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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #302
Saturday, May 1, 2010

Australia and the Pacific

 Brighton bypass significance confirmed

· 04/30/2010 8:08:40 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 2 replies · 54+ views ·
· Australian Broadcasting Corp ·
· April 26, 2010 ·
· Robert Paton ·

Archaeologists have confirmed an Aboriginal site in the path of a major Tasmanian highway contains the oldest evidence of human habitation in the southern hemisphere. About 3 million Indigenous artefacts were discovered at the Jordan River levee north of Hobart. The State Government commissioned archaeologists to examine the site after the Aboriginal community raised concerns that construction of the Brighton bypass could damage it. The site's archaeological director, Rob Paton, says the final report on the dig confirms some artefacts are about 40,000 years old. "They're stone artefacts, they're used for day to day living, cutting and sharpening. It's that...

Farty Shades of Green

 Archaeologists baffled over 'bizarre' Viking discovery [Irish eyes smiling]

· 04/30/2010 7:37:23 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 11 replies · 506+ views ·
· Irish Examiner ·
· Wednesday, April 28, 2010 ·
· Gordon Deegan ·

A team of Irish archaeologists is puzzled by the "bizarre" discovery of a 1,150-year-old Viking necklace in a cave in the Burren. Besides being the largest by far -- up to 12 times longer than previous finds -- the team is puzzled by how such a "high-status" Viking treasure came to lie in the Burren, an area never settled by the Norsemen. The site where the necklace was found at Glencurran Cave was described by team leader Dr Marion Dowd of Sligo IT as a "treasure trove" for archaeologists. The necklace is one of a number of major items discovered...

British Isles

 Carlisle dig's Roman finds of 'international importance' -- report

· 04/30/2010 8:26:53 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 4 replies · 136+ views ·
· Cumberland News (UK) ·
· Friday, April 30, 2010 ·
· Victoria Brenan ·

A 936-page report into the Millennium dig in the grounds of Carlisle castle in 1999 has now been published, detailing the 80,000 artefacts discovered and what they reveal about Roman life in the city. Archaeologists dug five trenches on the Castle Green and Eastern Way and, over the following three years, unearthed a huge quantity of pottery, armour, weapons, and, unusually, wooden remains. They normally rot away but, because of the waterlogged soil, 2,000 large pieces of timber were discovered... also saw 2662 fragments of pottery -- including 442 bowls from Gaul -- 536 Roman coins, 30,250 bits of animal...

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 'Epigenetic' concepts offer new approach to degenerative disease (Dietary approach?)

· 04/28/2010 4:17:12 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 10 replies · 243+ views ·
· Federation of American Societies
  for Experimental Biology ·
· Apr 28, 2010 ·
· Unknown ·

ANAHEIM, CA -- In studies on cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders and other degenerative conditions, some scientists are moving away from the "nature versus nurture" debate, and are finding you're not a creature of either genetics or environment, but both - with enormous implications for a new approach to health. The new field of "epigenetics" is rapidly revealing how people, plants and animals do start with a certain genetic code at conception. But, the choice of which genes are "expressed," or activated, is strongly affected by environmental influences. The expression of genes can change quite rapidly over time, they can...

Longer Perspectives

 New Drug May Treat Cystic Fibrosis, Other Diseases Caused by "Nonsense Mutations,"...

· 04/27/2010 2:42:28 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 4 replies · 171+ views ·
· University of Alabama at Birmingham ·
· Apr 26, 2010 ·
· Unknown ·

Inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis can be caused by genetic "nonsense mutations" that disrupt the way human cells make proteins. David Bedwell, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Microbiology, says scientists are now closer to producing drugs that will fix this disruption and drastically improve treatment of genetic disease. Bedwell is a renowned researcher on the select group of genetic alterations called nonsense mutations - DNA alterations that can lead to nonfunctional or missing proteins. He presented recent findings on an experimental drug that may help to treat some cystic fibrosis patients...

Prehistory & Origins

 Ancient DNA suggests new hominid line

· 04/25/2010 8:28:57 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 25 replies · 533+ views ·
· ScienceNews ·
· Apr 24, 2010 ·
· Bruce Bower ·

A new member of the human evolutionary family has been proposed for the first time based on an ancient genetic sequence, not fossil bones. Even more surprising, this novel and still mysterious hominid, if confirmed, would have lived near Stone Age Neandertals and Homo sapiens. "It was a shock to find DNA from a new type of ancestor that has not been on our radar screens," says geneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. These enigmatic hominids left Africa in a previously unsuspected migration around 1 million years ago, a team led by...

Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles

 New "Splinter Cell" Super-Immune Cells Created; Ready to Fight Cancer, AIDS

· 04/29/2010 1:46:20 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach ·
· 9 replies · 252+ views ·
· Daily Tech ·
· April 27, 2010 7:45 PM ·
· Jason Mick (Blog) ·

Why use drugs, when you can improve the body's own designs? Evolution has bestowed mammals with amazingly complex and robust immune systems capable of fighting off a variety of foreign invaders including fungi, bacteria, and viruses. The immune system is also capable of detecting cancerous cells -- cells in which mutations have led to uncontrolled growth which threatens to engulf normal healthy tissues. The problem is that even nature sometimes falls short. The immune system's T Cells, special cells used to fight extreme abnormalities such as AIDS and cancer (note, a special type of T cell fights HIV-infected T cells in AIDS), often...

Catastrophism and Astronomy

 WHOI scientists find ancient asphalt domes off California coast (Maltenes?)

· 04/25/2010 3:07:30 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 35 replies · 1,042+ views ·
· Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ·
· Apr 25, 2010 ·
· Unknown ·

They paved paradise and, it turns out, actually did put up a parking lot. A big one. Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal resort, Santa Barbara, sits a group of football-field-sized asphalt domes unlike any other underwater features known to exist. About 35,000 years ago, a series of apparent undersea volcanoes deposited massive flows of petroleum 10 miles offshore. The deposits hardened into domes that were discovered recently by scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and UC Santa Barbara (UCSB). Their report -- co-authored with researchers from UC Davis, the University of Sydney...

Dinosaurs

 Dinosaurs died from sudden temperature drop 'not comet strike', scientists claim

· 04/25/2010 6:50:12 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach ·
· 41 replies · 906+ views ·
· Telegraph ·
· Apr 24, 2010 ·
· Andrew Hough ·

Dinosaurs were wiped out by sudden drop in temperatures, not by comet striking the planet, scientists claimed. British researchers claim that a sudden plummeting in the sea temperature of 16F (9C) more than 137 million years ago was the first step towards their eventual road to extinction. While studying fossils and minerals from the Arctic Svalbard, Norway, they concluded the sudden change in the Atlantic Gulf Stream during the Cretaceous period would almost certainly have wiped out the ''abundance'' of the world's dinosaurs.

PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis

 Research shows part of Alaska inundated by ancient megafloods

· 04/28/2010 12:23:15 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 35 replies · 445+ views ·
· University of Washington ·
· Apr 28, 2010 ·
· Unknown ·

New research indicates that one of the largest fresh-water floods in Earth's history happened about 17,000 years ago and inundated a large area of Alaska that is now occupied in part by the city of Wasilla, widely known because of the 2008 presidential campaign. The event was one of at least four "megafloods" as Glacial Lake Atna breached ice dams and discharged water. The lake covered more than 3,500 square miles in the Copper River Basin northeast of Anchorage and Wasilla. The megaflood that covered the Wasilla region released as much as 1,400 cubic kilometers, or 336 cubic miles, of...

Climate

 Ancient Artifacts Revealed as Northern Ice Patches Melt

· 04/26/2010 11:35:18 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Frenchtown Dan ·
· 34 replies · 1,012+ views ·
· Science daily ·
· 4/26/2010 ·
· Science Daily ·

High in the Mackenzie Mountains, scientists are finding a treasure trove of ancient hunting tools being revealed as warming temperatures melt patches of ice that have been in place for thousands of years.

Anatolia

 Flood Expedition Inspires 'Noah's Ark' in Bulgaria

· 08/27/2002 5:12:41 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Tancred ·
· 1 replies · 286+ views ·
· Reuters ·
· August 27, 2002 ·
· Reuters ·

Flood Expedition Inspires 'Noah's Ark' in Bulgaria Tue Aug 27, 7:17 AM ET SOFIA, Bulgaria (Reuters) -- An expedition looking to prove that the great biblical flood occurred in the Black Sea has inspired Bulgarian entrepreneurs to build a replica of Noah's Ark aimed at luring tourists. The wooden vessel, 368 feet long, will shelter exotic animals while actors play the biblical figures of Noah and his family, project manager Nikolai Kanchev said Monday. The Ark will be built near the Black Sea resort of Slanchev Bryag and open for visitors next year, Kanchev told Reuters. Last year U.S. geologist...


