Arkologists Claim to Have Found Noah's Ark

[kazanova3]

Arkologists Claim to Have Found Noah's Ark


The Observer (London) by Martin Wroe



HEADLINE
LONDON -- Noah's Ark has been found on the Turkish-Iranian border, 32 kilometres from Mount Ararat, according to the leader of a team of scientists that has been investigating the site for six years.

The Turkish government is so convinced by the findings that, after years of intransigence, it has designated the site one of special archaeological interest and agreed to its excavation next summer.

The remote site contains a buried, ship-like object, resting an altitude of 2,300 metres. At 170 metres long and 45 metres wide, it conforms almost exactly to the 300 cubit by 50 cubit boat that God told Noah to build, according to Genesis 6 in the Bible.

On surrounding terrain, the American and Middle Eastern scientists have identified huge stones with holes carved at one end, which they believe are "drogue-stones," dragged behind ships in the ancient world to stabilise them. Radar soundings indicate unusual levels of iron-oxide distribution.

Salih Bayraktutan, head of geology at Turkey's Ataturk University, estimates the age of the 'vessel' at more than 100,000 years. "It is a man-made structure and for sure it is Noah's Ark." The site is directly below the mountain of Al Judi, named in the Koran as the Ark's resting place.

David Fasold, an American shipwreck specialist with no religious affiliation, has led the investigation. He says subsurface radar surveys of the site have produced "very good pictures." "The radar imagery at about 25 metres down from the stern is so clear that you can count the floorboards between the walls."

He believes the team has found the fossilised remains of the upper deck and that the original reed substructure has disappeared. But the findings have infuriated the scores of Christian Ark-hunters who travel to Turkey, convinced the Ark will only be found on Mount Ararat.

Fasold, who calls himself an "Arkologist," also argues that it was not a great flood that pushed the Ark into the mountains. He says it was "an astronomical event causing a tectonic upheaval, a tidal bore causing gravitational pull in the ocean waters that forced the boat into the mountains."

Some of Fasold's team of geophysicists and geologists are reserving final judgement until the excavation and carbon-dating. But in a British TV series on the environment next month, team member Vendyl Jones, a Middle East archaeologist and inspiration for film character Indiana Jones, says it is "between maybe and probably" that they have found Noah's Ark.


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The Quranic verse detailing about the resting place of the Noah's Ark is found in Chapter Hud, verse 44 (Quran 11:44). The verse says:

When the word went forth: "O earth! swallow up thy water and O sky! withhold (thy rain)!" and the water abated and the matter was ended. The Ark rested on Mount Judi and the word went forth: "Away with those who do wrong!"

The 49th verse of the same Chapter says:

Such are some of the stories of the Unseen which We have revealed unto you: before this neither you nor your people knew them. So persevere patiently: for the end is for those who are righteous.

[B_Ungaro]

Greetings Kasanova3,

As far back as 1958 there have been SCAMS about the ARK.

As of yet nobody has found the ARK. Thre is NO ARK. There is however a REWARD of a MILLION DOLLARS for finding the ARK. Nobody has claimed the MILLION DOLLARS. What does that tell you.

What are you smoking anyway?

[LippyChick]

Noah's Ark,

The FACTS as they are.

FACT 1 There was a world-wide flood some time ago, (you tell me when)
FACT 2 Everything and everyone on earth was wiped out in the said flood apart from Noah, his 3 sons, their wives and the creatures brought along on the ark.
FACT 3 Everyone is descended from Noah and his family, and all the animals were descended from the creatures he had on the ark.
FACT 4 This is all quite obvious from any study of fossils, rocks, the solar system etc and anyone who says otherwise is deluded at best and lying at worst.

Therefore we're all a bunch of inbred mutants! Don't you religious loonies have any concept of inbreeding? (Please be predictable, call me inbred)

How can that small gene pool have repopulated the world?

Or did we only have 2 toes in those days and the others have come around as a result of genetic mutation?

I await your replies.

LippyChick

[kazanova3]

the story of the flood that occurred in the days of the prophet Noah, on whom be peace. This event is narrated in both the Bible and the Qur▓an. A careful examination of the two versions will show that the Qur▓anic version could have come from no other source but God alone.
One important difference between the two accounts is that whereas the Bible describes the flood as a worldwide flood (see Genesis ch. 7) the Qur▓an mentions it as a local flood affecting the people of Noah (see Qur▓an 7:59-64). Today it is acknowledged that no record exists of a worldwide flood occurring at the time specified in the Bible. How did the author of the Qur▓an avoid this mistake unless the author was God Himself?
The closest thing in history to a flood like the one described in the Bible and the Qur▓an, is a discovery made by Archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Wooley. In 1929 he discovered remains from a flood which occurred around 4000 B.C. His findings are described in the book entitled The Bible as History by Werner Keller. Keller tells us:

The incredible discovery at Ur made headline news in the United States and in Britain (The Bible as History, 2nd Revised Edition, Bantam Books, 1980, p. 27).

But was this a worldwide flood? After describing the extent of the flood, Keller explains:

Looking at the map we should call it today ▒a local occurrence▓ (p. 28).

⌠In other words,■ writes Keller, that flood was ⌠obviously not of sufficient magnitude for the Biblical Flood■ (p. 29). Furthermore, he says: "A flood of the unimaginable extent described in the Bible still remains ▒archaeologically not demonstrated▓" (pp. 29-30).

[LippyChick]

Hey Tyssian and the boys,

This guys dissin' your guide book big time. I guess he's comming to the fire pit with me.

Kaz,

I'll keep you a seat warm But I guess there's no need

LippyChick

[kazanova3]

hi lippychick i hope you are okay any way wither in blackpool nice so,to keep the seat warm or not it doesnt matter??what we need and what we want is not confused??have nice time!!!!

[B_Ungaro]

Let us get back to the ARK. I want to see that sucker. I want to see it so bad that I set up my own reward for the ones who find it:

First Price: Tickets for TWO to one Manchaster City Game.

Second Price: Tickets for TWO to TWO Man. City Games.

Third Price: Tickets for TWO to THREE Man. City Games.

Let the contest begin!!!!!!