On Tue Jul 25 2000 - 13:53:23 EDT,
Wendee Holtcamp (wendee@greendzn.com) wrote:
>Does anyone know anything about the scientific validity
>of any of this? My pastor sent this to me. (ugh).
Mr . Wyatt's so-called "Noah's Ark" has been demonstrated
to a natural geologic struture that geologists call a "doubly
plunging syncline." This has been documented in an article
about Mr . Wyatt's Noah's Ark that was published in the
September 1996, "Journal of Geoscience Education," Collins
and Fashold (1996). Collins and Fashold (1996) stated in the
abstract of the article:
"A natural rock structure near Dogubayazit, Turkey, has
been misindentified as Noah's Ark. Microscopic studies
of a supposed iron bracket show that it is derived from
weathered volcanic minerals. Supposed metal-braced
walls are natural concentrations of limonite and magnetite
in steeply inclined sedimentary layers in the limbs of a
doubly plunging syncline . Supposed fossilized
gopherwood bark bark is crinkled metamorphosed
peridotite."
What Mr. Wyatt considers to be the "hull" of his Noah's
Ark consists of rock too brittle and heavy to have been
part of a ship. Also, the boulders claimed to be the
"anchors stones" of Noah's Ark were examined and found
to be composed of a local volcanic rock, "andesite",
not found in Mespotamia (Collins and Fasold 1996).
There is no evidence that the alleged "anchors" have
been transported any distance, except possibly downslope,
and that they were even "anchors" at all. Instead,
they are likely local boulders.
Some URLs about it:
Has Noah's Ark Been Found? Part I
http://www.tentmaker.org/WAR/HasNoahsArkBeenFound1.html
Has Noah's Ark Been Found? Part II
http://www.tentmaker.org/WAR/HasNoahsArkBeenFound2.html
Could this be Noah's Ark?
http://answersingenesis.org/docs/1154.asp
Letter from John Baumgardner
http://www.tentmaker.org/WAR/BaumgardnerLetter.html
NOTE: Coffin is the author of "Origins by Design."
Then there is:
Collins, L. Gene, and David Franklin Fasold (1996) Bogus
"Noah's Ark" from Turkey Exposed as a Common
Geological Structure. Journal of Geoscience Education.
vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 439-444.
This article can be found on-line at:
http://www.csun.edu/~vcgeo005/bogus.html
>next, the site I told you about the amateur archeologist,
>with whom I am fascinated, and on many points am
>inclined to suppose that he is definitely on to
>something. I just wish I could personally verify or
>falsify these things myself. Take some time to
>explore the site and you can see that it seems
>amateurish, low budget, not connected with any
>prestigious institution, but on many points it
>seems to me to be credible and substantive.
http://www.wyattmuseum.com/NOAHSARK3.htm
Yours,
Keith littleton
littlejo@vnet.net
New Orleans, LA
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