 CIA Releases New 'Noah's Ark' Documents

· 11/21/2002 11:50:10 AM PST ·
· Posted by Ready2go ·
· 129 replies · 1,311+ views ·
· Insight Mag ·
· Nov. 13, 2002 ·
· Timothy W. Maier ·

CIA Releases New 'Noah's Ark' Documents Posted Nov. 13, 2002 By Timothy W. Maier Is it the Ark, or just a piece of rock? Two years after Insight filed an appeal charging that the CIA withheld documents and imagery concerning the Mount Ararat anomaly in Turkey, the CIA has released two new documents to Insight that indicate the search for "Noah's Ark" reached the level of the White House under former president George H.W. Bush. The appeal, filed one month after Insight's exclusive story (see "Anomaly or Noah's Ark?"; Nov. 20, 2000), comes on the heels of the CIA's releasing...


 Update: Noah's Ark Investigation

· 04/15/2003 6:54:23 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Prince Charles ·
· 15 replies · 479+ views ·
· Insight ·
· 4-15-03 ·
· Timothy W. Maier ·

Update: Noah's Ark Investigation Posted April 15, 2003 By Timothy W. Maier Nearly a week after the CIA released another record from its secret "Noah's Ark" file, this one including a note saying that U.S. intelligence agencies immediately destroy records from reconnaissance missions, Insight received another batch of declassified records that suggest the U.S. Navy may have shot a series of pictures of the anomaly on Mount Ararat. in 1974. The released records consist of a 1993 memo to the deputy director of the CIA from William H.J. Manthorpe Jr. , deputy director of Naval Intelligence, and notes from a...


 Update: Noah's Ark Investigation

· 04/16/2003 3:32:02 PM PDT ·
· Posted by green team 1999 ·
· 41 replies · 709+ views ·
· Insightmag.com ·
· april-15-2003 ·
· By Timothy W. Maier ·

Update: Noah's Ark Investigation Posted April 15, 2003 By Timothy W. Maier Nearly a week after the CIA released another record from its secret "Noah's Ark" file, this one including a note saying that U.S. intelligence agencies immediately destroy records from reconnaissance missions, Insight received another batch of declassified records that suggest the U.S. Navy may have shot a series of pictures of the anomaly on Mount Ararat. in 1974. The released records consist of a 1993 memo to the deputy director of the CIA from William H.J. Manthorpe Jr. , deputy director of Naval Intelligence, and notes from a...


 The Gospel According to the Zoo

· 05/17/2003 7:33:29 PM PDT ·
· Posted by fightinJAG ·
· 1 replies · 241+ views ·
· Deutsche Welle ·
· May 17, 2003 ·
· Staff ·

The Gospel According to the Zoo Animals at the Osnabruck Zoo are part of the cast of the story of creation this summer. Zookeepers in Osnabruck, Germany, are building their own metaphorical Noah's Ark to teach school children stories from the bible, incorporating gazelles, lions and even ostriches. A gaggle of school kids is gathered in front of the goat enclosure at the local zoo in Osnabruck, Germany. Like most young children, they are intrigued by the creatures and poke their fingers through the fence, attempting to grab hold of the animal's horns. But today's lesson for the third-grade class...


 Noah's Ark takes ride on biblical side with ad

· 06/16/2003 1:14:19 PM PDT ·
· Posted by rattrap ·
· 16 replies · 294+ views ·
· Milwaukee Journal Sentinal Online ·
· June 15, 2003 ·
· DORIS HAJEWSKI ·

Noah's Ark takes ride on biblical side with ad Attraction aims to make park weather-proof By DORIS HAJEWSKI dhajewski@journalsentinel.com Last Updated: June 15, 2003 Noah's Ark is going biblical with a new ad to promote the Wisconsin Dells water park this season. Noah's Ark Ad A coffee shop in heaven is the setting for the new 30-second TV ad, which marks a departure from the tried-and-true amusement park format that typically shows kids enjoying the rides. The new ad, running now on broadcast and cable stations around the state, has Noah and Moses competing for the attention of a pretty...


 Scientists hunt for evidence of Noah's flood in Black Sea

· 07/17/2003 7:27:18 AM PDT ·
· Posted by presidio9 ·
· 65 replies · 561+ views ·
· Associated Press ·
· 7/16/2003 ·

In 1994, archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert rode around northern Turkey in a dirty white Toyota van looking for evidence of ancient civilizations around the Black Sea. Every time he and his team would ask locals for the whereabouts of centuries-old ruins, they'd get the same response. "Everyone kept pointing us to the sea," Hiebert recalled.


 Scientists hunt for evidence of Noah's flood in Black Sea -

· 07/17/2003 5:42:16 PM PDT ·
· Posted by UnklGene ·
· 7 replies · 172+ views ·
· WorldNetDaily ·
· July 16, 2003 ·

Posted 7/16/2003 2:45 PM Scientists hunt for evidence of Noah's flood in Black Sea NARRAGANSETT, R.I. (AP) -- In 1994, archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert rode around northern Turkey in a dirty white Toyota van looking for evidence of ancient civilizations around the Black Sea. Every time he and his team would ask locals for the whereabouts of centuries-old ruins, they'd get the same response. "Everyone kept pointing us to the sea," Hiebert recalled. Hiebert knows now why they did. After some preliminary trips, the University of Pennsylvania professor and other scientists will go on a first-ever effort to excavate ancient ships...


 Explorer Who Discovered The 'Titanic' Sets Out To Prove That Noah's Flood Formed Black Sea

· 07/22/2003 6:51:44 PM PDT ·
· Posted by blam ·
· 32 replies · 936+ views ·
· Independent (UK) ·
· 7-23-2003 ·
· David Usborne ·

Explorer who discovered the 'Titanic' sets out to prove that Noah's flood formed Black Sea By David Usborne 23 July 2003 The Bible tells us how the Great Flood happened, compelling Noah to herd all of animal life into his Ark. The skies opened and it rained incessantly, in fact for 40 days and 40 nights. But some scientists have another theory altogether and this week an expedition will leave for the Black Sea to try to prove it. Among the team will be Robert Ballard, the American underwater explorer who became famous when he found the Titanic beneath the...


 In Search of Noah's Ark

· 07/23/2003 7:03:32 AM PDT ·
· Posted by LOL Clinton Was Impeached ·
· 134 replies · 450+ views ·
· MSNBC ·
· July 21st, 2003 ·
· Eve Conant ·

He found the Titanic. Now Robert Ballard hunts the quarry of a lifetime July 21 issue -- Ten thousand years ago, the Black Sea was a freshwater lake in the middle of a vast, low-lying basin. Its fertile valleys and lush pastures would have given Neolithic hunter-gatherers a perfect opportunity to make the leap to a more settled, agricultural society. But then disaster struck. ABOUT 7,500 YEARS ago the ice age ended, the world's climate warmed and the seas rose. The Aegean Sea breached a narrow strip of land, where the Strait of Bosporus is today, like a dam bursting....


 Believers In The Lost Ark (Noah's)

· 08/08/2003 6:56:40 PM PDT ·
· Posted by blam ·
· 24 replies · 531+ views ·
· The Guardian (UK) ·
· 8-9-2003 ·
· Karen Armstrong ·

Believers in the lost Ark Treating myth as fact misunderstands the meaning of religion Karen Armstrong Saturday August 9, 2003 The Guardian (UK) The explorer who discovered the Titanic beneath the Atlantic in 1985 is setting out on another underwater expedition to document Noah's flood. The Black Sea was originally a freshwater lake that in ancient times became inundated by the salty Mediterranean. Robert Ballard believes that this was a cataclysmic event that occurred about 7,500 years ago, and was possibly the deluge described in the Bible. Ballard's critics are sceptical: they argue that the infiltration of the Black Sea...


 If Noah lived today.

· 08/22/2003 10:40:24 AM PDT ·
· Posted by aynfan ·
· 27 replies · 373+ views ·
· Internet ·
· 08/22/03 ·
· unknown ·

IF NOAH WERE ALIVE TODAY It is the year 2003 and Noah lives in the United States. The Lord speaks to Noah and says: "In one year I am going to make it rain and cover the whole earth with water until all is destroyed. But I want you to save the righteous people and two of every kind of living thing on the earth. Therefore, I am commanding you to build an Ark." In a flash of lightning, God delivered the specifications for an Ark. Fearful and trembling, Noah took the plans and agreed to build the Ark. "Remember,"...


 Did Noah Go Through Flood in Wooden Submarine?

· 10/30/2003 1:04:06 PM PST ·
· Posted by sonsofliberty2000 ·
· 40 replies · 209+ views ·
· Pravda ·

Did Noah Go Through Flood in Wooden Submarine? -- 10/30/2003 16:02 A Russian expedition managed to discover remains of the legendary ark Within the past years, results of aero and space photography have proved that there is some wooden construction in the glacier on the top of the Ararat mountain. This huge construction looks very much like an ark. But as Turks (as is known, the Ararat mountain is situated on the territory of Turkey) do not allow foreigners to this part of the country, it has not been yet found out what the construction is in fact. At the...


