FOX NEWS: "remains of Noah's Ark have been discovered 13,000 feet up a Turkish mountain"

[L. Coyote]

Finally, someone looked high enough :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Has Noah's Ark Been Found on Turkish Mountaintop?
Updated April 27, 2010
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/27/noahs-ark-found-turkey-arafat/

The remains of Noah's Ark have been discovered 13,000 feet up a Turkish mountain -- according to a sensational claim by evangelical explorers.

A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say wooden remains they have discovered on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey are the remains of Noah's Ark.

The group claims that carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old, meaning they date to around the same time the ark was said to be afloat. Mt. Ararat has long been suspected as the final resting place of the craft by evangelicals and literalists hoping to validate biblical stories.

Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah's Ark Ministries International research team that made the discovery, said: "It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it."

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13,000 feet up a mountain :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Are these people on drugs or what? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

And, just how high are those stellar journalists at FOX? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

13,000 feet up a mountain :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[beyurslf]

1. Maybe they will find the forbidden tree of life next.

[Bluebear]

5. And the burning bush, if the flood didn't put it out.

:silly:

[beyurslf]

19. True. It has to be around there somewhere.

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

2. send Palin and cameras on an expedition

[wtmusic]

3. If there were dinosaur bones inside, evolution is screwed. nt

[spanone]

4. psss, faux....'It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's Ark..' they have an out, do you?

[muriel_volestrangler]

46. Their 'out' is phrasing the sensationalist headline as a question

It's a technique widely used in British tabloids - take some idiotic claim, fill up the bulk of the report with the dodgy evidence and claims, bury a one sentence rebuttal somewhere deep in it, and then put the headline as a question. If challenged that you're spreading bullshit, you say "we just asked the question, and gave both sides".

[Enthusiast]

51. There is no Noah's Ark.

It is mythology because there is no geological evidence of a world wide flood (ever), only local flooding.

[Lost-in-FL]

6. Yeah... discovered right next to the Turin Shroud. nt

[d_b]

7. p0w!

[LiberalFighter]

15. Looks too new. I bet someone planted it there.

[Greyskye]

24. See post #23

(you win!)

[tabatha]

34. Well, I think a baby elephant could fit in there.

But a whole heap of other animals could not.

[RB TexLa]

8. This boat on the mountain has been depicted in art from the area for a long time

Probably some wise merchants trying to drum up tourism years and years ago.

[cali]

9. it's not finally. It's been "discovered" there several times before.

[Divine Discontent]

11. yeah, more like 'rediscovered'...

[Mojeoux]

Yeah, why is this new? n/t

[CatholicEdHead]

27. Yep, so true

and it was inconclusive at best, disproven at worst.

[cbdo2007]

45. I'm going back in a few years to "Discover" it again...may as well cash in...

[Xipe Totec]

10. I think they found Noah's previously unknown Fleet

[Warpy]

12. Yeah, same thing that spawned a hundred bad cable TV shows

after it was discovered in 1993. Too bad it turned out to be a rock outcropping.

However, good on them for waiting 17 years before announcing they'd discovered it all again.

[Crabby Appleton]

13. Again?

[Speck Tater]

14. OMFG! The ignorance is just overwhelming. The human race is truly doomed to extinction. nt

[L. Coyote]

29. FOX News should be doomed to extinction for this kind of CRAP.

[Speck Tater]

37. They need to sponser an expedition to the north pole to find Santa's workshop. nt

[greencharlie]

64. it's been on numerous news sources for days... FAUX just cut/pastes nt

[underseasurveyor]

16. Tell me they aren't using carbon dating

= THAT'S SCIENCE:wow: to prove their theories on god.

So if that's the case carbon dating on dinosaur bones proving the earth has existed more than 6000 years will then be accepted as fact too.

[JoeyT]

30. They're not using carbon dating.

Even if they WERE using carbon dating, it'd just mean someone found some 5000 year old wood. Hell I've got fossilized wood that's far older than that that I use as a paperweight. I wonder if they'd listen to me if I insisted I'd found a hunk of Yggdrasil.
And I think you mean radiometric dating (which includes carbon) for dinosaurs. The age limit for carbon is about 50k years. Not that they care. Science is only useful on the rare occasion it can be twisted to suit their purposes. The rest of the time it's the work of the debbil. Course since they're being all sciencey about it, we all know they'll release it to an independent lab for analysis and peer review.

At least one of the times they tried this crap it turned out to be plain old boards soaked in soy sauce to make them look old.

