The Great Noah’s Ark Hoax
by D.M. Murdock
Examiner.com
April 28, 2010
You can hardly blame the Turks around Ararat. There’s a lot of money being poured into the local economy from these numerous creationist expeditions. It only makes sense to salt a few sites with chunks of wood… Dr. P.Z. Myers
Good news for bibliolaters! At last, there is evidence that the Bible is true – well, actually, it’s pretty much the same “evidence,” over and over again.
News agencies have been reporting that a Chinese and Turkish team of “evangelical explorers” have discovered the “real” Noah’s Ark, the wooden ship recorded in the Bible to have contained two (Gen 6:19) – or is it seven (Gen 7:2)? – of every animal on the entire planet, including whales and kangaroos! (Okay, so the Bible doesn’t say exactly that, but the story implies that the world’s subsequent many thousand species were reseeded after the flood by the happy animals of the ark.) Along with the announcement came pictures of a “boat” supposedly found at 13,000 feet on Mt. Ararat in Turkey that has allegedly been carbon-dated to around 4,800 years ago.
The reasons for doubting this alleged discovery are many, including the plethora of previous purported “arks” dating back centuries, a fact that immediately causes one to turn a jaundiced eye toward this one as well. Continue reading “Chinese Evangelical Explorers “Find” the Real Noah’s Ark”