 Noah Claim Annoys Scientists

· 01/08/2004 7:02:31 PM PST ·
· Posted by blam ·
· 45 replies · 310+ views ·
· The Guardian (UK) ·
· 1-9-2004 ·
· Duncan Campbell ·

Noah claim annoys scientists Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Friday January 9, 2004 The Guardian (UK) Noah and his ark have entered the choppy waters of a debate about the age and geological history of the Grand Canyon. For years, geologists have held that the 217-mile-long canyon in Arizona was fashioned by the Colorado river between 5m and 6m years ago, and contains some of the oldest exposed rocks on Earth. But now a book sold in the offical Grand Canyon park bookstore suggests that it was created by the flood that is reported in the book of Genesis. Grand...


 Animals into the ark two by two? Not if you believe the BBC

· 03/06/2004 4:50:17 PM PST ·
· Posted by Pokey78 ·
· 76 replies · 502+ views ·
· The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ·
· 03/07/04 ·
· Chris Hastings ·

The Biblical story of Noah's ark is a "great myth", devoid of any scientific or historical credibility according to a new BBC programme about the great flood. Noah's Ark, which has been produced by the Corporation's religion and ethics division, argues that there is no evidence to support the idea of an ark, a global flood or even a man called Noah. It claims that the story in the Book of Genesis was a fabrication inspired by the story of King Gilgamesh, who was caught up in a flood while trying to transport his own livestock. Gilgamesh, who was King...


 BBC Report: Noah's Ark "...more credible version based on Babylonian sources."

· 03/19/2004 10:44:41 AM PST ·
· Posted by yankeedame ·
· 111 replies · 686+ views ·
· BBC On Line ·
· Friday, 19 March, 2004 ·
· Jeremy Bowen ·

Last Updated: Friday, 19 March, 2004, 11:06 GMT Did Noah really build an ark? By Jeremy Bowen Presenter, Noah's Ark In the Bible, God tells Noah he has to build an ark and load a pair of every kind of animal before a great flood engulfs the world. It is widely regarded as a myth, but could it actually be true? The story of Noah and his ark is one which sticks in the minds of children and never gets forgotten. God warned Noah -- the only good man left in a world full of corruption and violence -- to...


 Noah's Ark Found? Company Claims Commercial Satellite Has Picture Proof

· 04/26/2004 7:13:00 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Brett66 ·
· 85 replies · 1,271+ views ·
· Space.com ·
· 4/26/04 ·
· Space.com ·

April 26 Noah's Ark Found? Company Claims Commercial Satellite Has Picture Proof Satellite photos of Mount Aratat, Turkey taken by commercial imaging satellite company Digital Globe released today are said to contain proof of the existence of the biblical Noah's Ark. The images, revealed at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. (see right), are said to reveal a man-made structure at the site where the Bible states the vessel came to rest. The claim was made by Daniel P. McGivern, president of Shamrock -- The Trinity Corporation, who according to a press release has been...


 Expedition Will Seek to Find Noah's Ark

· 04/26/2004 6:19:02 PM PDT ·
· Posted by wagglebee ·
· 29 replies · 358+ views ·
· FoxNews.com ·
· 4/26/04 ·
· Associated Press ·

An expedition is being planned for this summer to the upper reaches of Turkey's Mount Ararat (search) where organizers hope to prove an object nestled amid the snow and ice is Noah's Ark (search). A joint U.S.-Turkish team of 10 explorers plans to make the arduous trek up Turkey's tallest mountain, at 17,820 feet, from July 15 to August 15, subject to the approval of the Turkish government, said Daniel P. McGivern, president of Shamrock_The Trinity Corporation of Honolulu, Hawaii. The goal: to enter what they believe to be a mammoth structure some 45 feet high, 75 feet wide and...


 Satellite photos spark Noah's Ark trek

· 04/26/2004 10:48:33 PM PDT ·
· Posted by JohnHuang2 ·
· 19 replies · 651+ views ·
· WorldNetDaily.com ·
· Tuesday, April 27, 2004 ·

A team of scientists, archaeologists and forensic experts plan to climb Turkey's Mt. Ararat this summer in quest of evidence that will prove they have discovered Noah's Ark. Satellite photos taken last year at the height of a record-warm summer, give Daniel P. McGivern confidence he has discovered the biblical icon. "These new photos unequivocally show a man made object," McGivern told reporters at the National Press Club in Washington. "I am convinced that the excavation of the object and the results of tests run on any collected samples will prove that it is Noah's Ark," said McGivern, president of...


 Expedition Will Seek to Find Noah's Ark

· 04/27/2004 5:00:15 AM PDT ·
· Posted by a_Turk ·
· 49 replies · 519+ views ·
· AP ·
· 4/27/2004 ·
· HOPE YEN ·

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An expedition is being planned for this summer to the upper reaches of Turkey's Mount Ararat where organizers hope to prove an object nestled amid the snow and ice is Noah's Ark. A joint U.S.-Turkish team of 10 explorers plans to make the arduous trek up Turkey's tallest mountain, at 17,820 feet, from July 15 to August 15, subject to the approval of the Turkish government, said Daniel P. McGivern, president of Shamrock-The Trinity Corporation of Honolulu, Hawaii. The goal: to enter what they believe to be a mammoth structure some 45 feet high, 75 feet wide...


 Noah's Ark Found? Turkey Expedition Planned For Summer

· 04/28/2004 1:17:42 PM PDT ·
· Posted by blam ·
· 90 replies · 1,781+ views ·
· National Geographic News ·
· 4-27-2004 ·
· Hillary Mayall ·

Noah's Ark Found? Turkey Expedition Planned for Summer Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News April 27, 2004 Satellite pictures taken last summer of Mount Ararat in Turkey may reveal the final resting place of Noah's ark, according to Daniel McGivern, the businessman and Christian activist behind a planned summer 2004 expedition to investigate the site. "We're telling people we're 98 percent sure," said McGivern, a member of the Hawaii Christian Coalition. "In one image we saw the beams, saw the wood. I'm convinced that the excavation of the object and the results of tests run on any collected samples will...


 Flash: Noah To Appear Before Genesis 7:11 Commission [40 days, who knew what and when?]

· 07/08/2004 6:52:18 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SJackson ·
· 13 replies · 635+ views ·
· Jewish Press ·
· 7-7-04 ·
· EDWARD FINKELSTEIN ·

HARAN, Mesopotamia (Reuters) -- Excitement swept through the Fertile Crescent earlier today after it was reported that Noah, the man who played such a central role in the epic flood, would finally be appearing before the Genesis 7:11 Commission. The Commission, which is investigating why it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, has been seeking Noah -- s testimony for many months. However, Noah -- s attorneys had been refusing to allow Noah to testify due to a pending criminal investigation of allegedly illegal ark dumping. A major breakthrough came earlier this week when the Anatolian District Attorney's Office dropped all criminal charges...


 Noah's Ark Expedition News?

· 07/23/2004 4:21:47 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Integrityrocks ·
· 10 replies · 1,218+ views ·
· Vanity ·
· IngegrityRocks ·

Has anyone found any "recent" news on the Noah's Ark Expedition that was supposed to start in Turkey up Mt. Ararat on July 17th? I searched Google and found a lot of sites discussing it back in April and May, but nothing about the expedition status. Anyone else have any news?


 Black Sea Trip Yields No Flood Conclusion (Noah's Flood?)

· 07/31/2004 4:37:21 PM PDT ·
· Posted by blam ·
· 7 replies · 985+ views ·
· Newsday ·
· 7-31-2004 ·
· Richard Lewis ·

Black Sea Trip Yields No Flood Conclusions By RICHARD C. LEWIS Associated Press Writer July 30, 2004, 2:06 PM EDT PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Four years ago, scientists thought they had found the perfect place to settle the Noah flood debate: A farmer's house on a bluff overlooking the Black Sea built about 7,500 years ago -- just before tidal waves inundated the homestead, submerged miles of coastline and turned the freshwater lake into a salty sea. Some believed the rectangular site of stones and wood could help solve the age-old question of whether the Black Sea's flooding was the event...


 Russian researchers about to unravel the mystery of Noah's Ark

· 12/09/2005 10:42:52 AM PST ·
· Posted by Red Badger ·
· 23 replies · 1,488+ views ·
· Pravda (Trust but Verify) ·
· 12/09/2005 ·
· Staff ·

The men went to explore the Ahora Gorge on the north-west slope of Ararat It has become some sort of a tradition to make sensational statements about discovery of Noah's Ark every year in October -- November. As a rule, the exact place is not mentioned at that for two reasons. Either these people know the exact location of Noah's Ark and try to keep it secret, or make such sensational statements having no grounds at all just to have their names made public in connection with the sacred mystery. Noah's Ark This year, legendary mountain-climber President of Russia's...


 New photo resparks 'Noah's Ark mania'

· 03/09/2006 11:30:41 PM PST ·
· Posted by Tim Long ·
· 322 replies · 10,924+ views ·
· WorldNetDaily.com ·
· March 10, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern ·
· Joe Kovacs ·

Digital image of 'Ararat Anomaly' has researchers taking closer look A new, high-resolution digital image of what has become known as the "Ararat Anomaly" is reigniting interest in the hunt for Noah's Ark. Satellite image of 'Ararat Anomaly,' taken by DigitalGlobe's QuickBird Satellite in 2003 and now made public for the first time (courtesy: DigitalGlobe) The location of the anomaly on the northwest corner of Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey has been under investigation from afar by ark hunters for years, but it has remained unexplored, with the government of Turkey not granting any scientific expedition permission to explore on...


