Posted on 06/30/2006 8:26:43 AM PDT by DannyTN
Team believes it found Noah's Ark Returns from Iranian mountain with petrified wood, marine fossils
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: June 30, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
A 14-man crew that included evangelical apologist Josh McDowell says it returned from a trek to a mountain in Iran with possible evidence of the remains of Noah's Ark.
The group, led by explorer Bob Cornuke, found an unusual object perched on a slope 13,120 feet above sea level.
Cornuke, president of the archeological Base Institute and a veteran of nearly 30 expeditions in search of Bible artifacts and locations, said he is cautiously, but enthusiastically, optimistic about the find.
Some of the team's photos can be seen here.
Also on the team were Barry Rand, former CEO of Avis; Boone Powell, former CEO of Baylor Medical Systems; and Arch Bonnema, president of Joshua Financial.
The team returned with video footage of a large black formation, about 400 feet long – the length of the ark, according to the Bible – that looks like rock but bears the image of hundreds of massive, wooden, hand-hewn beams.
Bonnema observed: "These beams not only look like petrified wood, they are so impressive that they look like real wood – this is an amazing discovery that may be the oldest shipwreck in recorded history."
The team said one piece of the blackened rock is "cut" at 90-degree angle.
Sealed with pitch
Even more intriguing, they said, some of the wood-like rocks tested this week proved to be petrified wood.
It's noteworthy, they pointed out, that the Bible recounts Noah sealed his ark with pitch, a black substance.
When the retrieved pieces were cut open, a marine fossil was discovered. In the area around the object, the team found thousands of fossilized sea shells, and Cornuke brought back a one-inch thick rock slab replete with fossilized clams.
With the discovery of wood splinters and broken pottery at the remote 15,300-foot level, the team says it also found evidence that ancients considered it an important worship site for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
Cornuke became involved in the search for the ark after meeting Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin, participating with him in several searches on Mount Ararat in Turkey, but with disappointing results.
Cornuke began looking elsewhere, after finding clues in the Bible such as Genesis 11's reference to descendants of Noah coming to the Mesopotamian valley from the east. Cornuke believes that would put the biblical mountains of Ararat somewhere in northern Iran.
He also points to ancient historians such as Nicholas of Damascus and Flavius Josephus who wrote, just before and after Christ, that timbers of the ark had survived in the higher mountains of present-day Iran.
Cornuke noted that during World War II, an American Army officer and road construction engineer in Iran named Ed Davis said he saw the ark on a high mountain in the country after being led there by Iranian friends. After the war, according to Cornuke, Davis passed a lie detector test affirming he saw timbers from an ark-like object.
Before his death, Davis gave Cornuke a map showing the way to the object.
"It was right where Ed said it was in his map," Cornuke said. "After seeing it from a distance, I thought it at first unimpressive, but once we stood on the object we were all amazed at how it looked just like a huge pile of black and brown stone beams."
Noah tours
Cornuke's is the latest of many expeditions – most of them at Turkey's Mount Ararat – in search of Noah's Ark.
As WorldNetDaily reported, a new travel website is promoting summer tours to a Turkish site near Mount Ararat believed by many to be the fossilized remains of Noah's Ark.
Many believe this is Noah's Ark, already found on a mountain next to Mt. Ararat (courtesy: wyattmuseum.com)
Noah's Ark Holidays, which bills itself as an "ethical travel referral website" is behind the offer, with a pitch for the location in Dogubayazit, Turkey.
The late Ron Wyatt, whose Tennessee-based foundation, Wyatt Archaeological Research, also believed the ark is located at Dogubayazit, some 12-15 miles from Ararat.
Meanwhile, as WorldNetDaily reported in March, others who believe the vessel is on Ararat itself became excited with the release of a new, high-resolution digital image of what has become known as the "Ararat Anomaly."
Satellite image of 'Ararat Anomaly,' taken by DigitalGlobe's QuickBird Satellite in 2003 and made public for the first time in March 2006 (courtesy: DigitalGlobe)
The location of the anomaly on the mountain's northwest corner has been under investigation from afar by ark hunters for years, but it has remained unexplored, with the government of Turkey not granting any scientific expedition permission to explore on site.
In both the Old and New Testaments, the Bible speaks of Noah and the ark, and Jesus Christ and the apostles Paul and Peter all make reference to Noah's flood as an actual historical event.
According to Genesis, Noah was a righteous man who was instructed by God to construct a large vessel to hold his family and many species of animals, as a massive deluge was coming to purify the world which had become corrupt.
'Noah's Ark' by Pennsylvania artist Edward Hicks, 1846
Genesis 6:5 states: "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
Noah was told by God to take aboard seven pairs of each of the "clean" animals – that is to say, those permissible to eat – and two each of the "unclean" variety. (Gen. 7:2)
Though the Bible says it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, it also mentions "the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days."
