How many Arks did Noah build? Why have we found so many?

A Chinese-Turkish evangelical group Noah’s Ark Ministries International has claimed to have found Noah’s ark on the Turkish Mt. Ararat. The evangelical group who is leading the expedition have claimed that they are 99.99% sure that this is the real ark that housed Noah his family and a wide range of animals (dinosaurs included according to the Answers in Genesis’ Creation Museum).

Researchers who have studied this region for decades are saying that we need to have extremely cautious skepticism about this claim.

“You have to take everything out of context except the Bible to get something tolerable, and they’re not even working much with the Bible,” say’s Paul Zimansky. Paul is an an archaeologist at Stony Brook university who specializes in the area around Mt. Ararat.

The team leading the expedition Noah’s Ark Ministries International found wood compartments in a cave at the 14,700 foot level of Mt. Ararat. Along with the wood compartments they found straw inside these compartments. This is being shown as evidence that the compartments had housed animals at one point in time. Could it be possible that what the team found was nothing more than dwelling unit for just a regular person who just happened to reside on Mt Ararat about 1400 years ago? Paul Zimansky has shown that he is doubtful about this discovery. “It’s not inconceivable to me that they’ve found pieces of wood at that level, but that doesn’t mean they’ve found an ark,”.

The team has said that carbon dating done on the wood found at the site have dated it to being from 4,800 years ago, the approximate time that Noah is said to have built the ark. However, there has been doubt about how accurate the carbon dating process was since the team has not released who did the dating or any other relevant info. Recent dating on wood found in the area around where the “ark” was found have dated the wood to 1400 years ago. Much more recent than the 4800 years needed to show that it is from the same time period as the ark.

There is also a lack of evidence for there ever being a flood that could possibly get the ark to the 14,700 level where the wood was found. In fact there is not enough water on the surface of the planet to get an ark to this level.

The biggest problem with this is that the people who are claiming to have found the ark already have an anwer and they are now looking for the evidence to support it. This will often times lead to research teams making the evidence fit their claim with out proper testing and data. The truth is these researcher have made an extraordinary discovery in the fact they have possibly found a part in our history. The sad part about this is that they are trying to immediatly decide what they have found is Noah’s ark. Had an indepented researcher strolled upon this before NAMI we would have seen that they would have searched through the evidence and then found out exactly what they had found before making the press release. Most likely what we have here is simply an old dwelling on the mountain side since this is a very common discovery. Hopefully a real research team can take over this site to do their own research and give us the truth about what this is.