Talk:Mountains of Ararat

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I took out the paragraph quoted below. It may be right, but it has little to do with this 'pedia entry. The entry already says the story is biblical. Whether you take the bible as historical or not is another subject.

"Fundamentalist believers of the various Abrahamic religions characteristically accept the Genesis account as historical in every detail, while other believers balance the findings of modern science and consider Genesis as a mix of historical and mythological detail which may nonetheless be inspired (the position of both the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches)."

Also, the meaning of the sentences below is not clear. I am guessing that the writer is not a native English speaker, and something has gotten lost in translation. Can anyone clarify?: "An alternative identification is with Urartu people ("Urartu" may possibly be cognate with "Ararat"). This culture was centered around Mount Van in Armenia during Biblical times ( Currently it is in Turkey). Mount Ararat has the distinction of holding this tradition in its name and among its surrounding cultures for centuries, and is also geographically within ancient Urartu, giving it the most legitimate potential claim as the Biblical Ararat." --Ssilvers 15:00, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging

These articles should NOT be merged because the "mountains of Ararat" are obviously not refering to the single Mount Ararat. In fact, it is possible (maybe even more likely) that the two are different. mikey 20:53, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree. -- Ssilvers 04:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

I disagree - the articles should be merged as this article on the Mountains (as in range) only discusses the biblical references and offers no geological and little in geographical information. Therefore it makes no difference if we are discussing he mountain singular or the range as a whole.

I removed the merge tag, since it's been there for several months with only an anonymous supporter. The content of the article, which is a discussion of a biblical topic, is largely separate, IMO from the content of the Mount Ararat article, and it appears that it deserves its own treatment rather than being buried in the other article, which is about a geographic entity. -- Ssilvers 14:05, 14 September 2006 (UTC)