Noah\'s Ark found?

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

Have not tried coriander yet................ :lol:

M.VIB.M.

[ParthianBow]

To go back to the original 'serious' point of this thread, I can now refute the evangelical explorers' claims to be 99.9% certain that they have found Noah's Ark up the wrong mountain in Turkey. And the reason? It's actually on the floor of my sitting room. How do I really know that it's the genuine article? Because there are the remains of an old bearded guy, a lion and and a zebra beside it. Oh yes, and because it's got 'Noah's Ark' painted on the side :mrgreen:

[Jona Lendering]

History and Archeology have a way of providing surprises that make the "smartest guys in the room" suddenly look awfully foolish...

True, but I have little doubt that there is no ark on the so-called Ararat. The identification is medieval and based on a translation error. That settles the case. People who start looking on the Agri Dagi (its real name) have not read the sources. The only question is who looks more awfully foolish: the "explorers" or their financers.

[M. Demetrius]

The financers, imo.

If someone were willing to finance a team of folks to travel somewhere and pay me a hefty sum to climb a mountain and look around, I think I'd be glad to take their money. And I'd do as thorough a search as the money made possible. Then I'd go home and hug the wife, and take her out to the shopping mall.

[Jona Lendering]

Then I'd go home and hug the wife, and take her out to the shopping mall.

"I cried all my way to the bank." :wink:

[Jona Lendering]

The only question is who looks more awfully foolish: the "explorers" or their financers.

And here's one of the financers, with an interesting accusation (fraud). There's much to enjoy. :mrgreen:

[Jona Lendering]

The only question is who looks more awfully foolish: the "explorers" or their financers.

And here's one of the financers, with an interesting accusation (fraud). There's much to enjoy. :mrgreen:

There's even more to enjoy, like here: "carbon dating conducted on ... stone". :roll: :twisted:

[morhathol]

There's an article on it from National Geographic and while they don't write the same nonsense as other sources, the article is quite fishy I would say. At least by their standards.

However, this is the first time I've seen anything about the creationist attempts to recalibrate radiocarbon dating. I don't want to offend anyone, but... this isn't science, is it?

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Well that explains everything.....the radiocarbon dating technology has been seriously flawed all this time.
Just recalibrate it to date everything inside the actual age of the earth, and also use that tapping technique on the timber too,
as they can't be any older than 6 thousand years old, and the mystery will be solved in a jiffy!!!

As they like to say, if the evidence doesn't fit, force it!! :roll: :wink:

[Robert Vermaat]

There's an article on it from National Geographic and while they don't write the same nonsense as other sources, the article is quite fishy I would say. At least by their standards.

Fishy? More like political. At least that's how I read it. NG does not make it a mockery, but their opinion is clear. Without spelling it out, they are convined the 'discovery' is bogus - from start to finish they put questionmarks to the 'discovery', and quote others who make comments like:

The Noah's Ark Ministries International explorers are "playing in a very different ballpark than the rest of us," Zimansky said. "They're playing without any concern for" the archaeological, historical, and geological records.

[Peroni]

Yep! definately there...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mountararat/1360274501/
http://rookery2.viary.com/storagev12/10 ... 0_2bee.jpg

[ArthuroftheBritons]

Definitely suspicious, but if it's a hoax, it is definitely one of the more convincing ones. I especially love their excuse not to reveal the location "We're waiting until it is a UNSECO heritage site so that people won't destroy it..." convenient, isn't it?