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Noah's Ark found?

Sorry to revive such an old thread, but they're back!!!

CHARLOTTE, N.C.—More than five years ago, a Hong Kong-based team from Noah’s Ark Ministries International (NAMI) made headlines with the announcement of a discovery of an ancient wooden structure thought to be the ark of biblical times.

Now, the discoverer who led NAMI to the site at Mount Ararat in Turkey will be a part of a special event coordinated by Southern Evangelical Seminary (SES, www.ses.edu) at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 15, when new and exciting information about the discovery of the structure will be presented by a panel of eyewitness explorers and experts.

The Noah’s Ark presentations are planned for the day before the kickoff of the 22nd annual National Conference on Christian Apologetics, to be held at Calvary Church in Charlotte, N.C., on Oct. 16-17, so that a watching world can decide for itself if this evidence finally proves that the ark discovery is legitimate.
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http://ses.edu/news-events/news/does-new-eyewitness-evidence-point-to-noahs-ark1

I think the word we're looking for is gullible, or maybe dishonest.
 
Noah's Ark rediscovered!

It's been found

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/tech...k-of-genesis/ar-BBHrTY4?li=AAgfYrC&ocid=wispr

More than 100 international researchers recently convened for a three-day symposium to discuss new evidence that the Biblical ark from the Book of Genesis made landfall at Mount Ararat in Turkey, according to the Nation. One "ark hunter" in particular believe he’s found the ark’s final resting place.
“The result of my findings will be published in books, publications and journals, but at this point it is too early to know what we are going to find,” Raul Esperante of the Geoscience Research Institute said, according to the Nation. “Once the scientific community knows about the existence of Noah’s Ark in Mount Ararat, we can make it available to the general public.”
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They followed certain signs which led them to the discovery


https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/04/7e/67/78/noah-s-ark-site.jpg
 
“The result of my findings will be published in books, publications and journals, but at this point it is too early to know what we are going to find,” Raul Esperante of the Geoscience Research Institute said, according to the Nation. “Once the scientific community knows about the existence of Noah’s Ark in Mount Ararat, we can make it available to the general public.”
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Esperante. That would mean "hopeful", or some such.
 
His c.v. on one site (the only one I checked) says Dr. Raul got his PhD in Paleontology from Loma Linda University.

1. Could someone with better Google Fu than me check. I find that they offer a PhD in Earth Sciences, not in Paleontology.
2. Some churches run some good schools. Loma Linda is run by the 7th Day Adventists. I have no idea what they stand for, but the institute he says he's from is also run by the 7DA.

It would seem his interest in this site is more as a 7th Day Adventist/Creationist than as a Dr. of Anything.
 
Foolmewunz said:
His c.v. on one site (the only one I checked) says Dr. Raul got his PhD in Paleontology from Loma Linda University.

1. Could someone with better Google Fu than me check. I find that they offer a PhD in Earth Sciences, not in Paleontology.
2. Some churches run some good schools. Loma Linda is run by the 7th Day Adventists. I have no idea what they stand for, but the institute he says he's from is also run by the 7DA.

It would seem his interest in this site is more as a 7th Day Adventist/Creationist than as a Dr. of Anything.
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The Seventh-Day Adventist ChurchWP consists of Biblical literalists awaiting the imminent Second
Coming. My father's mother was one. I think we can rule out the likelihood of a scientific treatment by them of reports of Noah's Ark on Mt Ararat.
 
They said that carbon dating had revealed the wood to be around 4,800 years old, which conceivably places it in the same historical period as when the flood was said to have occurred.
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But but but... they don't believe in carbon dating. So...?
 
4800 years? Wow, amazing how many civilizations flourishing at the time of the Flood managed to simply hold their collective breaths and keep on keepin’ on....
 
Craig B said:
The Seventh-Day Adventist ChurchWP consists of Biblical literalists awaiting the imminent Second
Coming. My father's mother was one. I think we can rule out the likelihood of a scientific treatment by them of reports of Noah's Ark on Mt Ararat.
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This "discovery" is at least 40 years old. I held in my hand a so-called fragment of the Ark my senior year in college. I was a Seventh-day Adventist then (a liberal and very critical one) Some Ark adventurer delivered an assembly lecture at my alma mater, now Southern Adventist University. He was mounting yet another expedition to recover Noah's Ark, and as proof of viability, he had pieces of cypress wood he claimed were from the Ark.

My friends in the Theology department were very impressed. One of them named Rick scored high on the gullibility meter. I went to a local railroad track and snagged a fragment of an old tie. It looked just like the so-called Ark fragment. Then I called Rick and a couple of other true believers to my room. I told them some BS about how I had obtained a fragment of the Ark of my own. They bought it. I could have sold him the piece. Before they made utter fools of themselves, I told them where I'd gotten the piece of wood, and why they should be critical of hucksters.

The lecturer presented a slide photo of that same oblong geological formation, claiming it was the remains of Noah's Ark. This scam has sure gotten a lot of mileage over the years.
 
On a lighter note, its storming in the Netherlands at the moment and the replica Ark someone built (using reinforced steel and other contemporary methods) has been blown off its moorings.
As it turns out the thing is not actually sea or even lake worthy, so the passengers had to be rescued :)
 
Lukraak_Sisser said:
On a lighter note, its storming in the Netherlands at the moment and the replica Ark someone built (using reinforced steel and other contemporary methods) has been blown off its moorings.
As it turns out the thing is not actually sea or even lake worthy, so the passengers had to be rescued :)
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It's OK. It just had to be Bible worthy.
 
Lukraak_Sisser said:
On a lighter note, its storming in the Netherlands at the moment and the replica Ark someone built (using reinforced steel and other contemporary methods) has been blown off its moorings.
As it turns out the thing is not actually sea or even lake worthy, so the passengers had to be rescued :)
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Well it's quite obvious that if the Ark got into trouble then the owners and patrons faith just wasn't strong enough.:rolleyes:
 
Thor 2 said:
Well it's quite obvious that if the Ark got into trouble then the owners and patrons faith just wasn't strong enough.:rolleyes:
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That is little consolation for the owners of the yachts that were moored next to it and got damaged.
 
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