorded history.
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Speaker 1: In the Babylonians say there was a man named uh
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Speaker 1: utna Una pished him and he warned of a great flood,
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Speaker 1: built a boat about the size of an acre, and uh,
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Speaker 1: there were six days and nights of rain, and he
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Speaker 1: sailed to modern day bah Ran. Right. What what's interesting
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Speaker 1: is that the the size of the boat is found
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Speaker 1: just about the same in all of these traditions, starting
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Speaker 1: with Gilgamesh about an acre in size, up to the Bible,
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Speaker 1: which mentions that it's three cubits. And let's just go
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Speaker 1: ahead and discuss cubits for a moment. Okay, I think
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Speaker 1: it's time in the history of stuff, you should know
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Speaker 1: that we finally got the cubits. But a cubit is
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Speaker 1: an ancient measurement of length that runs from the tip
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Speaker 1: of the middle finger of the inside of the elbow.
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Speaker 1: It's usually about fourteen inches or something like um forty
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Speaker 1: five point seven two centimeters eighteen inches or forty centimeters right, um,
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Speaker 1: So three hundred cubits is fifty inches or thirteen thousand,
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Speaker 1: seven hundred sixteen centimeters, which means it's four fifty or
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Speaker 1: a hundred thirty seven ms right long. Three decks made
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Speaker 1: of gopher wood. All that equals would cover about an
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Speaker 1: acre in areas it is, But it is strange that
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Speaker 1: it does appear with about the same dimensions in all
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Speaker 1: these traditions. So it makes you wonder if there was
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Speaker 1: a wealthy merchant um in the area at that time,
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Speaker 1: did he really have an acre sized boat or was
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Speaker 1: it just like that's the opposite of an allegory for
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Speaker 1: a really big boat. It's like really specific rather than hyperbolic.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it would be high bobollic. That's a big boat
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Speaker 1: for today with today's technology. Uh So. In the Koran
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Speaker 1: and for people out there that are going what no
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Speaker 1: one's in the Koran? No in u h He's one
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Speaker 1: of the five prophets of Islam, along with Abraham, Jesus, Moses,
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Speaker 1: and Adam. Did you just say, Jesus, I did did
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Speaker 1: you know this before this article? Uh? Yeah, I took
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Speaker 1: religion in college. Okay, I had no idea Jesus is
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Speaker 1: um a venerated prophet in the Islamic tradition. I bet
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Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know that. Uh So. The
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Speaker 1: Book of Sarah or s u r a h Sarah
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Speaker 1: tells of new or noah Um speaking as a prophet
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Speaker 1: of God, warning his neighbors turned from your evil ways
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Speaker 1: and aside from the name differences and the where the
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Speaker 1: arc eventually lands, which in the Bible it's Mount Ara
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Speaker 1: Rat and the Koran it's Mount Judy or is it
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Speaker 1: Judi I took it as Judy Judy. Um, those are
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Speaker 1: really the only differences other than that they're pretty similar
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Speaker 1: to each other, right, But those locations are very specific. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's not like on a mountain somewhere. And there are
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Speaker 1: also two very different locations, both known at the time,
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Speaker 1: So I mean it's not like they were confused or
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Speaker 1: anything like that. Um. There's also another location, um that
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Speaker 1: people search to, uh Mount Suleiman in Iran. But those
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Speaker 1: are the three big mountains that are being looked at currently.
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Speaker 1: That is correct, So let's talk about, um, the search.
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Speaker 1: There's there's been uh a lot of There's been a
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Speaker 1: number of searches. I think there still are for the arc.
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Speaker 1: People want to find evidence of the arc because if
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Speaker 1: you find the arc, well then everything really happened, and
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Speaker 1: the creationists and literalists are like, hey, I told you.
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Speaker 1: And so a lot of people have kind of looked
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Speaker 1: into this, and we talked about the geo logical evidence.
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Speaker 1: There's a little more. UM, there's some evidence that the
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Speaker 1: the tigers and Euphrates river did indeed have a pretty
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Speaker 1: big flood around and that it wiped out entire cities
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Speaker 1: in Sumer. That's that's pretty good evidence that this flood
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Speaker 1: did indeed happen, right, yeah, a flood. But we're still
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Speaker 1: lacking one of the main components as far as biblical
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Speaker 1: scholars are concerned, which is the arc fingerprints. Oh right,
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Speaker 1: so yeah, let's go to aera which is particularly tantalizing
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Speaker 1: or was at one point in time. Uh the the
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Speaker 1: and I got a little impotent in this special in
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Speaker 1: the Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark. CBS aired this uh
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Speaker 1: special that they later on said was entertainment and not
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Speaker 1: documentary after the fact that had It was hosted by
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Speaker 1: what's his name, Darren McGavin from A Christmas Story. He's
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Speaker 1: awesome and yeah Billy Madison, and um, did I ever
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Speaker 1: tell you? I saw The Christmas Story at a screening
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Speaker 1: in l a and they brought him out. No the
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Speaker 1: director was there and told stories. He made porkis so
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Speaker 1: he could make a Christmas story. Oh yeah, you did
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Speaker 1: tell And they wheeled out there McGavin or in wheel
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Speaker 1: him out. He was he was in a wheelchair kind
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Speaker 1: of back into my right and everyone stood and clapped
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Speaker 1: and he was just kind of like, it was kind
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Speaker 1: of sad. He was old. He waved like the queen. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and his wife was like, this is for you, Like,
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Speaker 1: I don't think he quite got it. Oh wow, he's
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Speaker 1: that old. Huh. Yeah. He died not too long after that.
