Noah’s Ark on the moon?
A lunar ark, similar in principle to Noah’s Ark, has been proposed by a research team from the University of Arizona. The project leader, Jekan Thanga, has proposed to store the cryogenically frozen spores, seeds, and animal reproductive cells from all the 6.7 million known species on the planet today. At least 50 specimens from each species would be stored in a network of over 200 lava tubes under the moon’s surface. Thanga said that it would be a global insurance policy due to the earth’s fragile state.
Christians have no need to fear, as God promised after the Noahic Flood, “Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease” (Genesis 8:21–22).
What is striking is that this team rather obviously understands the very clear historical description and task of the Ark during the Flood. Namely that it was to house representatives of all air-breathing land animals and birds to ensure their survival (Genesis 6:20). Of course, it makes sense that such an analogy (lunar ark) points to an original (Noah’s Ark).
- Linder, C., Scientists are planning to build Noah’s Ark on the moon; popularmechanics.com, 31 Aug 2021.
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