but still, people knew little of the world back then... i mean up until just a few hundred years ago people thought the world was flat...
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but still, people knew little of the world back then... i mean up until just a few hundred years ago people thought the world was flat...
Here's the Snopes page that debunks this hoax:
http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.htm
Origins: This legend is quite popular among Christian groups as it "proves" Hell (and therefore God) exists. Popular endings to the story have it that the scientists ran screaming from the site, or that since the discovery conversions to Christianity are occurring at an unprecedented rate.Quote:
Geologists working somewhere in remote Siberia had drilled a hole some 14.4 kilometers deep (about 9 miles) when the drill bit suddenly began to rotate wildly. A Mr. Azzacov (identified as the project's manager) was quoted as saying they decided that the center of the earth was hollow.
Supposedly, the geologists measured temperatures of over 2,000 degrees in the deep hole. They lowered super sensitive microphones to the bottom of the well, and to their astonishment they heard the sounds of thousands, perhaps millions, of suffering souls screaming.
If there is a Hell under Siberia, scientists have yet to discover it. What we have here is an enthralling legend that's been spun off an actual event.
In 1984, an article about an experimental well in Russia's Kola Peninsula appeared in Scientific American. The Kola well reached 12 kilometers into the ground, where scientists encountered rare rock formations, flows of gas and water, and temperatures up to 180°. (That's 180°, folks, not the 2,000° usually reported in any "Scientists Discover Hell!" screed. It was hot, but it wasn't hellishly so.)
Those who did the actual drilling of this very real well did not break through to a hollow centre, and certainly no piteous screams of the damned were heard. That part — all of it — was pure embellishment added after this real event was turned into a legend. (Yes, we know that any number of web sites offer audio clips purporting to be the screams of the damned as recorded in the Well to Hell, and all of them sound like they could be the noise from a typical bar on a busy Friday evening.)
The report on the digging of that well and the difficulties encountered during the project were collided with someone's vision of what should have been found down there. A little exaggerating about depth and temperature, some fabrication about hollow centres and screams, and all of a sudden there was this great story to throw back at those who claim there is no God.
Though it's impossible to pinpoint when the news story about a well in Russia transformed into a story about scientists breaking into Hell or who was responsible for that transformation, we do know that in 1989 the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) aired a "Scientists Discover Hell" story and placed the event as happening in the Kola Peninsula. A Norwegian schoolteacher visiting California heard that broadcast and took the story back to Norway with him. He then mailed it to a Christian magazine in Finland. In the form of a letter from a reader, it reached a Finnish missionaries newsletter. From there it returned to the United States, reaching both the TBN people and other evangelists who then claimed they had gotten it from a respected Finnish scientific journal.
In the spring of 1990, the legend as we now know it appeared in both Praise The Lord (February) and Midnight Cry (April). Debunkings of it showed up in Christianity Today (July) and Biblical Archaeology Review (November). Even so, the Weekly World News ran the story in 1992, this time setting it in Alaska and claiming thirteen oil rig workers were killed when the Devil came roaring up out of the ground.
You can't beat that for embellishment.
Barbara "just a spoonful of auger helps the 'men has sinned' go down" Mikkelson
If you ask me the real question is why in every culture thurout Time are there Dragon's and/or talking about dragons. Even in the bible it talks about dragons. All cultures English , Chinese, Mia etc. have discriptions of dragons all simular ( serpant, fly, scales, fire breath) Why?:smokin:
Actually, that's not true. People have known since the ancient Greeks that the earth was round. Eratosthenes even calculated the size of the earth with only a 2% error. As for the few people who did think the earth was flat, it was only because the evidence was hard for them to see. But I think anybody who's seen a volcano will conclude that it the lava had to come from some really hot place deep below the ground.Quote:
Originally Posted by slipknotpsycho
hahah owned. just goes to prove how gullible people really are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oneironaut
ok i guess that makes sense... i don't have a very large base of knowledge from that long ago, i just know the basic history you're forced to learn in school.. so i had thought that they thought the world was flat... never knew the greeks were smarter then that... so i guess tha'ts a logical asnwer..Quote:
Originally Posted by Oneironaut
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Originally Posted by Krogith
i answer your question with a question then.. why is it we've been able to find fossils and dinosaur bones from millions of years ago.. full skeletons.. and yet not a single shred of evidence has proved that "dragons" exsisted.
Simple. The same reason a unicorn skeleton never will be found.. they're mythical creatures.
There wings are made of a cartalige lol i don;t know just strange even some rock drawings have dragons in em. Or they could be to fradgle to fosslise:smokin: We find new stuff all the time
i'm not usually a 'what if' person, but i want to put out some insight... dragons, from what i've known are roughly the size of dinosaurs... for all anyone knows, they've just been mistaken as some type of large dinosaur, and every few years for awhile back they were finding new and new dinosaurs, that they never even knew existed before, who's to say we just haven't found them, yet?Quote:
Originally Posted by BobBong
then again, maybe for along time dragons were just a representation of satan? or something of the like, a myth to scare people into being good people... think about it, some all powerful angel-demon that can torture for ever, is just about as menancing as something 20x your size with razor sharp teeth, claws, can fly and shoot fire out of it's mouth..
Yea,new species of dinosaurs are discorved quite often.. but nothing close to a winged two legged creature that breathes fire....the whole fire breathing thing makes it painfully obvious that dragons are no more than an embellished version of the dinosaur. what puts me off believing that dragons exsisted in the sense that they are presented is the fact that no evidence can be provided to prove the claims. What about cyclopes? unicorns? trolls? lepricons? vampires? warewolves? all these things have been written about and presented as possible historical events...so why do so few people believe it?Quote:
Originally Posted by slipknotpsycho
so like slip says... " a myth to scare people "