Noah's ark was a steel-plated nuclear-powered ship, the "animals" on it were actually just genetic material from the several species that were later used to repopulate the Earth with fauna, and Noah used a cellphone to talk to his son many kilometers away. Oh, and the birds that he sent out to look for dry land were actually unmanned aerial vehicles.
This is according to one Yavuz Örnek, a Turkish organic chemist who studies algae for a living, so of course he's an expert at history, Quranic studies, hydrology, ship-building, and all the rest. "I'm a scientist. I speak for science."
The bit about cellphones is derived from a passage in the Quran where one of Noah's sons (not mentioned in the Biblical account) decided to wait out the bad weather on a mountaintop, and refused to change his mind when "Noah called to his son who was apart". Oh, sure, it sounds like the son was standing on the mountain as the ark passed by, well within hailing distance, and not "many kilometers away" as Örnek would have it , but. . . cellphones!. What's not to love about that? Sure, you can question what kind of infrastructure they had several thousand years ago, and how many cellphone towers would still be working in such nasty weather, and what kind of plan did Mr. Noah have, anyway? But Mr. Örnek is a scientist, and he speaks for science!
The rest of it is pretty self-evident. Noah's ship would have had to be made of more than wood and powered by something more sophisticated than. . . well, apparently just floating around on the water, as most understand it. And the "birds" couldn't be real birds, either, to come and go on command, they'd have to be drones. And of course, there's always been the problem of how to fit so many animals on a boat of that size; so obviously, storing the animals' genetic material instead of the whole animal neatly solves the problem. I mean, if you read that other version of the story, you wouldn't believe it, either!
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Noah's ark was a steel-plated nuclear-powered ship, the "animals" on it were actually just genetic material from the several species that were later used to repopulate the Earth with fauna, and Noah used a cellphone to talk to his son many kilometers away. Oh, and the birds that he sent out to look for dry land were actually unmanned aerial vehicles.
This is according to one Yavuz Örnek, a Turkish organic chemist who studies algae for a living, so of course he's an expert at history, Quranic studies, hydrology, ship-building, and all the rest. "I'm a scientist. I speak for science."
The bit about cellphones is derived from a passage in the Quran where one of Noah's sons (not mentioned in the Biblical account) decided to wait out the bad weather on a mountaintop, and refused to change his mind when "Noah called to his son who was apart". Oh, sure, it sounds like the son was standing on the mountain as the ark passed by, well within hailing distance, and not "many kilometers away" as Örnek would have it , but. . . cellphones!. What's not to love about that? Sure, you can question what kind of infrastructure they had several thousand years ago, and how many cellphone towers would still be working in such nasty weather, and what kind of plan did Mr. Noah have, anyway? But Mr. Örnek is a scientist, and he speaks for science!
The rest of it is pretty self-evident. Noah's ship would have had to be made of more than wood and powered by something more sophisticated than. . . well, apparently just floating around on the water, as most understand it. And the "birds" couldn't be real birds, either, to come and go on command, they'd have to be drones. And of course, there's always been the problem of how to fit so many animals on a boat of that size; so obviously, storing the animals' genetic material instead of the whole animal neatly solves the problem. I mean, if you read that other version of the story, you wouldn't believe it, either!