Researchers Who Believe They Found Noah's Ark Say it's '100% Confirmed' a Man-Made Object, and Not a Natural Geographical Feature
The work currently being carried out by the Noah's Ark Scans team in the mountains of Turkey is something I've mentioned posted about a couple of times before:
After all, this item they're scanning is at Mount Ararat, which is precisely where the Old Testament says the Ark landed as the flood waters receded. And since the Bible was more specific about the measurements than you'll find in a season's worth of The Great British Baking Show, the specs all seem to point to this being the Ark:
So this discovery - assuming it is one - is the ultimate "Big If True" news story. In fact, it would be hard to exaggerate the importance of this find. Even though some are trying their best to overstate it:
…validate the Bible
2) Confirmation of the Great Flood and/or Noah’s Ark would require Textbooks to be completely rewritten
3) Countless archaeologists, historians, professors, and so-called “experts” will permanently lose all credibility
They desperately want this to be debunked. The most comprehensive Scientific testing of this site is at last underway, the results haven’t even been published. YET, the naysayers are prematurely rallying against it, frantically hoping for it to be simply a natural geological formation.
The distinction between the truly opened-minds VS the closed-minds has never been more clear.
… told Noah to build the Ark with 3 floors).
Scientists confirm the formation is NOT geological. They say, and I quote, that it is a “man-made object” (one agnostic scientist said he thinks it could even be a space ship? lol)
No bedrock has been detected by even the most advanced scans (the same kind the U.S. Military uses to detect 50 meters from the surface. Biggest arguments by skeptics (who have never even been to the site) all claim the formation is bedrock, which we can confirm without a doubt that it is not.
The Top (and most exposed) tier is decaying and the hardened mudflow encasing the rims of the boat are basically the only thing holding it together. It’s very fragile (as to be expected with 4,300 year old wood). It was also custom for Silk Road travelers to detour to the Durupinar Formation so that they could take pieces of the exposed wood and pitch to make good luck charms, so some of the top tier is missing entirely.
But beneath the surface the bottom two layers appear to still be in tact, and we believe we have hit a floor of petrified wood (to be confirmed).
More to come!
Please consider supporting Noah’s Ark Scans and their work as they try to raise funds for core drilling and further additional lab testing and soil analysis. Even $25 covers a scientist’s meals for the day. Be a part of history!
I mean, you can be distrustful about the claims. And suspicious about the request for donations. Some healthy skepticism is a good thing at a time like this. It's part of human nature to make grandiose claims that turn out to be pure horseshit. And we should hold them all up to intense scrutiny. As I said in my own post about this, Carl Sagan put it best. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." And while I can accept certain things on faith, when you claim you've found the 4,300 year old Ark of the Bible, which will prove the story of Noah is not just a metaphor or a myth, but actual history, that's going to require the most extra extraordinary evidence.
And by way of full disclosure, Lauren Witke has some opinions that are, to put it mildly, controversial:
NY Post - Witzke is a controversial figure in American politics.
The former Senate candidate is a self-proclaimed “flat-earther,” has voiced support for the right-wing conspiracy theory QAnon, and once called the Covid vaccine a “satantic plot.”
And yet …
But while Witzke handles publicity for the team, it includes bona fide archaeologists and geologists from around the world, such as Project Director Dr. Cenker Atila, from Turkey’s Sivas Cumhuriyet University.
Still, these X posts are not wrong when they point out that some Ark skeptics have already made up their minds before the extraordinary evidence has even been collected or presented.
… elements in its story of Noah.
So even if this boat-shaped structure turns out to be some kind of ancient vessel, how could anyone prove it belonged specifically to Noah?
Where is the evidence connecting it to him?
It feels like they want it to be Noah’s Ark because it fits their biblical narrative, not because the evidence actually proves it.
You cannot find something shaped like a boat and attach a biblical name to it just to serve your own agenda.
This is just my two pennies’ worth on the subject.
What’s yours? Lets have a respectful conversation about it.
A respectful conversation is exactly what's called for.
As Graham Hancock and others have pointed out, pretty much every culture around the globe has an ancient flood myth. Which could mean that it's simply a archetype. Part of the human psyche. One of the stories we tell ourselves in order to comprehend our place in the world.
Or, it could be because it actually happened. And should this Noah's Ark Scans and this group of international experts do discover that this ship was built out of gopher wood and pitch, 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high, with evidence that animals lived in it, it's going to take a lot of convincing to make me think this is all just a coincidence. It's not like giant wooden boats filled with critters just appear on mountaintops all over the place.
To steal a phrase from GK Chesterton, we all need to keep an open mind on this. Just not so open that our brains fall out. So stay tuned on this. We may be a few weeks away from proof that everything we've been taught to believe over the past century and a half is wrong. And book that's been treated like fairy tales - the everyone believed for thousands of years - is the actual historic truth.