 How Big Was Noah's Ark

· 03/11/2006 10:25:09 AM PST ·
· Posted by DouglasKC ·
· 245 replies · 7,470+ views ·
· biblestudy.org ·
· Unknown ·
· A. Mendez ·

How BIG was Noah's Ark?How many animals did Noah's Ark hold?"And God said unto Noah, . . . Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this [is the fashion] which thou shalt make it [of]: The length of the ark [shall be] three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt...


 Why Noah's Flood was Local

· 05/29/2006 6:28:25 AM PDT ·
· Posted by truthfinder9 ·
· 253 replies · 2,876+ views ·
· ·

I often hear skeptics point to the belief in the global flood as a reason to not believe Christianity. I also see "Christian" creationist groups condem other Christians who believe the local flood is the literal interpretation. It's time we start telling "Christian" groups like ICR and AIG to stop turning people away from the Bible and tell them to stop their childish, immature attacks on other Christians (AIG recently refused to be subject to review, now there's the making of a cult!). And it's time for Christians to stop blindly believing everything they are told, just because it comes...


 Noah's Ark, Pieces Intact, Found

· 06/15/2006 7:56:07 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Michael_Michaelangelo ·
· 160 replies · 10,767+ views ·
· Koenig's International News ·
· 6/14/06 ·
· Bill Wilson ·

Wash -- June 14 -- KIN -- On June 5th, Bible Historian and explorer Bob Cornuke led an expedition of 15 geologists, historians, archeologists, scientists and attorneys on an exhausting mission 13,300 feet above sea level to locate and document the tremendous sections of what is thought to be Noah's Ark located in the Ararat mountain range six hours North of Tehran, Iran. It had been essentially buried beneath the preservation of glaciers until last year when Iran recorded the hottest year on record which melted some of the snowcap revealing 450 by 75-foot footprint of the "object." Noah's Ark was claimed to be found in...


 Noah's Ark? For Real

· 06/30/2006 6:50:20 AM PDT ·
· Posted by markedmannerf ·
· 38 replies · 835+ views ·
· World View Weekend ·
· June 16 2006 ·
· Brannon S. Howse ·

How many times have you yawned at the claim "Noah's Ark Has Been Discovered"? Right, you say, and Elvis has been sighted again, too. People who hoped to find the famous vessel and the legendary voice have been pretty much in the same boat (so to speak) -- No proof. Until today. Led by explorer, adventurer, and featured Worldview Weekend speaker Dr. Bob Cornuke, a fourteen man crew returned this week from Iran bearing stunning evidence that theirs is the long-anticipated even coveted discovery of the remains of Noah's Ark. Bob's team consisted of a Who's Who of business, law, and ministry...


 Team believes it found Noah's Ark (In Iran)

· 06/30/2006 8:26:43 AM PDT ·
· Posted by DannyTN ·
· 214 replies · 5,827+ views ·
· WorldNetDaily.com ·
· 6/30/06 ·
· WorldNetDaily ·

A 14-man crew that included evangelical apologist Josh McDowell says it returned from a trek to a mountain in Iran with possible evidence of the remains of Noah's Ark. The group, led by explorer Bob Cornuke, found an unusual object perched on a slope 13,120 feet above sea level. Cornuke, president of the archeological Base Institute and a veteran of nearly 30 expeditions in search of Bible artifacts and locations, said he is cautiously,...


 Noah's Ark Discovered in Iran?

· 07/07/2006 10:05:17 PM PDT ·
· Posted by freedom44 ·
· 385 replies · 9,038+ views ·
· National Geographic ·
· 7/7/06 ·
· Kate Ravilious ·

High in the mountains of northwestern Iran, a Christian archaeology expedition has discovered a rock formation that its members say resembles the fabled Noah's ark. The team discovered the prominent boat-shaped rocks at just over 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) on Mount Suleiman in Iran's Elburz mountain range. "It looks uncannily like wood," said Robert Cornuke, president of the Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute (BASE), the Palmer Lake, Colorado-based group that launched the expedition. Photos taken by BASE members show a prow-shaped rock outcrop, which the team says resembles petrified wood, emerging from a ridge. "We have had [cut] thin...


 Flood of claims for 'Noah's Ark'

· 07/17/2006 9:45:55 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SirLinksalot ·
· 44 replies · 1,715+ views ·
· WorldNetdaily.Com ·
· 07/16/2006 ·
· Joe Kovacs ·

Legendary vessel of Genesis story goes from nowhere to everywhere -- After centuries of scouring the Earth for Noah's Ark, claims are now flooding in that the legendary vessel of the Bible has been found. Last month, headlines screamed that a Texas team of archaelogists believed they had possibly located the biblical boat in Iran. But hang on to the "Hallelujah!" chorus a little longer. There are numerous claims about the final resting place, from Ararat to Armenia. With modern...


 Noah's Ark Discovered ... Again and Again

· 09/05/2006 10:47:39 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Central Scrutiniser ·
· 249 replies · 4,626+ views ·
· Skeptical Inquirer ·
· 9-5-06 ·
· Benjamin Radford ·

In this world there are things that seem on the verge of being discovered every so often, yet never quite materialize. The "Lost City" of Atlantis, for example, has been "found" at least a half dozen times. One researcher is pretty sure it is in Bolivia; another says it is Antarctica; a third claims that Bimini beachrock may be from the lost civilization. So it is with Noah's Ark. The difference is, of course, that the implications of Noah's Ark actually being found extend far beyond archaeology. The weight of all the paired animals in the world is nothing compared...


 Purported Sightings Of Noah's Ark

· 07/13/2007 6:50:08 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Fennie ·
· 9 replies · 751+ views ·
· Planet Preterist ·

Details of the reported sightings and finds are described below...


 The Search For Noah's Ark

· 07/19/2007 10:57:32 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Fennie ·
· 71 replies · 3,147+ views ·
· The Parent Company ·
· Kelly L. Segraves ·

The first sightings of the ark in more modern times took place in 1856 when a group of English scientists climbed the mountain to search for the Ark. They asked a young Armenian boy, Haji Yearman, and his father to guide them up the mountain and show them the ark of Noah. Haji Yearman and his father did just that! This upset the scientists, because their object was to prove that the ark was not there. These scientists were atheists, and they tried to burn the ark. They said it would not burn, so they tried to destroy it, but...


 Marine Team Finds Surprising Evidence Supporting A Great Biblical Flood

· 09/10/2007 8:00:41 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Ben Mugged ·
· 25 replies · 1,401+ views ·
· Science Daily ·
· September 10, 2007 ·
· Unattributed ·

Did the great flood of Noah's generation really occur thousands of years ago? Was the Roman city of Caesarea destroyed by an ancient tsunami? Will pollution levels in our deep seas remain forever a mystery? ~snip~ "When I was looking for a partner, I needed to find a team of marine scientists who were leaders in their fields," says Weil, a Swedish environmental philanthropist who helped conceive and fund the idea of giving a free, floating marine research lab to any scientist who needed it. "I didn't want us to be just another Greenpeace group of environmental activists. My dream...


 Did A Comet Cause The Great Flood?

· 11/21/2007 2:17:23 PM PST ·
· Posted by blam ·
· 119 replies · 679+ views ·
· Discover Magazine ·
· 11-15-2007 ·
· Scott Carney ·

Did a Comet Cause the Great Flood?The universal human myth may be the first example of disaster reporting. by Scott Carney11-15-2007 The Fenambosy chevrons at the tip of Madagascar. Image courtesy of Dallas Abbott The serpent's tails coil together menacingly. A horn juts sharply from its head. The creature looks as if it might be swimming through a sea of stars. Or is it making its way up a sheer basalt cliff? For Bruce Masse, an environmental archaeologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, there is no confusion as he looks at this ancient petroglyph, scratched into a rock by a...


 Modern Claims To Have Seen The Ark Of Noah

· 12/30/2007 6:28:05 AM PST ·
· Posted by Fennie ·
· 33 replies · 269+ views ·
· origins.swau.edu ·
· Lee Spencer and Jean Luc Lienard ·

The story of Haji Yearam is the first known to us where a person claims to have seen the ark himself. He was born in 1832 in Armenia, moved at sometime to Oakland, California, where he lived until he died in 1920. "When Haji was a large boy, but not yet a man fully grown, there came to his home some strangers. If I remember correctly there were three vile men who did not believe the Bible and did not believe in the existence of a personal God. They were scientists and evolutionists. They were on this expedition specifically to...


