does that frighten you? yeah. but i m also, the promise of god that it is in his hands. i feel like the moral of the story, for me helping others will help make the world a better place, and a better place for myself will be a better place for everyone, and for my children and my children s children. and that s the kind of world that i want to live in. and that s the kind of world that noah tells us about. narrator: coming up, just minutes from now, if you re the scientist who discovered the titanic, what do you do for an enco encore? how about proving noah s flood really happened and where. see the amazing story when back to the beginning with christiane amanpour returns. tracfone, i can. order safety goggles. play music for seedlings. post science fair projects. schedule guinea pig feedings. video chemical reactions. take pics of mr. bones.
too far. back to the beginning with christi christiane amanpour continues. the landscape of the bible is brutal as breath taking. here it s easy to imagine the suffering and patience it took for a family to survive in abraham s time. and why it s here that god would demand a stark beginning that he would never begin ask for anything like it. i m standing under the rock where muslim s believe the prophet mohammad ascended to hen, and this is holy to all three religions because jews and christians believe that this is where god commanded abraham to bring his son isaac for sacrifice. today this place is marked by the familiar gold dome of the rock that dominated the old city of jerusalem. and one of the most contested sites in the world, even the
israeli archaeologist. if somebody s seeking for getting back to the roots, comes back to being in touch with god, the desert is always the place. it s always kind of shocking to me that these immense stories that more than two, three billion people actually believe in, christian, jew, muslim, there s not a rock that connects them. you re an archaeologist, doesn t that sort of trouble you? of course i would love to have much more concrete remains of abraham, but the meaning is so strong. i think that i can cope with the fact that archaeologists port here. on the path, we met a young shepherd, and as it so happened what s his name? abraham. abraham? abraham. yep. abraham, the name of the biblical patriarch remains popular with all three faiths today. we have so much in common
with the food readily accessible and all that. it s an earthly paradise. we re told that adam and eve have everything they could ever need, but in order to keep all this, they had to obey one rule. god tells adam and eve not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. and god warned them that if they disobeyed, they would die. snake comes along and says once you ve got access to the tree of wisdom, you can become like the gods. you can move up the ladder. in a very human moment, we re told, eve couldn t resist the temptation to take more. so she took a bite and she passed the apple to adam. it was the snack that changed history. the man and the woman hide because they re afraid because they know they ve done something wrong. when god says, did you eat, it s adam who points the finger
there. he is claimed to have fallen in this hole and found this piece. i asked him to show it to me. you believe that what you found indicates that the ark came to rest on this mountain? yes. so will you take me there? no. i said my mother is dying, which is a lie. and if you show it to me, my mother would live in piece. why wouldn t he show it to you? you can tell your mother in all the world there s one person whose seen the noah s ark and the story is real. even if he s got a piece of wood, and even there s a sign that said noah built me, there is still not going to be evidence that god called noah to do this. we re not going to find some lost voice of god like some lost beatles song that we can digitally remaster and put on the internet. so instead, he believes people will continue to search for the ark and anything else from the bible stories that they might be able to see or touch or feel. there is this desire to