Ei vieläkään Nooan arkkia

Kiinalaisten ja turkkilaisten löytämä puurakennelma ei ole Nooan arkki. Tämä on selvä jo pelkästään globaalin vedenpaisumuksen olemattomuuden takia. Nyt jopa uskovaisten omat rivit ottavat etäisyyttä tuoreimpaan arkkilöydökseen.

Kreationisti Todd Wood johtaa Center for Origins Research laitosta. Hän on blogannut kolme selvää selitystä siitä miksi kiinalaisten löydös ei sovi edes kreationistin näkökulmaan.

1. They claim that radiocarbon dates the wood to 4800 years before present, but the Ark was constructed of pre-Flood wood, which would mean that the carbon dating should be much, much older.

2. The modern "Mt. Ararat" (Agri Dagh) is a post-Flood volcano. The Ark could not have landed on Agri Dagh because it did not exist at the end of the Flood, and even if it did land on modern Agri Dagh, it would have been destroyed by the many, many eruptions of Ararat since the Flood. You can observe all the fresh lava flows on Agri Dagh at Google Maps.

3. Given that the Flood survivors left the Ark to find a devastated world, the Ark would have been the best source of timber for the first decade or so. I think it highly likely that the Ark was dismantled to supply the growing population with building material for shelter.

Myös Institute of Creation Researchin tunnettu kreationisti John Morris on ilmoittanut skeptisyytensä.

Dr. John Morris, lead archeologist at the Institute for Creation Research, says "I'm leaning towards that the Chinese people have been deceived."

Morris has led 13 expeditions to Mount Ararat looking for the ark. He knows the area well and says of the recent find, "At best, it is an elaborate deception."

Morris and Price were contacted by the Chinese team to take part in the press event, but they declined based on how little evidence they saw.

Eikä siinäkään vielä kaikki.

Kristillisen Liberty yliopiston tohtori Randall Price on etsiskellyt arkkia ahkerasti. Siksi hän oli mukana, kun kiinalaiset ravasivat Araratille. Yksi Pricen opiskelijoista lähetti sähköpostia Mike Heiserille. Siinä on lainaus itse Priceltä, joka kommentoi kiinalaisten uutisoimaa arkkiuutista.

Tohtori Price oli kiinalaisten tutkimusmatkan jäsen kesällä 2008. Hän sai käsiinsä valokuvia, joiden nykyään väitetään olevan arkin sisältä. Price ja kumppanit sijoittivat touhuun 100´000 dollaria, jotka luvattiin palauttaa. Toistaiseksi rahoja ei ole saatu takaisin.

Pricen toteaa arkkilöydön huijaukseksi saamiensa tietojen ja omien kokemusten perusteella.

Puut on kannettu vuoristoon. Kiinalaiset ja turkkilaiset rakensivat niillä luolan näyttämään vanhalta huoneelta.

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 possible 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.

Tohtori Price vaatii riippumatonta tutkintaa, jotta arkkilöydöksen laatu saataisiin selville. Kun hardcore kreationistit eivät ota löytöä heti totena, niin todistusaineistossa on todellakin jotain epäilyttävää.

Lohdutuksena kreationisteille.