 Noah's Ark Flood Spurred European Farming

· 01/24/2008 3:04:09 PM PST ·
· Posted by blam ·
· 33 replies · 114+ views ·
· Canada West ·
· Randy Boswell ·

Ancient Canadian flood cascaded changes across Europe -- A British scientist has found evidence linking the catastrophic collapse of a glacial ice dam in Canada more than 8,000 years ago and the rapid spread of agriculture across Europe around the same time. The dramatic discharge of freshwater from prehistoric Lake Agassiz -- which covered much of Central Canada at the end of the last ice age -- has long been blamed for altering global climate patterns and raising sea levels around the world by at...


 Noah's Ark nestled on Mount Ararat

· 02/17/2008 5:05:48 PM PST ·
· Posted by 2ndDivisionVet ·
· 281 replies · 1,245+ views ·
· The Peninsula ·
· January 19, 2008 ·
· Satish Kanady ·

Dogubayazit (Turkey's Iran-Armenian Border) -- For the first time in the seven decade-long history of the search for the legendary Noah's Ark, a Turkish-Hong Kong exploration team on Tuesday came out with "material evidence", to prove that the Ark was nestled on Mount Ararat, Turkey's highest mountain peak bordering Iran and Armenia. A panel of experts, comprising Turkish authorities, veteran mountaineers, archaeologists, geologists and members of Hong Kong-based Noah's Ark Ministries International, also displayed an almost one-metre-long peice of petrified wood before the media and specially invited international experts. The experts claimed it to be a part of a long...


 Noah's Ark -- Fact Not Fiction

· 08/22/2008 9:59:31 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Fennie ·
· 81 replies · 1,686+ views ·
· rsanoa.home.comcast.net ·
· Ray Anderson ·

In 1943 during WW2, an army Sgt., Ed Davis, was working in Iran near the Turkish border, in charge of locals hired by our army to build a road through Iran to the Soviet border, which would carry supplies to the Soviets instead of flying them in. In short, Ed did a tremendous favor for a little Kurdish village near Ararat. His workers were mostly Kurds and the chief of the village came to Ed and asked if he would like to see Noah's Ark. He said the summer on the mountain had been hottest in many years and the...


 Noah's ark booth won't be a part of Lincoln event

· 10/20/2008 8:28:26 AM PDT ·
· Posted by stan_sipple ·
· 15 replies · 356+ views ·
· Individual.com ·
· 10-18-2008 ·
· Christopher Burbach ·

In the latest flap over religion in public places, a Lincoln restaurateur and Christian church have decided to pull their Noah's ark booth out of the Lincoln Children's Zoo's annual "Boo at the Zoo" trick-or-treating event. The reason? A new zoo diversity policy forbade Bible verses on the booth's pizza coupons, and the restaurant owner and church leaders did not want to go along with that ruling. The owner of the daVinci's restaurant chain, Kelly Knudson, said he and First Covenant Evangelical Church leaders decided to pull out despite a 15-year history of participating in the event. For all those...


 Speciation and the Animals on the Ark

· 04/15/2009 8:21:59 PM PDT ·
· Posted by GodGunsGuts ·
· 25 replies · 758+ views ·
· ICR ·
· April 2009 ·
· Daniel Criswell, Ph.D. ·

Speciation and the Animals on the Ark by Daniel Criswell, Ph.D.* Many people who use biological data to support an old-earth position believe that the appearance of millions of animal species does not support a young earth interpretation of creation. Nor do they think that a recent global Flood would support the existence of a great number of animals today if Noah only took two of each kind on the Ark. However, the science of how speciation occurs, and the definition of a species versus the biblical kind, does explain how many variations of the same kind of animal can...


 News to Note: A weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint

· 04/18/2009 11:57:10 AM PDT ·
· Posted by GodGunsGuts ·
· 19 replies · 1,019+ views ·
· AiG ·
· April 18, 2009 ·

Read these stories and much more by clicking the excerpt link below: 1. Wall Street Journal: "Hong Kong Christens an Ark of Biblical Proportions" 2. ScienceNOW: "Our Ancestors Were No Swingers" 3. National Geographic News: "First Tool Users Were Sea Scorpions?" 4. LiveScience: "Three Subgroups of Neanderthals Identified" 5. BBC News: "Stem Cells 'Can Treat Diabetes'" (adult stem cells, that is...) 6. New Scientist: "Praying to God Is Like Talking to a Friend" And much much more at...


 Forbidden Arkeology: "The Riddle Of Ararat"

· 06/13/2009 3:58:37 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Fennie ·
· 50 replies · 3,279+ views ·
· Fortean Times ·
· By Robin Simmons ·

There's a well-known account of ten year old Georgie Hagopian, who saw Noah's Ark while climbing Ararat with his uncle in 1904. The date isn't precise but this was around the time my grandfather was in the region and heard convincing stories of the Ark, preserved in ice and snow, still occasionally visible. My grandfather died in 1980, aged 106. As a boy, I listened to his adventures as a doctor in Eastern Turkey and Russia between 1904 and 1910. He worked in the very shadow of Greater Ararat -- the legendary Biblical landing place of Noah's ship. My grandfather...


 Claudio Schranz, The Guide Who Climbed The Mountain And Found A Girder Of The Ark Of Noah

· 06/21/2009 6:10:51 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Fennie ·
· 21 replies · 1,832+ views ·
· mmmgroup.altervista.org ·

The girder comes out from the glacier of Mount Ararat, at an altitude of 4200 meters. It's visible to the naked eye and the Alpine guide Claudio Schranz of Macugnaga has no more doubts: it's a piece of the Noah's Ark. He saw and photographed it at a distance of five meters. It's the morning of December, 2nd, Schranz is an Alpinist and he's 51 years old, he has hundredths of expeditions in all the world to his credits.


 Wooden Beam Of Noah's Ark On Mount Ararat

· 06/22/2009 7:52:45 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Fennie ·
· 122 replies · 6,197+ views ·
· YouTube ·
· 2002 ·

On the 2nd December 2002 Claudio Schranz of our group and alpine guide has been able to film clearly a beam of Noah's Ark protruding out of the ice on Mount Ararat. It was found at 4000m between the beginning of the Parrot glacier.


 Noah's Ark Found?

· 06/24/2009 8:01:37 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Fennie ·
· 44 replies · 2,914+ views ·
· YouTube ·

Many believe that Mount Ararat in Turkey hold the remains of Noah's Ark.


 Noah's Ark On Mount Ararat

· 06/25/2009 6:06:17 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Fennie ·
· 10 replies · 1,721+ views ·
· YouTube ·

Pictures of a piece of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat (meaning: sacred land or high land), eastern Turkey or former western Armenia, because Noah's Ark is in pieces!


 Noahs Ark On Ararat On The Kurdistan Armenian Boarder

· 06/26/2009 3:44:07 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Fennie ·
· 17 replies · 1,539+ views ·
· YouTube ·

edited the best parts


 Virginia Man To Search For Noah's Ark In Turkey

· 06/28/2009 5:17:15 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Fennie ·
· 46 replies · 2,186+ views ·
· FOX News ·
· February 2, 2009 ·
· Associated Press ·

Saddened by the wickedness of man, God directs the righteous Noah to build an ark for his family and two of each species of animal. Together, they ride the ark through 40 days and 40 nights of torrential rains that God unleashes upon the Earth. And when the waters subside, Noah and the animals return to land. "That seems almost like a fairy story," said archaeologist Randall Price, who is director of Liberty University's new Center for Judaic Studies. "But we believe it was an actual event." This summer Price, 57, plans to continue on a journey to prove just...


 T. Rex Cousin Evolved 60 Million Years Too Early

· 09/29/2009 10:10:39 AM PDT ·
· Posted by GodGunsGuts ·
· 45 replies · 2,033+ views ·
· ICR News ·
· September 29, 2009 ·
· Brian Thomas, M.S. ·

The most popular dinosaur is probably Tyrannosaurus rex, a Latin term that loosely translates as "king lizard." Based on evolutionary assumptions, scientists have long held that these dinosaurs lived for "only" 3 million years, approximately 68 to 65 million years ago. A fossil looking remarkably like a small version of T. rex, however, has been located in a much lower rock layer.[1] Using the evolutionary dates assigned to the relevant strata, this adds 60 million years to the T. rex timeline. If the evolutionary interpretation was this wrong about one creature, can it be trusted on the rest of the...


 Man builds working replica of Noah's Ark (exact scale given in Bible)

· 10/18/2009 11:16:37 AM PDT ·
· Posted by NYer ·
· 72 replies · 4,045+ views ·
· Spirit Daily ·
· October 17, 2009 ·

This is amazing. The wood alone would have cost him a fortune. Man builds working replica of Noah's Ark (exact scale given in Bible) In Schagen , NetherlandsThe massive central door in the side of Noah's Ark was opened to the first crowd of curious townsfolk to behold the wonder. Of course, it's only a replica of the biblical Ark , built by Dutch creationist, Johan Huibers, as a testament to his faith in the literal truth of the Bible.The ark is 150 cubits long, 30 cubits high an d 20 cubits wide. That's two-thirds the length of a...