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Speaker 1: I think when did you see him? So this was
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Speaker 1: definitely post Billy Madison because he was totally sharp and
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Speaker 1: mobile and everything. This is like two thousand one ish
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Speaker 1: or two thousand somewhere in there. Well he went downhill quick. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's very sad. He was great and Cold Check too,
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Speaker 1: And what Cold Check? The night Stalker? Don't see that?
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Speaker 1: Is that a movie? That was a TV show? Really? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: It was like kind of like a outer limits kind
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Speaker 1: of thing, but it was mainly monsters. He was a
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Speaker 1: private detective who would who would like end up on
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Speaker 1: a case and there was a monster behind it or
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Speaker 1: something like that, or a ghost or something crazy like that.
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Speaker 1: It's like a supernatural detective series. Yeah, it's cool. I
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Speaker 1: can't believe I've never heard of that. It's crazy. He
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Speaker 1: had this tagline, who loves your baby? Not a finger
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Speaker 1: all right, boy, we can get distracted so easy. Um.
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Speaker 1: He hosted the show, CBS ran the show, and a
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Speaker 1: guy named George Jamal Um. Supposedly, his story was that
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Speaker 1: he and a companion named Vladimir crawled into a hole
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Speaker 1: in the ice at the top of Mount Ara Rat
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Speaker 1: into a wooden structure. Um he says. He says, quote,
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Speaker 1: we got very excited when we saw this. Part of
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Speaker 1: the room was divided into pends, like places where you
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Speaker 1: would keep animals. And so this is on TV and
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Speaker 1: people are getting like really excited about this that uh,
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Speaker 1: he took some wood with them. Then tragedy struck. Vladimir
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Speaker 1: was taking pictures and basically backed up and like fell
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Speaker 1: out and tumbled down the mountain and died, destroying the
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Speaker 1: film evidence. Wink wink. Uh. And as of course, if
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Speaker 1: you can't see where this is headed, as it later
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Speaker 1: comes out, George Jamal is an actor. He'd been telling
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Speaker 1: this story for years. He's never been to Turkey. There
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Speaker 1: is no Vladimir. The whole thing was completely made up.
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Speaker 1: And uh, it gets a little more fun. Though. They
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Speaker 1: had experts paraded about throughout the show that claimed certain
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Speaker 1: things like Biblical era people developed the batteries and uh,
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Speaker 1: with those batteries they ran air conditioners. Wait, I've heard
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Speaker 1: about batteries. They did have chemical batteries, like back in Egypt. Really, yeah,
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Speaker 1: did they run air conditioners? I don't believe that. Um.
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Speaker 1: They said that the flood occurred in subterranean chambers, bursting
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Speaker 1: up through the Earth's surface with the blosion explosive power
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Speaker 1: of ten billion hydrogen bombs. And it's important to note
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Speaker 1: that none of this is like substantiated. It was all
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Speaker 1: just like made up stuff. And then finally they found
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Speaker 1: fossils of animals buried in swimming positions, and fish found
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Speaker 1: in positions of terror, fins extended and eyes bulging, so
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Speaker 1: like these fish were so scared that they were fossilized
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Speaker 1: and uh, flash fossilized, flash fossilized with their eyes intact,
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Speaker 1: bulging at the water, because I guess a lot of
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Speaker 1: water is intimidating to a fish. I would think they
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Speaker 1: would have been like, sweet, do you think they really
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Speaker 1: need to pile on more lower? It was weird. Can
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Speaker 1: we just stick with the existing lore and try to
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Speaker 1: figure that out? So anyway, that was the big hoax,
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Speaker 1: and it was found out to be a hoax and
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Speaker 1: a big disappointment for some people. I'm sure some people.
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Speaker 1: Other people are probably like um. So I've mentioned Robert Ballard,
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Speaker 1: the guy who found the Titanic, famed explorer UM. He
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Speaker 1: led an exposition in two thousand UM and he was
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Speaker 1: looking not so much for Noah's Ark itself, although if
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Speaker 1: there's any place on Earth that would be a great
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Speaker 1: place to preserve a wooden boat for several thousand years.
