The jolly logo adorning this post is in honor of WorldNetDaily (WND), the journalistic organ that won our Buffoon Award and that keeps confirming the soundness of that decision.
Today’s astonishing news from WND is Evangelists claim Noah’s Ark found. It’s sub-titled: “Mount Ararat explorers: ‘We think it is 99.9 percent that this is it’.” Here are some excerpts, with bold added by us:
A new claim is being made for the discovery of Noah’s Ark, as the French news agency reports evangelical explorers from China and Turkey believe they may have found the remnants of the legendary biblical vessel.
“It’s not 100 percent that it is Noah’s Ark but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it,” Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker and member of the 15-strong team from Noah’s Ark Ministries International told Agence France-Presse.
WND didn’t provide a link to the website of that “documentary filmmaker” but we think this is it: Noah’s Ark Ministries. It’s pretty much what one would expect. They have a convenient button you can click to give them a donation. Let’s read on:
According to the report which provided no photos and few details, the team says it recovered wooden specimens from a structure on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey at an altitude of 13,000 feet, and that carbon dating suggested it was 4,800 years old.
They’ve already done carbon dating, but we’re provided with no photos and few details? Who cares — we love this story! Let’s see what else WND reports:
Yeung indicated there were several compartments inside, some with wooden beams, that could have housed animals.
Ooooh! Several compartments! It’s a great pity we aren’t shown photos. Let’s read on:
The group of archaeologists ruled out an established human settlement, explaining one had never been found above 11,500 feet in the vicinity, Yeung said.
He also told AFP local officials would ask the national government in Ankara to apply for United Nations World Heritage status so the site can be protected during an archaeological dig.
Wow — the UN! This is really important.
We won’t give you any more excerpts, because the rest of the WND article is a dreary catalog of earlier expeditions that attempted to find the Ark, and the fantastic claims made by those earlier “researchers.”
If you’re an Ark enthusiast, click over to WND and check it all out. This could be the most important discovery since … ah … well, since Elvis was spotted at a 7-11 buying some Slim Jims and a Dr. Pepper.
Addendum: We just spotted a headline on Drudge, leading to this: Noah’s Ark found in Turkey.]
Update: See Noah’s Ark Discovery: Competition Among Kooks.
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LOL! Carbon dating??? Really??????
Haaaaaaaaaaaahahaaahahaaaahaaaahaha!!!!!!!
LRA says: “LOL! Carbon dating??? Really??????”
You don’t believe them?
If Noah’s Ark is found on Mount Ararat, then this is evidence that the Bible is wrong. Genesis 8:4 says that the Ark landed “upon the mountains of Ararat”. The mountain got its name a long time after the Bible was written.
Seems Fox News has picked up this story. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/27/noahs-ark-found-turkey-ararat/
Carbon dating… But I thought that we weren’t supposed to trust those devil spawned dating methods. They are wildly inaccurate after all. Those remains could be from last week to 4.5 billion years old from some of the things AiG tells me.
Albanaeon says:
Carbon dating is acceptable, but only when it gives the proper results for the Shroud of Turin, Noah’s Ark, and perhaps a few other relics. It’s totally unreliable when used to date anything older than Creation Week.
To borrow from Lewis Black, my beloved country has lost its g-damn mind.
I will be in Turkey in late June, maybe I can find time to visit the lost ark, if I can manage to pull myself away from the naked Europeans on the Aegean beaches.
AIG is on the job. “Answers in Genesis has seen many photos that were released, but without corroboration by the leading creationist organizations and not knowing all the research methods that were employed, we will withhold judgment until further study. Over the decades, we have learned to be cautious about such Ark claims.”
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2010/04/27/noahs-ark-been-found
“without corroboration by the leading creationist organizations and not knowing all the research methods that were employed”
The organization that thinks that humans put saddles on dinosaurs and rode them like horses is worried about their research methods?
You’re right, Curdge. I forgot that these guys work on the “truthiness” principle.
James F says:
They’ve done their research. They know the Ark once existed. Whether this new “find” is that Ark is a separate issue.
Yep, this Ark hoax has gone to main stream.
Be prepared for floods of fundi’s coming out to boast that they were correct all along
Why don’t our main stream journalists look for credible sources ? Accepting NAMI’s claims is just ridicuk
Its clearly wood not that old. 5000 year old wood won’t hold up like that.
The wooden remains in egyptian tombs are long gone and that was a dry place.
The building was probably built in the cave to house people looking for the Ark !
Poor Ken Ham! Will no one listen to him?
I don’t know how true this is since it sounds like hearsay but, it says this latest find is a hoax:
http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/2010/04/noahs-ark-paleobabble-update