 Evolutionists retreating from the arena of science

· 12/03/2009 8:35:52 AM PST ·
· Posted by GodGunsGuts ·
· 371 replies · 4,852+ views ·
· CMI ·
· December 1, 2009 ·
· Dave Woetzel ·

Evolutionists retreating from the arena of science --snip-- Today, the Darwinian scientific consensus persists within almost every large university and governmental institution. But around the middle of the 20th century an interesting new trend emerged and has since become increasingly established. Evolutionary theorists have been forced, step by step, to steadily retreat from the evidence in the field. Some of the evidences mentioned earlier in this article were demonstrated to be frauds and hoaxes. Other discoveries have been a blow to the straightforward expectations and predictions of evolutionists. Increasingly, they have been forced to tack ad hoc mechanisms onto Darwin's...


 Relic reveals Noah's ark was circular

· 01/02/2010 11:48:34 AM PST ·
· Posted by Free ThinkerNY ·
· 54 replies · 2,668+ views ·
· guardian.co.uk ·
· Jan. 1, 2010 ·
· Maev Kennedy ·

That they processed aboard the enormous floating wildlife collection two-by-two is well known. Less familiar, however, is the possibility that the animals Noah shepherded on to his ark then went round and round inside. According to newly translated instructions inscribed in ancient Babylonian on a clay tablet telling the story of the ark, the vessel that saved one virtuous man, his family and the animals from god's watery wrath was not the pointy-prowed craft of popular imagination but rather a giant circular reed raft. The now battered tablet, aged about 3,700 years, was found somewhere in the Middle East by...


 'Noah's Ark' discovery on Turkish mountain

· 04/26/2010 9:01:21 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Free ThinkerNY ·
· 93 replies · 2,424+ views ·
· AFP ·
· April 27, 2010 ·

A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers said Monday they believe they may have found Noah's Ark -- 4000m up a mountain in Turkey. The team say they recovered wooden specimens from a structure on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey that carbon dating proved was 4800 years old, around the same time the ark is said to have been afloat. "It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's Ark but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it," Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker and member of the 15-strong team from Noah's Ark Ministries International told...


 Noah's Ark found in Turkey

· 04/27/2010 8:28:30 AM PDT ·
· Posted by evets ·
· 257 replies · 6,670+ views ·
· THE SUN ·
· TODAY ·
· STAFF REPORTER ·

The remains of Noah's Ark have been discovered 13,000ft up a Turkish mountain, it has been claimed. A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say they have found wooden remains on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey. They claim carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old -- around the same time the ark was said to be afloat. Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah's Ark Ministries International research team, said: "It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it." He said the structure contained several compartments,...


 Evangelists claim Noahs Ark Found

· 04/27/2010 9:29:08 AM PDT ·
· Posted by marstegreg ·
· 82 replies · 3,227+ views ·
· World Net Daily ·
· April 27, 2010 ·
· Joe Kovacs ·

This story contains much more information and additional photos than The Sun.


 Video Shows What Researchers Believe to be Remains of Noah's Ark -- Video

· 04/27/2010 9:35:50 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Federalist Patriot ·
· 23 replies · 1,442+ views ·
· Freedom's Lighthouse ·
· April 27, 2010 ·
· Brian ·

Here is video showing Chinese and Turkish Evangelical Christian researchers who are virtually sure they have found the remains of Noah's Ark atop Turkey's Mt. Ararat. The video shows them revealing wooden planks and compartments in the structure. You can hear them knocking on wood. The Bible teaches that at the end of the great worldwide flood, the Ark came to rest on a mountain. A Dutch researcher has confirmed he believes this is Noah's Ark.


 Evangelical Explorers Claim To Have Found Noah's Ark

· 04/28/2010 2:11:07 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Patriot1259 ·
· 20 replies · 506+ views ·
· TheCypressTimes.com ·
· 04/28/2010 ·
· John G. Winder ·

Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah's Ark Ministries International research team that made the discovery on Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey, said: "It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it." According to Genesis 8:4, once the flood waters receded Noah's Ark "came to rest on the mountains of Ararat." That is where the team of Chinese and Turkish Evangelical Christians found what they believe to be the famed Ark. The group says that carbon dating proves the relics found are 4,800 year old which correlates to the time-frame given...


 Pics, Video From Alleged Noah's Ark Find

· 04/27/2010 1:02:13 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Fennie ·
· 63 replies · 3,316+ views ·
· Dakota Voice ·
· April 27, 2010 ·
· By Bob Ellis ·

The Sun, Fox News and others are reporting that a group of Chinese and Turkish Christians claim to have found the remains of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat about 13,000 ft up.


 Has Noah's Ark Been Found on Turkish Mountaintop?

· 04/28/2010 4:56:07 AM PDT ·
· Posted by urroner ·
· 45 replies · 1,031+ views ·
· Fox News ·
· April 27, 2010 ·

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...


 Scientists discover wooden structure believed to be Noah's Ark

· 04/28/2010 5:56:26 AM PDT ·
· Posted by NYer ·
· 61 replies · 1,879+ views ·
· cna ·
· April 27, 2010 ·

A Chinese explorer inside one of the wooden structures on Mt. Ararat. Credit: Noah's Ark Ministries International. -- A Chinese-Turkish exploration team reported on Sunday that they have discovered a wooden structure on the top of Mt. Ararat in Turkey which they believe to be the biblical Noah's Ark.


 Latest Claim of Noah's Ark Discovery Like Others for Now, Experts Say

· 04/29/2010 6:48:14 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SeekAndFind ·
· 22 replies · 499+ views ·
· Christian Post ·
· 04/29/2010 ·
· Eric Young ·

Despite the notable lack of significant evidence, the media and the blogosphere are abuzz over the cries of a team of Chinese and Turkish explorers who claim that the wooden structure they found on Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey is none other than Noah's Ark. Experts in history, archaeology, and bibliology, meanwhile, are making note of the claim but not taking the bait. They say they've heard the cries before and will need a lot more than the confirmation of 4,800-year-old wood to take the claims seriously. "Periodically, there are announcements, almost always by enthusiasts without real background in archaeology,...


 Noah's Ark found in Turkey (VIDEO)

· 04/29/2010 8:37:29 AM PDT ·
· Posted by FreeManWhoCan ·
· 26 replies · 938+ views ·
· YouTube ·

See video


 Chinese explorers stand by claim of Noah's Ark find in Turkey

· 04/30/2010 3:13:27 PM PDT ·
· Posted by FootBall ·
· 35 replies · 573+ views ·
· The Christian Science Monitor ·
· April 30th, 2010 ·
· Stephen Kurczy ·

Chinese explorers stand by claim of Noah's Ark find in Turkey The Hong Kong-based team rebutted skepticism over their claims of finding Noah's Ark in Turkey, though they said further research is needed to prove beyond doubt that they have located the fabled biblical boat.

World War Eleven

 Video: Package №1: Bloody Soviet pages of Katyn massacre published

· 04/28/2010 3:08:43 PM PDT ·
· Posted by kronos77 ·
· 18 replies · 700+ views ·
· YouTube ·

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UkRB3wsj2E&feature=player_embedded

India

 Man claims he ate, drank nothing for 70 years

· 04/29/2010 4:19:30 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Free ThinkerNY ·
· 62 replies · 1,525+ views ·
· couriermail.com.au ·
· April 29, 2010 ·
· staff writers ·

SCIENTISTS are studying an 82-year-old man who claims he has not had any food or drink for 70 years. Prahlad Jani's claims are being put to the test at a hospital in Ahmedabad, where he is being closely monitored and studied by India's Defence Research Development Organisation, which believes he may have a quality which could help save lives, The Telegraph reports. He has so far spent six days without food or water under the strict observation of doctors who say his body is yet to show any signs of hunger or dehydration. Mr Jani is regarded as a "breatharian"...

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Historic medical conference finds Bolivar may have been poisoned (medicinally)

· 04/28/2010 6:07:52 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 14 replies · 275+ views ·
· U of Md Medical Center ·
· Apr 28, 2010 ·
· Unknown ·

Doctors reconsider health and death of 'El Libertador,' general who freed South AmericaCould one of South America's greatest military figures have died from a deadly poison, rather than the tuberculosis assumed at the time of his death in 1830? The mysterious illness and death of Simon Bolivar -- known as "El Libertador" or "The Liberator" -- is the medical mystery in question at this year's Historical Clinicopathological Conference (CPC), sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs (VA) Maryland Health Care System in Baltimore. This conference is devoted to the modern medical diagnosis of disorders...

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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #302 20100501
· Saturday, May 1, 2010 · 82 topics · 2504358 to 2502434 · 749 members ·

 
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Hooray, hooray, it's the first of May! Outdoor, uh, whoops, yeah, anyway, welcome to the 302nd issue. One page that couldn't be posted this week due to copyright complaint (a quick web search will show that the enforcement pattern is really just the result of political bigotry) is this, too interesting to pass up (unusual on the site involved): Polynesian Seafaring to the American Continents. We did have Brighton bypass significance confirmed, a topic about a 40,000 year old occupation site in Tasmania.