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Speaker 1: The Black Sea, the bottom of it is apparently perfect,
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Speaker 1: very very cold, very low in oxygen um. And they
21:25
Speaker 1: have found some pretty ancient wood structures, but they haven't
21:29
Speaker 1: found any Neolithic structures, although I said they did find
21:33
Speaker 1: the ancient shoreline. They found seven kinds of muscles, like
21:37
Speaker 1: ancient extinct muscles. Five of them are salt water, two
21:41
Speaker 1: or freshwater. Just incontrovertible evidence that there is that that
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Speaker 1: they found this old ancient freshwater lake shoreline and at
21:49
Speaker 1: some point that's what the Black Sea was, and then
21:51
Speaker 1: it was inundated somehow so quickly. Uh, not from the
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Speaker 1: Neolithic period where it should have where this would have
21:59
Speaker 1: taken place. Yet he has found some stuff, but not
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Speaker 1: necessarily that, and that would suggest that this flood did happen,
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Speaker 1: and it did happen quickly, and there were people around
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Speaker 1: to witness it and create a story about it. But
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Speaker 1: what experts think that there is no wood that would
22:17
Speaker 1: survive that long. It's that's likely the case in ice
22:21
Speaker 1: and water and whatever. And also, I mean if it
22:25
Speaker 1: was trapped in ice, like say on the side of error, right, Um,
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Speaker 1: a glacier wouldn't have frozen it in place. It would
22:33
Speaker 1: have moved it down the mountain. That's what they say.
22:37
Speaker 1: So what about Suleiman? Uh? Well, let's talk about the
22:41
Speaker 1: air rat anomaly first, because that's pretty interesting. Okay, I'm sorry,
22:44
Speaker 1: I thought we already had, did I guess not. I
22:47
Speaker 1: think we're about whom we took a step to the left.
22:50
Speaker 1: There are photos that were taken by the c I
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Speaker 1: a UM back in the day, and I think it
22:54
Speaker 1: was I think it was actually film as well, and
22:57
Speaker 1: they've got film frames now that they've released. They were
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Speaker 1: classified and then released in the Freedom of Information Act.
23:05
Speaker 1: And if you look at pictures, there's a dark spot
23:09
Speaker 1: and it looks like a big old boat. It looks
23:11
Speaker 1: like a big old boat. And um, so they called
23:14
Speaker 1: that the error at an only but most like experts claim,
23:18
Speaker 1: like you said, that it wouldn't just be stuck frozen
23:21
Speaker 1: up there, it would have moved down from the mountain,
23:24
Speaker 1: not at feet and that's where um uh, George Jamal
23:30
Speaker 1: said he what he found it was on err Rat, yeah,
23:33
Speaker 1: which he had never been tot Um. And then Mount
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Speaker 1: Suleman that's the one in Iran and that's been a
23:40
Speaker 1: particular interest to the Bible Archaeology Search and ex Exploration Institute.
23:45
Speaker 1: Did you see this one? I have not. Does it
23:48
Speaker 1: look like it too? It looks like a I mean
23:50
Speaker 1: it's rock. Well they're saying like, yeah, it looks like
23:53
Speaker 1: it's rock, but it's actually petrified wood. But it's not
23:56
Speaker 1: the big problem is it's missing like obvious cuts and
23:59
Speaker 1: joints in evidence that it was a man made wooden
24:02
Speaker 1: structure at some point in time. Yeah. There's there's a
24:05
Speaker 1: Christian apologetics group called Answers in Genesis that you can
24:10
Speaker 1: find on the internet, and they even came out and
24:12
Speaker 1: were like, I think officially they didn't have an official comment,
24:17
Speaker 1: but they said, you know, even Christian creationist geologists say
24:22
Speaker 1: that it's a rock formation and this kind of stuff
24:25
Speaker 1: if you push it just makes us look bad. I
24:28
Speaker 1: got to, but they still said, but you never know, right.
24:33
Speaker 1: But it is in the shape of a boat. Ish,
24:36
Speaker 1: that's cool. Of roughly the same size. That's very neat.
24:41
Speaker 1: So it's still out there. Possibly. I like Ballard's approach.
24:46
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm not looking for the ark, man, I'm
24:47
Speaker 1: looking for evidence that this flood took place, and there
24:50
Speaker 1: are people around to witness it. If I find the
24:52
Speaker 1: boat awesome, If not, whatever, and everyone else can just
24:57
Speaker 1: do get out. Yeah, exactly, I find it interesting. I
25:00
Speaker 1: did too. I sit ringside. Oh yeah, that's that's a
25:03
Speaker 1: good place to be in this one. Sure, um, you
25:05
Speaker 1: got anything else? Uh no, My my nephew's name is Noah.
25:09
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25:12
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25:17
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25:21
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25:23
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25:27
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25:30
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