[underseasurveyor]

35. LOL an independent lab

in the vatican and the peer review will be a panel of old men in robes. THEN we'll know the real truth. Not like all those other 'fake' truths before:rofl:

[SkyDaddy7]

60. NO NO NO!

Carbon dating only works on those artifacts GAWD wants it to work on...If carbon dating shows something is older than 6000yrs then it is GAWD telling us we are wrong, try again!

[Arugula Latte]

17. Seriously, how stupid do you have to be to believe tha myth literally?

There are 450,000 different species of beetles. That means Noah would have had to have brought 900,000 individual beetles on board. Doesn't leave much room for the elephants and camels, eh?

[FSogol]

22. Well, it would solve what to do with the elephant and camel dung.

:shrug:


It is not 100% certain, it is only 99.9% certain! :rofl:

[mwb970]

49. Never mind the dozens of other Flood stories.

Many, many religions have (incompatible) variations on this watery tale. Just like many religions have Persecuted Saviors dying for our sins. Noah and Jesus just had the best PR.

[SpiralHawk]

54. There are over 200 verisons of the Great Flood story in cultures around the world

including the Hopi and Anishinabe teachings here on Turtle Island.

[beyurslf]

58. I remember telling that to some religious family members.

They said that just proves the flood is true since so many cultures reported it. LOL!!!

[ncteechur]

18. They did this bit on "In Search Of..." back in the 70s

same story different decade

[MineralMan]

20. Q: ARE WE NOT MEN? A:WE ARE DEVO!

As in devolution.

[high density]

21. I love that this is in the "science and technology" section of Fox News

Wonderful.

[GoCubsGo]

53. I love that nobody else is reporting it

LOL!

[SkyDaddy7]

61. That just proves FOX News is RIGHT!

The godless Liberal Media will not report this ground breaking discovery because it proves GAWD exist!
:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[HillWilliam]

63. Given that most of Faux Snooze's original staff started out

writing two-headed, cow-mutilating alien baby stories and weekly Elvis sightings at Murdoch's former "news" venture, I'm not really surprised. Heh!

Faux is just the old Enquirer with pictures that move and racket that comes out, Murdoch's answer to the Busy Box, perfectly on the freeper IQ level. Not coincidentally, just the way the old Enquirer was. Simple things for simple minds.

[Greyskye]

23. HOAX! (According to source)

brooklynite posted this that he found at FR. Here is his thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=8225853

No source links, but here is the text posted to The Site Which Shall Not Be Named:

Dear Friends,
Many of you have seen the preliminary news announcement of an alleged discovery of Noah’s Ark by a Chinese expedition team and asked me for clarification. I knew this was coming and have been praying about how to respond.

I was the archaeologist with the Chinese expedition in the summer of 2008 and was given photos of what they now are reporting to be the inside of the Ark. I and my partners invested $100,000 in this expedition (described below) which they have retained, despite their promise and our requests to return it, since it was not used for the expedition. The information given below is my opinion based on what I have seen and heard (from others who claim to have been eyewitnesses or know the exact details).

To make a long story short: this is all reported to be a fake. The photos were reputed to have been taken off site near the Black Sea, but the film footage the Chinese now have was shot on location on Mt. Ararat. In the late summer of 2008 ten Kurdish workers hired by Parasut, the guide used by the Chinese, are said to have planted large wood beams taken from an old structure in the Black Sea area (where the photos were originally taken) at the Mt. Ararat site. In the winter of 2008 a Chinese climber taken by Parasut’s men to the site saw the wood, but couldn’t get inside because of the severe weather conditions. During the summer of 2009 more wood was planted inside a cave at the site. The Chinese team went in the late summer of 2009 (I was there at the time and knew about the hoax) and was shown the cave with the wood and made their film. As I said, I have the photos of the inside of the so-called Ark (that show cobwebs in the corners of rafters - something just not p! ossible in these conditions) and our Kurdish partner in Dogubabyazit (the village at the foot of Mt. Ararat) has all of the facts about the location, the men who planted the wood, and even the truck that transported it.

To my knowledge, the Chinese took no professional archaeologist or geologist who could verify or document the wood or the structure in situ (in its place of discovery). They were duped in 2006-2007 by Parasut when they were shown a similar cave with something they thought was wood. I met the Chinese when I went with a team of geologists to examine the “wood” in Dogubabyazit and to report that it was volcanic rock (called “tuff”) and not wood. Thereafter, since the Chinese were apparently able to get permits to climb in previously off-limit sites, I and two other professionals joined with the Chinese (bringing our own independent satellite data) and went with them to Mt. Ararat in 2008. During that expedition, the guide Parasut who claimed to have found the Ark, was constantly drunk and after one month sitting in a hotel waiting, the expedition never happened. It was at this time that I made contact with Dr. Richard Bright who has climbed Mt. Ararat 33 times in sea! rch of the Ark and with several others climbed the western side of Mt. Ararat with a shepherd (who had recently been discovered by Dr. Bright’s Kurdish partner) who knew the location of a piece of the Ark. Last year we had a good expedition to a higher site (the satellite site) and this summer we will excavate the shepherd’s site and have every reason to expect success.