Thanks go in alphabetical order to 2ndDivisionVet, aynfan, a_Turk, Ben Mugged, Brett66, blam, Central Scrutiniser, DannyTN, DouglasKC, decimon, Ernest_at_the_Beach, evets, Federalist Patriot, Fennie, FootBall, Free ThinkerNY, FreeManWhoCan, Frenchtown Dan, fightinJAG, freedom44, GodGunsGuts, green team 1999, Integrityrocks, JohnHuang2, kronos77, LOL Clinton Was Impeached, Michael_Michaelangelo, markedmannerf, marstegreg, NYer, Patriot1259, Pokey78, Prince Charles, presidio9, Ready2go, Red Badger, rattrap, SeekAndFind, SirLinksalot, SJackson, sonsofliberty2000, stan_sipple, Tancred, Tim Long, truthfinder9, UnklGene, urroner, wagglebee, and yankeedame for contributing the topics this week. If I've missed anyone, my apologies!

It has been another week filled with good topics, and a mere 17 of them, a bit of a relief from last week's 46. I could have added in all the Noah's Ark topics (over sixty of those, going back years, some of which have already been in the catalog for a while), and might have had I known our count was so light.

[some time passes]

It took so little effort to do the Digest, and I'd already done most of the processing to the Noah's Ark keyword file, so I'm going to include them all, whether or not I've added them to the keyword. Brings up this week's total to a record 82 topics, something like that. :')

My attempt to revive (at least temporarily) the List of Ping Lists has resulted in bupkis, zero response, hence I am again soliciting from all of you any and all information about any and all ping lists which you either are a member of, or operate here on FR.

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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #303
Saturday, May 8, 2010

Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

 Dingo- The World's Oldest Dog

· 05/02/2010 9:09:53 AM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 42 replies · 772+ views ·
· OneIndia ·
· 4/28/2010 ·

A recent study has revealed that Dingo is the world's oldest breed of dog. This dog according to experts is basically a cross between dogs and wolves. Experts have found closest genetic similarity between the dingo and wolves. Dingo's have been discovered to be the close kin of, the rare New Guinea singing dog as they shares similar DNA. Dingos and the singing dogs, even their similar features to other dogs were from other breeds for thousands of years. "This gives us a huge weight of evidence supporting the theory that the dingo is quite distinct from all modern dog...

Australia and the Pacific

 Bird molecules challenge to Moa's Ark theory [LOL!]

· 05/06/2010 5:24:21 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 19 replies · 254+ views ·
· PhysOrg ·
· May 4, 2010 ·
· Provided by Massey University ·

The so-called "Moa's Ark" theory - that New Zealand's animal and plant life has evolved largely untouched over 80 million years since the Gondwana supercontinent broke up - is being challenged by new molecular evidence from native birds. Dr Steve Trewick and Gillian Gibb, from the Institute of Natural Resources, have carried out a review of the molecular phylogenetic evidence for New Zealand's bird life... According to the review of the data, Dr Trewick says we must continue to rethink the way the biota (animal and plant life) developed and recognise that it has changed considerably over time. "Many New...

Neandertal / Neanderthal

 Neanderthals live on in DNA of humans

· 05/06/2010 11:38:16 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Fractal Trader ·
· 59 replies · 1,013+ views ·
· The Guardian ·
· 6 May 2010 ·
· Ian Sample ·

There is a little Neanderthal in nearly all of us, according to scientists who compared the genetic makeup of humans with that of our closest ancient relatives. Most people living outside Africa can trace up to 4% of their DNA to a Neanderthal origin, a consequence of interbreeding between the two groups after the great migration from the contintent. Anthropologists have long speculated that early humans may have mated with Neanderthals, but the latest study provides the strongest evidence so far, suggesting that such encounters took place around 60,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East....


 Scientists prove humans bred with Neanderthals

· 05/06/2010 1:42:51 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Willie Green ·
· 71 replies · 1,327+ views ·
· The Local ·
· Thursday, May 6, 2010 ·

For the first time ever, German scientists have drafted a genome sequence for the Neanderthal and believe their results show that the extinct hominid interbred with humans. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig analysed some four billion base pairs of DNA from Neanderthals -- a species which died out more than 30,000 years ago. Initial analysis of the resulting genome sequence draft show that Neanderthals left traces of themselves in the genomes of some modern humans, the study published in this month's journal "Science" revealed. "The comparison of these two genetic sequences enables us to...


 You're a Neanderthal: Genes say yes -- a little bit

· 05/06/2010 2:33:07 PM PDT ·
· Posted by chessplayer ·
· 28 replies · 517+ views ·
· Yahoo! ·

WASHINGTON -- We have met Neanderthal and he is us -- at least a little. The most detailed look yet at the Neanderthal genome helps answer one of the most debated questions in anthropology: Did Neanderthals and modern humans mate? The answer is yes, there is at least some cave man biology in most of us.


 Signs of Neanderthals Mating With Humans

· 05/06/2010 3:45:02 PM PDT ·
· Posted by antidemoncrat ·
· 59 replies · 1,000+ views ·
· New York Times ·
· 5/6/10 ·
· NICHOLAS WADE ·

Neanderthals mated with some modern humans after all and left their imprint in the human genome, a team of biologists has reported in the first detailed analysis of the Neanderthal genetic sequence.


 Neanderthals, Humans Interbred -- First Solid DNA Evidence --
  Most of us have some Neanderthal genes


· 05/07/2010 12:04:44 PM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 80 replies · 1,542+ views ·
· nationalgeographic ·
· May 6, 2010 ·
· Ker Than ·

The next time you're tempted to call some oaf a Neanderthal, you might want to take a look in the mirror. According to a new DNA study, most humans have a little Neanderthal in them -- at least 1 to 4 percent of a person's genetic makeup. The study uncovered the first solid genetic evidence that "modern" humans -- or Homo sapiens -- interbred with their Neanderthal neighbors, who mysteriously died out about 30,000 years ago. What's more, the Neanderthal-modern human mating apparently took place in the Middle East, shortly after modern humans had left Africa, not in Europe -- as has long been suspected. "We can now...

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 The Search for Genes Leads to Unexpected Places

· 04/29/2010 9:35:42 PM PDT ·
· Posted by neverdem ·
· 14 replies · 523+ views ·
· NY Times ·
· April 26, 2010 ·
· CARL ZIMMER ·

Edward M. Marcotte is looking for drugs that can kill tumors by stopping blood vessel growth, and he and his colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin recently found some good targets -- five human genes that are essential for that growth. Now they're hunting for drugs that can stop those genes from working. Strangely, though, Dr. Marcotte did not discover the new genes in the human genome, nor in lab mice or even fruit flies. He and his colleagues found the genes in yeast. "On the face of it, it's just crazy," Dr. Marcotte said. After all, these...

Prehistory and Origins

 Peptides may hold 'missing link' to life

· 05/06/2010 11:59:58 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 16 replies · 328+ views ·
· Emory University ·
· Apr 27, 2010 ·
· Unknown ·

Emory scientists have discovered that simple peptides can organize into bi-layer membranes. The finding suggests a "missing link" between the pre-biotic Earth's chemical inventory and the organizational scaffolding essential to life. "We've shown that peptides can form the kind of membranes needed to create long-range order," says chemistry graduate student Seth Childers, lead author of the paper recently published by the German Chemical Society's Angewandte Chemie. "What's also interesting is that these peptide membranes may have the potential to function in a complex way, like a protein." In addition to providing clues to the origins of life, the findings...

Longer Perspectives

 What Do You Think Were The Top Ten Scientific Discoveries?

· 05/05/2010 2:39:11 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Niuhuru ·
· 208 replies · 1,860+ views ·
· Mind of Niuhuru ·
· May 5 2010 ·
· Niuhuru ·

What do my fellow FReepers think were the top ten scientific discoveries to date?

Faith and Philosophy

 Is the Biblical Flood Account a Modified Copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh?

· 04/08/2010 8:15:01 PM PDT ·
· Posted by truthfinder9 ·
· 83 replies · 1,276+ views ·
· God and Science ·

Skeptics claim that the flood narrative of Genesis1 is a rewritten version of an original myth, The Epic of Gilgamesh, from the Enuma Elish produced by the Sumerians. The flood of the Epic of Gilgamesh is contained on Tablet XI2 of twelve large stone tablets that date to around 650 B.C. These tablets are obviously not originals, since fragments of the flood story have been found on tablets that date to 2,000 B.C. It is likely that the story itself originated much before that, since the Sumerian cuneiform writing has been estimated to go as far back as 3,300 B.C.The...



 Noah's Ark PaleoBabble Update (hoax?)

· 05/02/2010 11:58:31 AM PDT ·
· Posted by mnehring ·
· 14 replies · 820+ views ·
· PaleoBabble ·

..Now the sad part. I also got an email today from one of Randall Price's students. The email contains a message from Dr. Price about this expedition. (Dr. Price, as some of you may recall, has been doing a lot of searching for the ark lately.) Here is an excerpt from his message: 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...


