Web sites are buzzing over claims that remains from Noah’s Ark may have been found on Turkey’s Mount Ararat. The finders, led by an evangelical group, say they are "99.9 percent" that a wooden structure found on the mountainside was part of a ship that housed the Biblical Noah, his family and a menagerie of creatures during a giant flood 4,800 years ago.
But researchers who have spent decades studying the region – and fending off past claims of ark discoveries – caution that a boatload of skepticism is in order.
"You have to take everything out of context except the Bible to get something tolerable, and they're not even working much with the Bible," said Paul Zimansky, an archaeologist and historian at Stony Brook University who specializes in the Near East - and especially the region around Ararat, known as Urartu.
Cornell archaeologist Peter Ian Kuniholm, who has focused on Turkey for decades, was even more direct - saying that the reported find is a "crock."
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I wouldn't be so quick to put this on the same level as the global warming hoax after all they said the shroud was a fake too .
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ReplyDeleteThe Shroud of Turin has been proven to be a fraud many times over. What's funny is that with some Christians, carbon dating doesn't matter when it concerns the Shroud. But it's apparently empirical evidence when it comes to this "Noah's Ark". You can't have it both ways.
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ReplyDeleteThe shroud has never been proven a fraud carbon dating proved it was the right age there have been skeptics of course but they cannot say it is a fake all indicators prove it's the right age and real blood all in the correct places . And as far as having it both ways what are you blubbering about .
ReplyDeleteI always wonder about people who are so quick to follow Obama like a God yet cannot accept anything Chistian .
ReplyDelete2:57... I follow neither obama or god, but it makes much more logical sense to follow a living, breathing person who we can see and hear than it does to follow anything christian
ReplyDeletecarbon dating did NOT prove it to be the right age, it proved it to be from the Middle Ages, coincidentally a time when many, many fraudulent religious artifacts were created.
ReplyDeleteCarbon dating did say it was from the middle ages, however a smaller towel like that was used over Jesus face has the same markings as the shroud. Take it as you will, it's all in what you believe, remember faith is the belief among the absence of proof. Whiles they couldn't prove it was real, they also could not determined how it could have possibly been faked...
ReplyDelete4:58 Your facts are completely wrong carbon dating has put it at the correct age . What test proved it wrong ? Just because you want it that way is not scientific !
ReplyDeleteCarbon dating did not say it was from the middle ages it said it's from the time of Christ !
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