A boat-shaped object thought by many to be the
fossilized remnants of the the vessel sits in Dogubayazit, Turkey, and was first
photographed in 1959 by a Turkish air-force pilot on a NATO mapping mission.
It gained worldwide attention after its photo
was published in a 1960 issue of Life Magazine.
The man most responsible for promoting this
location as the ark’s actual resting place from the Bible was Ron Wyatt, who
died of cancer in 1999 after years of searching for biblical antiquities, who also claimed to have found the remains of Pharaoh’s chariots that chased Moses
through the Red Sea and the “true” location of Mount Sinai in Arabia.
In 2004, Wyatt’s widow, Mary Nell Wyatt Lee,
published a history of the discovery in a book titled, “The Boat-Shaped Object
on Doomsday Mountain.”
She writes that on Dec. 12, 1987, “it was the
official decision of members of [Turkey's] Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of
Internal Affairs, and researchers from Ataturk University, among others, that
the boat-shaped formation did indeed contain the remains of Noah’s Ark!”
An Associated Press story from that month
read:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A group of Turkish
researchers has decided that a boat-shaped formation found in 1977 on a hill in
eastern Turkey is the remains of Noah’s Ark, a Turkish tourism official
says.
Mary Nell’s Cornersville, Tenn.-based
foundation, Wyatt Archaeological Research, is filled with on-location photographs and charts promoting its case with
physical evidence including radar scans of bulkheads on the alleged vessel, deck timber and iron rivets and large “drogue” stones, which are thought to have acted as types of
anchors.
However, there’s been no shortage of critics
from both scientific and Christian circles who think the Dogubayazit site is
erroneous.
Lorence Collins, a retired geology professor
from California State University, Northridge, joined the late David Fasold, a
one-time proponent of the Wyatt site, in writing a scientific summary claiming the location is
“bogus.”
“Evidence from microscopic studies and photo
analyses demonstrates that the supposed Ark near Dogubayazit is a completely
natural rock formation,” said the 1996 paper published in the Journal of
Geoscience Education. “It cannot have been Noah’s Ark nor even a man-made model.
It is understandable why early investigators falsely identified it.”
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.
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 (Genesis 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.”
Genesis 8:4 does not say the ark rested on “Mount Ararat,” but rather the “mountains of Ararat,” and 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.
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