I am sorry to have to report that this is apparently a fake (and I am sure that the Chinese do not know this, but they do not respond to my e-mails), however, we do hope soon to have the real thing.

I encourage your prayers for me and others who will have to explain this “discovery” to many others - because negative reports are never well received and motives are questioned, especially when those doing so are part of a competitive expedition. But we do not want people to reject the truth of the Bible because another Noah’s Ark report turns out to be false. We prefer to as clear upfront in our reporting as possible so Christians (and others) can make up their own minds.

I hope that this will be helpful to you at this time,

Randall Price
Archaeologist
Ark Search LLC Expedition
World of the Bible Ministries

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[SpiralHawk]

55. Typical tale of republicon 'christian' family values in play...

...sheesh...

[deutsey]

57. It wasn't that long ago that people actually believed fairies were fluttering

around the English countryside:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

"In a 1985 television interview on Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling the author of Sherlock Holmes: 'Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.' In the same interview Frances said: 'I never even thought of it as being a fraud – it was just Elsie and I having a bit of fun and I can't understand to this day why they were taken in – they wanted to be taken in.'"

[Historic NY]

25. Even ardent scientific supporters don't believe the claims.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/04/27/2280442.aspx?p=6

http://www.tccsa.tc/articles/wyatt.html

[L. Coyote]

26. But FOX runs a story in Science .... ROFLMAO

[Caretha]

28. The Ark

is rediscovered on Mt. Ararat every 20 to 25 years or so. It's like your kid telling you a joke he thinks no one has ever heard.....little did he know his grandmother & grandfather invented it.

[daleo]

40. Have you got Prince Albert in a can?

[SpiralHawk]

56. Here I sit broken hearted

Believed a Fox 'news' story
but it really only farted

[Generic Brad]

31. Didn't the Weekly World News run this same story about 20 years ago?

This sounds oddly familiar.

[RagAss]

33. yes...and the headline was "Midget Astronaut Trains in Washing Machine"

[DRoseDARs]

32. Noted atheist biologist blogger PZ Meyers was particularly amused with the "carbon dating" bit.

"Oh, yeah. Now the creationists are willing to say carbon-dating is valid."
If Fox News and Wing Nut Daily say it's true, it must be so

[Canuckistanian]

36. "evangelical explorers"

Is that like "fundamental paleontologists"? Or "religious microbiologists"?

I'll wait for the inevitable debunking by REAL scientists, thanks.

[Snarkoleptic]

38. Mebbe Geraldo can redeem himself following the failed Al Capone's vault excavation?

[daleo]

39. They also found the true cross

And are selling pieces on E-Bay.

[cynatnite]

41. I thought Leonard Nimoy did an "In Search Of..." faux documentary about this. n/t

[Canuckistanian]

42. And the remains of Fox News' integrity was found in a NY sewer

It's not 100% certain, but certainly 99.9% certain.

[LeftyMom]

43. Every few years a new scam artist fleeces the pious with this one.

The pious, naturally, never seem to get any smarter.

[spanone]

44. my local news reported it as fact..99.9 percent it's true they said...such depth of reporting

:sarcasm:

[entanglement]

47. Thanks, I needed the comic relief - have a long day's work ahead

:rofl:

[Puzzler]

48. So they trust carbon dating for "Noah's Ark" but not for anything else?

[Enthusiast]

50. LMAO!

[Viking12]

52. Where do you think the Yeti has been hiiding all these years?

[mstinamotorcity]

59. Well if its coming from faux news

it must be true, or halfway true, or half a lie, or a whole lie, pick one

[NeedleCast]

62. How many times has Noah's Ark been discovered now?

Seems like this story surfaces every 3-4 years.

[bridgit]

65. Oh yes, but FOX is way behind the curve on this one cause the story is a very old one...

And not simply because it involves Noah but because Erich von Däniken has been ref'ing it since the 60's or is it the 600's I forget. FOX just ran out of ways to give their god-less, idiot Rev Phelps-esque zombie army their daily dose of whack & chubby that I feel sure they have initiated into the like-minded, already whack & chubby filled hands of their resident "Arrh-mah-deee-don!!" phony christian anchor: Sarah Palin

Either way I don't know why FOX didn't call me first cause *I* have a pic, see?

And a pic is worth a thousand words

http://www.noahsarksearch.com/anomaly_hays_review.htm