'We've found Noah's Ark!'... claim evangelical explorers

[TriWooOx]

Quote:As believers in the literal truth of the Bible, they knew it was there.

Even so, the explorers who say they found seven large wooden compartments beneath snow and volcanic debris near the peak of Mount Ararat can be forgiven their excitement.

'It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it,' said Yeung Wing-cheung, a filmmaker working with the 15-strong team of fundamentalist Christians exploring the Turkish mountain.


This picture released by the evangelical group claims to show one of the explorers examining part of a structure which they claim might prove the existence of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat. There are no external images of the site and the Hong Kong-based group refuse to say precisely where they made their discovery until the Turkish government designate it an archaeological site


The snow-capped peak of Mt. Ararat. The discovery is said to have been made 12,000ft up the mountain which lies in eastern Turkey


They said wood taken from the site, which is more than 13,000ft above sea level, dates to 2,800BC. If it is the ark, the discovery would be the greatest in the history of archaeology and bear out one of the most famous stories in the Bible.

The team of Turks and Chinese researchers from Noah's Ark Ministries International in Hong Kong say they made the discovery on Ararat - the biblical resting place of the ark - in October.

At a press conference yesterday to announce the discovery, another team member, Panda Lee, said: 'I saw a structure built with plank-like timber.

'Each plank was about eight inches wide. I could see tenons, proof of ancient construction predating the use of metal nails.

'We walked about 100 metres to another site. I could see broken wood fragments embedded in a glacier, and some 20 metres long.'

The structure had several compartments, some with wooden beams, the team said.

The wooden walls of one compartment were smooth and curved while the video shown by the explorers revealed doors, staircases and nails.

The team said the wood appeared to be cypress although, according to the Bible, the ark was built from gopher.

The group ruled out identifying the find as a human settlement, saying none had been found so high up in that area. They are keeping the exact location secret.

Four years ago and following a decade of research, U.S. national security analyst Porcher Taylor claimed a satellite image revealed a baffling 'anomaly' on the mountain's north-west corner that he believed to be the remains of the Ark.

But Mike Pitt, a British archaeologist, said the evangelical explorers had yet to produce compelling evidence.

He added: 'If there had been a flood capable of lifting a huge ship 4km up the side of a mountain 4,800 years ago, I think there would be substantial geological evidence for this flood around the world. And there isn't.'

Nicholas Purcell, a lecturer in ancient history at Oxford University, said the claims were the 'usual nonsense'. He added: 'If floodwaters covered Eurasia 12,000ft deep in 2,800BC, how did the complex societies of Egypt and Mesopotamia, already many centuries old, keep right on regardless?'

According to Genesis, the first book in the Old Testament, Noah was told to build the ark by God, who wanted to flood the world to punish sinners.

The story was widely seen as fact until the 19th century, when scientists began to question the evidence for a worldwide flood.


This photo, also put out by the evangelical group, is said to show part of a wall inside the structure found by the explorers. One of the team said: 'It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it'


In 2006, U.S. national security analyst Porcher Taylor claimed this satellite image revealed a baffling 'anomaly' on the mountain's north-west corner that he believed to be the remains of the Ark


Wooden beams which the explorers said they found at the site. The search for the physical remains of Noah's Ark has held a fascination for Christians, Jews and Muslims for hundreds of years. But despite various claims no scientific evidence has ever been found

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnew...urkey.html

[Deathaniel]

Even if it's the Arc we will never know, and "real historical scholars do know of massive floods we can prove"

was there only 1 arc.... NO but the bible is the only familiar story of a flood and giant boat, a story many real scholars believe is lifted from an older story, as many of the old testimant stories are (jews are know to steal things and call them there own!)

In the old stories from ancient Babylon we know of floods befour and how they follow a 3600 and 7200 year rotation, now some cultures blame a serpent god!, some blame there local gods. but what is clear is some of these peoples of the time knew of the impending world destruction and planned for it. Amongst there neigh saying neighbors, and they were redeemed in that they got to write about the flooding rather then die in it!

Now what causes the flooding.... same as always something in the earths orbit, or in space changes and the world shifts, this shift makes the waters of the globe move according to inertia (basic science) and they wash the filth of MEn off the globe in wide swaths. in some area's new land is risen from the sea, and in others land is lost.

the oceans/ waters of the earth are not the only liquid affected by and effect in the earths body, our liquid core also "swishes" like a half empty scotch glass spun around, and so Teutonic plates are moved and what doesn't get washed away is shook down, and mountains are pushed higher or pulled into the water where they become islands.

so did the waves of the last flood go 4 kn high up a mountain... unknown, but it is likley it was either pushed so high by a crest wave, or the mountain shifted up higher then it's original height and moved the boat with it..., and as for a flood and is not being provable? i ask who told you that?! as core sampling in many parts of the world if drawn from deep enough we can see times when there was no sun, the world blanketed in ash, or when from core drill in multiple sites (same area) all the "direction" of the long grain go the same way indicative of if it had been pushed by water in one direction before settling...

[Easy Skanking]

I swear that I have seen this story paraded around since the mid 70's. Same picture and same place. Never any real supporting evidence other than a book of altered myths.
Guess you have to reinforce the divisions every now and then to keep control.

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(04-28-2010 09:16 PM)Easy Skanking Wrote:  I swear that I have seen this story paraded around since the mid 70's. Same picture and same place.

defo. I also remember it from fingerprints of the gods and didn't William shatner have it in his ancient aliens masterpiece?

signs and a recycled wonders.


Here's some underground top quality reggae from the 1980's UK

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I don't remember it being actually excavated before though

[Easy Skanking]

I remember them doing some excavation and taking wood samples in the early 80's as well. Then there was no follow up.

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(04-29-2010 12:36 AM)Easy Skanking Wrote:  I remember them doing some excavation and taking wood samples in the early 80's as well. Then there was no follow up.

crazy. I wonder why they keep going back to it.

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Makes me think of Formenko's shortened timelines which doesn't feel so great lol

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[Melchor]

Quote:It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it.

Well if you're going to hedge like that I'm not going to take you seriously. Is this part of Turkey's tourism industry to make one of these bogus arc finds every 10 years or so? It really does seem to happen like clockwork.