lets quit screwing around and prove or disprove the bible: here is how, page 3

From everything I have read the following picture is the most likely candidate for Noah’s Ark. It was scanned using ground penetrating radar and rows of nails were found which coincide with the cross beams of a ship. In addition, it was found surrounded by huge anchor stones. Again though, as EdSinger mentioned Turkey, which it is located in, wants nothing to do with allowing the Christians or Jews to confirm the contents of the Bible. Though Turkey is starting to be more open with the researchers who wish to work on the site, there is still another problem. The local villagers pillage the site of things which they believe are of financial value, so many researchers are doing their work in secret to protect the find.

Also it should be mentioned that Noah’s Flood happened around 3000BC, and if you read the Pseudopigraphil texts on the flood, you’ll notice something. There are references to the flood not only being water, but water and fire. So was there anything which would have caused local devastation by water and fire, which occurred in the middle east around 3000BC?

Umm al Binni impact
Using satellite imagery, Master (2001, 2002) suggests the 3.4 km diameter dry lake may be an impact crater based on its nearly circular, slightly polygonal shape, rim shape, and contrasting shape to other lakes in the region. As to its origin, Master rules out Karst solution, salt doming, tectonic deformation, and igneous intrusion as well as possible bombing or man-made origins of the structure.
Master (2001, 2002) estimates the age of the crater to be <5,000 years, due to the deposition of sediments of the Tigris-Euphrates plain as a result of the 130-150 km seaward progadation of the Persian Gulf during that time period (Larsen & Evans 1978). A lack of writings describing this event by contemporary authors, such as Herodotus and Nearchus or later historians, suggests the impact may have taken place between 3000 and 5000 years BP (Master 2002). During this time period, the Al Amarah region was under the Persian Gulf at a depth of approximately 10 m (Larsen & Evans 1978: 237). Impact induced tsunamis would have devastated coastal Sumerian cities. This may provide an alternate origin of the 2.6 m sediment layer discovered during an excavation of the Sumerian city of Ur by Leonard Wooley in 1954. Descriptive passages in The Epic of Gilgamesh (circa 1600-1800 BCE) may describe such an impact and tsunami, suggesting a link to the Sumerian Deluge (Matthews 2001; Britt 2001):

The five cities of the Plains have also been confirmed to now exist along the southern and western rims of the dead sea. Sodom, Admah, Gomorrah, Zeboiim, and Zoar all held populations that numbered into the millions at one point in time. Even now, thousands of years after the fact, a single person would struggle to survive in the environment of that local, the curse on that area still makes it uninhabitable. The cities appear to have been destroyed by fire, and pieces of both sulfur and charcoal can be readily found at the excavation sites. The area was well known throughout history and even Josephious mentions having visited there in the “Antiquities of the Jews”. The expedition who originally found the excavation sites originally gave them different names because they were afraid to tell the world that they found Sodom and Gomorrah.

If the OP wishes to try to discredit the Bible through the use of archeological evidence then I wish him luck, because time and time again the Bible has been proven to be quite historically accurate.

[edit on 7/20/2007 by defcon5]