Archaeologists Digging at the Noah's Ark Site Say They Have Wood. The Kind Ships are Made From.
... It’s because it proves that Darwinism is a lie, it proves we can’t evolve outside of our kind, and it proves that we aren’t a product of evolutionary apes from millions of years ago.
It means every single human on earth can trace their ancestry back to the eight survivors on Noahs Ark, less than 5000 years ago.
As she states a few seconds into this clip, Lauren Witzke is the Director of Marketing and Fundraising for Noah's Ark Scans, the group that is working with the permission of the Turkish government and some of the world's top researchers to explore the formation found at the top of Mt. Ararat, the final resting place of the Ark, according to the Bible:
I can't confirm nor deny Witzke's first talking point. I admit I don't keep a power ranking of "Most Attacked Archaeological Studies" in my head the way I do, say, "Most Enjoyable Beer (The one you have before noon when you're on vacation)," or "Hottest Actress in a Specific Role in a Totally Clean Movie (Donna Reed, It's a Wonderful Life)." But I'm sure that if this particular survey isn't No. 1 on the list, it's way up there.
Because her second assertion is spot on. Any suggestion these people have found Noah's Ark in the exact spot the Old Testament describes it came to rest after the waters of the Great Flood is going to get pushback, to say the very least. So much of what conventional wisdom claims to be true about human history would be reduced to ashes if a ship build to the exact specifications Noah was given in the Book of Genesis, made of the same materials described, using ancient methods, was found exactly where it's supposed to be. And it would go a long way toward not only proving Noah was the contractor, but also the existence of the One who put him up to the task.
And if what Witzke says is correct, it's so far, so good on this research:
Source - Researchers investigating the Durupınar Formation near Mount Ararat recently announced that pieces of charred wood were found about 30 feet below the surface.
Now, the first photographs of the fragments have been released, revealing blackened, cracked wood with visible grain patterns and markings that researchers believe may have been made by ancient tools.
Archaeologist Dr Cenker Atila told FOX News: 'One of the wooden pieces clearly shows signs of human workmanship.
'Its surface appears to have been slightly shaped and flattened using an axe or a knife.
'The fact that these wooden fragments were found at such a considerable depth indicates that they may belong to an ancient period.'
The samples have been sent to four independent laboratories in different countries to determine their age, identify the type of wood and investigate their origins.
So now we wait for the independent labs to come back with their findings. To determine if the the material is 5,000 years old. If it's gopher wood, as specified in the text. If the markings on are consistent with the tools used in the era. If, as Witzke claims, it appears burned intentionally because burning was used as a means of waterproofing boats, and so on.
Which, if true, we could add to the claims already made by Noah's Ark Scans:
'This is the most significant finding of 45 years of my career. It's not geologic-related, because we masked all the geologic features,' [veteran US defense scientist Dr. Khosrow] Bakhtar said in a late October press release.
The latest investigation builds on a 2019 radar survey that detected straight lines and angular patterns the team interpreted as possible walls, passageways and compartments.
This year, Bakhtar examined the formation using a more powerful radar system developed through US Air Force research, capable of reaching deeper underground.
The team reported detecting large underground boundaries and spaces that it interpreted as possible sediment-filled chambers, corridors and tunnels.
Five prominent features appeared to form a possible tunnel system stretching roughly 151 feet, with an average height of more than 14 feet.
Researchers also identified a thick underground layer that appeared to contain three separate sublayers, drawing comparisons with the Bible's description of an ark built with three decks.
As I've said in all my past blogs on this archaeological dig, skepticism here is very healthy. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence," and all that. It would be a mistake to get ahead of ourselves, proclaim definitive truth that the Genesis version of evidence is true, only to trace these materials back to the Ararat Home Depot in 2007. So it's smart to take our time, stick to the Scientific Method, and keep and open mind. Just not so open that our brains fall out. I'm advising caution on all this.
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But let's say, for the sake of argument, the more they discover, the more it stays consistent with the Biblical story. Then practically everything we've been told since about the Enlightenment that the Bible is all just fairy tales and silly superstition.
Giphy Images.That supposedly great thinkers like Darwin, Freud and Voltaire were wrong. And the ones who pursued science as a means to explore the divine creation like Newton, Kepler and Copernicus were right all along.
When I was a kid going to CCD classes taught by my classmates dad down the street, we were being taught that stories like Noah's Ark and the Garden of Eden were just stories. Metaphors. Allegories meant to get metatruths in a way the people of the time could comprehend them. Now we might be on the verge of discovering the Old Testament was a more literal truth. And on this particular chapter of the story, Noah's Ark Scans is talking like they're batting 1.000 when it comes to proving it. Don't go anywhere. This is about to get good.