The story of Noah and his ark is one of the first stories kids learn in Sunday School.  He loaded the animals, two by two, onto the ark to preserve them, because God said he’d send a flood to punish the world for its wickedness.  Everybody laughed at Noah, until the rain started.  Now, a group of Christian archaeologists and “evangelical explorers” from Turkey and China have found the remains of Noah’s Ark on Mt. Ararat in Turkey. Carbon dating shows the wood to be 4,800 years old, if you believe the multinational group from Noah’s Ark Ministries International.

Turkey’s Mt. Ararat has long been believed to be the final resting place of the ark, as that’s the tallest mountain in the region and the first land that’d reappear after a flood of Biblical proportions.  Yeung Wing-cheung, a documentary filmmaker with the group, said, “It’s not 100% that it is Noah’s Ark, but we think it is 99.9% that this is it.”  The group recovered wood from a giant structure with multiple compartments, the likes of which could have been used to store animals.  The date of 4,800 years would put the object found right at the time of the flood, according to the group.

I’m not sure this is Noah’s Ark they’ve found, or even a boat.  It could be just a big, ancient barn.  Then again, I wasn’t there to find it, so what do I know?  I’m just skeptical about the possibility of finding anything that old that’s been exposed to the weather for 5,000 years, no matter how well built it was.

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