Yes. Reports are coming back positive that it has been located. GPR, ERT, LiDAR, core drilling, dirt samples, ark dimensions have all been used scientifically to identify the ark. The anomaly at the Durupinar site has been determined not to be a natural formation.
3 levels have been discovered as well as right angels and a center hallway.
More info here.
Mountains such as Mt Ararat were not present at the beginning of the flood. Around the time of the end of the flood the continents shifted, slid, moved and formed the mountains of the world. Geologist can look at features such as recumbent folds in the rock strata and have determined that the folds formed rapidly while the sediment was still somewhat plastic.
Psalms 104 describes this...
5He set the earth on its foundations,
so that it should never be moved.
6You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
7At your rebuke they fled;
at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.
8The mountains rose, the valleys sank down
to the place that you appointed for them.
9You set a boundary that they may not pass,
so that they might not again cover the earth.
Perhaps, but you brought it up so here is an answer...
1. Fish can gradually become accustomed to a wide range of ambient salinities.
2. Some fish are an Euryhaline organism. They can live in both saltwater
(SW) and freshwater (FW). For example, the Cichlid fish Tilapia grahami is
found in SW but can maintain itself in FW.
Note: FW has 0 ppt (parts per thousand) of salinity and SW can be as high
as 35ppt of salinity. Most fish can tolerate a large range of this
salinity.
3. As the temperature of water increases a brackish water fish can live in
levels of almost no salinity. This could have occurred near a volcano.
4. Different individuals within the same species can have different salt
tolerances. This would have allowed the fish with the correct tolerance
to survive.
5. Antediluvian fish could have been more tolerant of saltwater that the
fishes of today. Micro evolutionary in salt tolerances could have changed
in the few thousand years since the flood.
6. Antediluvian seas were probably less saltier than todays seas.
A. Today = 35ppt of salt.
B. Prior to the flood the seas were about 20ppt of salt. The waters on
earth were 50% fresh and 50% salt. Unlike today where only a very small
fraction is fresh water.
During the flood if a complete mixture occurred the waters would be about
10ppt of salt. In reality you probably had a range of appr. 5-15 ppt of
salt.
7. The layers of FW to SW would have stratified in certain areas of the
globe. The fish could move up or down to adjust itself to the salt level.
8. During the flood sheltered cracks could have formed separating the
hi-saline water from the less saltier walter. This could have provided
protection for the fish and its fauna.
9. Only two of millions/billions?, a male and female of the same class
needed to survive the flood in order to repopulate the waters.
As you see all or some of the above if applied could have kept the classes
of fish alive during the Flood of Noah.
Yes it was. That was the purpose.
I would think they still had some food left over from the storage bins on the ark to carry them through for a while.
I would think the chickens and such were laying eggs...cows, goats gave milk and so on. So, no, I don't think they would have starved to death. Perhaps you could develop your narrative more to show your statement would be true.
Is there anything else you would like to address about Noahs flood or the ark?
