Well it's about time.
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Evangelist Group Says It's In Turkey
Noah's Ark has been found atop a mountain in Turkey, a team of Turkish and Chinese evangelical explorers said Monday, April 26.
The 15-person team claims to have recovered fragments of wood and pieces of rope from a structure on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey that carbon dating has put at 4,800 years old, roughly coinciding with the time the biblical flood was said to have been occurred.
UPDATE: Scroll down for photos of the supposed ark, posted to the group's Web site, and you be the judge of the evidence.
The team is a joint effort between Hong Kong-based Media Evangelism, Noah's Ark Ministry International and the Turkish government.
Yeung Wing-Cheung, a member of the team, told AFP, "It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's Ark but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it."
He said that the structure at the site featured wooden beams and several compartments that were believed to house animals.
However, the group has not revealed the location of the site beyond saying that it is 12,000 feet up the mountain. It has also failed to produce exterior photos of the structure.
Nicholas Purcell, a lecturer in Ancient History at Oxford University, called the claims "the usual nonsense," according to the Daily Mail.
"If floodwaters covered Eurasia 12,000 feet deep in 2,800 BC, how did the complex societies of Egypt and Mesopotamia, already many centuries old, keep right on regardless?" he said
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I thought radiometric dating, particularly carbon dating, was completely unreliable.... WTF!!! These people need to make up their minds!Darrel wrote:Well it's about time.
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Evangelist Group Says It's In Turkey
......that carbon dating has put at 4,800 years old, roughly coinciding with the time the biblical flood was said to have been occurred.
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DARDoug wrote: This happens so often one wonders how they can continue to bilk the same Evangelical donors out of their money, but then again that may not be much of a mystery...
Well, we are dealing with people who have thought "Jesus is coming" and "the end is near" for the last 2,000 years.
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No, you fool! You're allowed to use it when it "supports" your position. It's unreliable if and only if it doesn't support your position.kwlyon wrote:I thought radiometric dating, particularly carbon dating, was completely unreliable.... WTF!!! These people need to make up their minds!
(C'mon man, didn't you read the handbook?)
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Doug [Krueger?], and all the land would look like those scablands of the northwest!
Ah, errantists also cause me mirth; they call attention themselves to the falsehoods of the Bye-bull but sill manage to delude themselves that it has the message of hope. One told me that the Deluge means renewal, and I answered that there are better metaphors for that! Fr. Spong and others just can't fathom that we don't need their scriptures -fables- to get to that more abundant life that that dead cult leader promised.
Faith doth that to people!
"Logic is the bane of theists." Fr. Griggs
Ah, errantists also cause me mirth; they call attention themselves to the falsehoods of the Bye-bull but sill manage to delude themselves that it has the message of hope. One told me that the Deluge means renewal, and I answered that there are better metaphors for that! Fr. Spong and others just can't fathom that we don't need their scriptures -fables- to get to that more abundant life that that dead cult leader promised.
Faith doth that to people!
"Logic is the bane of theists." Fr. Griggs
God is in a worse shape than the Scarecrow who had a body to which a body could enter whiilst He has neither. He is that married bachelor. No wonder He is ineffab
"" Life is its own validation and reward and ultimate meaning."
"" Life is its own validation and reward and ultimate meaning."