The ark then "rested" upon the mountains of Ararat, but it was still months before Noah and his family – his wife, his three sons and the sons' wives – were able to leave the ark and begin replenishing the world.
Didn't the Weekly World News already report that Noah's Ark was found on the moon?
I understand and agree with you. It would make more sense if it was frozen wood instead of petrified wood. We don't know a process for mountaintop pertrification. Doesn't mean one doesn't exist. But their claim of lab tests lacked details and is so far unsubstantiated. It badly needs independent verification.
You do realize Weekly World News is satire and often very irreligious. The Onion is much more believable.
Just look at the headlines from their "Prophecy section"
THE 'BUZZ' ABOUT EVOLUTION Dr. Delambre is an entomologist -- a scientist who studies insects -- and he has his own theory regarding human origins.
POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE WILL LEAVE CALIFORNIA STANDING A DEVASTATING earthquake will strike California in the next five to ten years -- with a force so powerful it will plunge the rest of the country into the sea, and leave the Golden State intact, experts say.
TODDLER PSYCHIC! 3-year-old predicts future with shocking accuracy!
BIBLE'S 4 HORSEMEN ASK FOR DIRECTIONS IN PARIS PARIS - A funny thing happened on the way to Doomsday - theFour Horsemen of the Apocalypse got lost and had to ask fordirections!
AMERICA IS A TICKING TIME BOMB Millions of unsuspecting Americans are at risk of dying suddenly and without warning in one of five looming natural disasters that nobody ever talks about but scientists agree "are ticking time bombs just waiting to happen."
FOUR HORSEMEN KILLING THE COMPETITION - AT POLO CLUBS! THE BIBLE'S Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are causing problems again -- this time at a posh polo club in Texas.
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES HIRE CORPORATE FORTUNE TELLERS THE MOST valued employees in many Fortune 500 companies aren't salesmen, market analysts or accountants -- they're fortune tellers!
EVIL MOLE PEOPLE FOUND IN WYOMING Mutant creatures are fast. They've got long, sharp claws. Their tunnels are littered with books on making nuclear bombs . . . and they HATE AMERICANS!
HOLY VISION IN TOILET SAVES GAL FROM SUICIDE
yeah, but there is no reason to believe they are pre-biblical. In fact, it's much more likely based on textual analysis that those texts are a distortion of the Biblical account.
You are missing the point. If you take the position that there must be a "natural" explanation for every aspect of the Noah's flood story, then you must dismiss the story out of hand. The story itself claims that God brought the animals to Noah. That's not something you are ever going to observe in Nature again.
Tigers and pigs feeding together.
We could get down to basics. What is time?
Philosophy and science have not arrived at a definitive answer to your question, which is why I am disinclined to accept as true those propositions that are contrary to the biblical texts.
When? What is now?
Well obviously, by definition, I can't name "unknown unknowns". But I can name some known unknowns.
Known Unknowns
For an interesting read see this A review of: "Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science by H. Arp"
... and while carrying footballs, too.
Thank you for the valuable link.!
b'shem Y'shua
Did you read the one about man evolved from Insects. "We produce wax like a bee, just haven't found a market for it yet."
The link I posted in 189 is a review of a book about redshifts. The book is written by a non-creationist and has several criticisms of the current interpretation of redshifts.
The review of the book is by a creationist and on a creationist website.
Another interesting claim of the book is that Big Bang enthusiasts rewrote history with regard to background radiation. Big Bang advocates had originally predicted a much higher radiation level, whereas non Big Bang theorists had predicted accurately.
No, unfortunately we aren't kidding. The Christian God is loving, but He is also a God of justice. And true love demands justice. There is room for mercy with the repentant, but those that remain unrepentant must eventually be judged.
God provided His reasons..Gen 5:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. ... 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
The Lord gave the people 100 years warning while Noah built the ark.
But the physical punishment on man, is nothing compared to the spiritual punishment for those that remain unrepentant. God takes unrepentant evil very very seriously.
Notice that most of my verses are from the New Testament. Jesus is that same God that flooded the world, ordered the complete destruction of the culture in Canaan, reigned fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gemorrah. God is patient and hopeful that man will repent, but he won't put up with evil forever.
Weren't all of them?"
Each one is more believable than the last. It's inductive, you see.
OK, I'll bite. What's the "Pixie Theory of Aerodynamics"?
That which is measured by clocks.
"OK," you say. "What's a clock?"
Answer: Something that measures time.
No. What is to measure?
I'd appreciate it if you'd refrain from drawing any more attention to my obviously circular argument. ;-)
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