 Excursion continues to find Noah's Ark in Turkey

· 05/05/2010 6:02:54 PM PDT ·
· Posted by FootBall ·
· 21 replies · 866+ views ·
· Lynchburg VA News and Advance ·
· December 28, 2009 ·
· Dave Thompson ·

(Picture) Randall Price works at the site of his expedition in Turkey If Noah's Ark has been sitting on a mountain somewhere in the Middle East for a few millennia, a few more months of waiting are a small price to pay, at least for Randall Price. Price, who heads Liberty University's Center For Judaic Studies, talked in January about his planned two-season expedition into Turkey, with the hopes of finding the Biblical artifact. He arrived in Turkey over the summer. But Price said since then, he's faced pressure from a political group in Turkey that is forcing him...


 Special: The American Soldier And The Ark Of Noah

· 05/07/2010 9:03:42 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Fennie ·
· 7 replies · 1,113+ views ·
· CEA ·

Ed Davis viewed Noah's Ark sometime in July, 1943. The Ark was located on the northeastern side of Mount Ararat in the Kars province. It was in two parts -- the smaller section some one-half mile from the main structure. Somewhere between 100 and 200 feet of the Ark was uncovered at this time. All the wood within and without the Ark is petrified. Wooden pegs, not metal spikes, were used in its construction and the larger beams have splices. The Ark is pitched for preservation and a watertight seal. The one large door was still intact and was in...

Religion of Peace

 America's Barbaric History

· 04/28/2010 11:12:50 AM PDT ·
· Posted by bs9021 ·
· 25 replies · 653+ views ·
· Accuracy in Academia ·
· April 28, 2010 ·
· Malcolm A. Kline ·

Those politicians and pedagogues who agitate for slavery reparations in the United States should consider what would happen if the descendants of slaves around the world sought the same from the countries in which their ancestors were enslaved. "Just as Europeans enslaved Africans, North Africans enslaved Europeans -- more Europeans than there were Africans enslaved in the United States and in the 13 colonies from which it was formed," economist Thomas Sowell writes. "The treatment of white galley slaves was even worse than the treatment of black slaves picking cotton." "But there are...

Dark Ages

 Ban for indecency is new twist in tale of One Thousand and One Nights

· 05/06/2010 8:57:01 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Saije ·
· 6 replies · 187+ views ·
· London Times ·
· 5/7/2010 ·
· Staff ·

The epic tale of One Thousand and One Nights may soon be banned in Egypt if a group of concerned citizens gets its way. A little-known organisation calling itself Lawyers without Restrictions recently filed a lawsuit calling for the iconic story collection to be confiscated and its publishers imprisoned. The publishers, in this case, would be the Egyptian Government's own General Authority of Culture. Efforts to contact Lawyers without Restrictions for comment were unsuccessful. According to local press reports, the group's lawsuit cites Article 178 of the Egyptian criminal code, which bans publication of material deemed "offensive to public decency"....

Egypt

 Egyptian blue found in Romanesque altarpiece (ESPAÑA)

· 05/05/2010 11:14:00 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 19 replies · 442+ views ·
· FECYT ·
· May 5, 2010 ·
· Unknown ·

A team of researchers from the University of Barcelona (UB) has discovered remains of Egyptian blue in a Romanesque altarpiece in the church of Sant Pere de Terrassa (Barcelona). This blue pigment was used from the days of ancient Egypt until the end of the Roman Empire, but was not made after this time. So how could it turn up in a 12th Century church? Egyptian blue or Pompeian blue was a pigment frequently used by the ancient Egyptians and Romans to decorate objects and murals. Following the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD), this pigment fell out...

Epigraphy and Language

 The Fate of the Library of Alexandria

· 05/02/2010 3:17:15 PM PDT ·
· Posted by neverdem ·
· 80 replies · 2,046+ views ·
· American Thinker ·
· May 02, 2010 ·
· John O'Neill ·

The great Library of Alexandria, established by Ptolemy II (circa 280 BC), has come to symbolize the receptacle of knowledge of Classical civilization. This great repository was barbarously razed in the Middle Ages. At its height, the Library contained an estimated forty thousand volumes on a wide variety of topics. It held works on astronomy, mathematics, physics, medicine, and philosophy -- many of which were copied from the hieroglyphic and cuneiform texts of the Egyptians and Babylonians. It also stored histories of all the countries of the known world: histories of Egypt, of Babylonia, of Persia, of the lands of...

Middle Ages and Renaissance

 Now there's a website for Renaissance Faires.

· 05/06/2010 4:11:48 PM PDT ·
· Posted by 2ndDivisionVet ·
· 21 replies · 337+ views ·
· Rennaisance Faires Magazine ·

For those of you who enjoy them. Interesting articles, history, details of fairs & festivals, etc...

British Isles

 Medieval African Found Buried in England

· 05/04/2010 4:53:49 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 46 replies · 619+ views ·
· Discovery News ·
· Monday, May 3, 2010 ·
· Raphael G. Satter, AP ·

Forensics experts at the University of Dundee Scotland say that the bones most likely belonged to a man from modern-day Tunisia who spent about a decade living in England before he died... The man -- who appears to have died of a spinal abscess -- was identified as African by studying his skeleton and the historical record of the friary where he was buried.

China

 Xinjiang discovery provides intriguing DNA link

· 05/01/2010 4:55:38 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Palter ·
· 11 replies · 418+ views ·
· English.news.cn ·
· 28 April 2010 ·
· Mu Xuequan ·

The DNA of some 4,000 year-old bodies unearthed five years ago in Xinjiang, in northwest China, provides scientific evidence of early intermingling between people of European and Asian origin. Zhou Hui, a professor of life science and her team discovered that some of the earliest inhabitants of the Tarim Basin in the Taklamakan Desert were of European and Siberian descent. The basin, where hundreds of well-preserved mummies have been found since the 1980s, has attracted great attention from scientists worldwide. Professor Victor Mair of Pennsylvania University claimed in 2006, "From around 1800 B.C. the earliest mummies in the Tarim Basin...


 Mystery as century-old Swiss watch discovered in ancient tomb sealed for 400 years

· 05/06/2010 9:41:03 PM PDT ·
· Posted by The Magical Mischief Tour ·
· 126 replies · 2,851+ views ·
· Daily Mail UK ·
· 05/06/2010 ·
· Daily Mail UK ·

Archaeologists are stumped after finding a 100-year-old Swiss watch in an ancient tomb that was sealed more than 400 years ago. They believed they were the first to visit the Ming dynasty grave in Shangsi, southern China, since its occupant's funeral. But inside they uncovered a miniature watch in the shape of a ring marked 'Swiss' that is thought to be just a century old.

The Minoans

 Fortifications on Gournia Debunk Myth of Peaceful Minoan Society

· 05/04/2010 5:03:47 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 28 replies · 342+ views ·
· Heritage Key ·
· Tuesday, May 4, 2010 ·
· Owen Jarus ·

A team of archaeologists, led by Professor Vance Watrous and Matt Buell of the University at Buffalo, have discovered a fortification system at the Minoan town of Gournia. The discovery rebukes the popular myth that the Minoans were a peaceful society with no need for defensive structures. That idea arose from work done in the early 20th century by Sir Arthur Evans... The town was originally excavated from 1901-1904 by Harriet Boyd Hawes, a pioneering women who was among the first to excavate a Minoan settlement. Located on the north coast, Gournia was in use during the "neo-palatial" period (ca....

Climate

 Postmodernism: A Unified Theory of All the Trouble in the World

· 05/02/2010 1:50:50 PM PDT ·
· Posted by neverdem ·
· 19 replies · 564+ views ·
· American Thinker ·
· May 02, 2010 ·
· M.J. Braun ·

Like the "fatal error" message that pops up unexpectedly on a computer, the phrase itself is menacing: "post-normal science." I ran across the phrase as I was reading Climate Change and the Death of Science. The author's explanation did nothing to allay my anxiety. Once there was modern science, which was hard work; now we have postmodern science, where the quest for real, absolute truth is outdated, and "science" is a wax nose that can be twisted in any direction to underpin the latest lying narrative in the pursuit of power. Except they didn't call it 'postmodern' science because then...


 The Medieval Warm Period in Greenland

· 05/03/2010 12:45:02 PM PDT ·
· Posted by neverdem ·
· 15 replies · 858+ views ·
· co2science.org ·
· 21 April 2010 ·
· NA ·

Reference Vinther, B.M., Jones, P.D., Briffa, K.R., Clausen, H.B., Andersen, K.K., Dahl-Jensen, D. and Johnsen, S.J. 2010. Climatic signals in multiple highly resolved stable isotope records from Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 522-538. Background The authors introduce the report of their new study by writing that "during the past 10 years studies of seasonal ice core records from the Greenland ice sheet have indicated, that in order to gain a firm understanding of the relationships between Greenland and climatic conditions in the North Atlantic region, it is important to have not only annually resolved, but seasonally resolved ice...

Mammoth, How We Love Ya

 Scientists use 'Jurassic Park' experiment
  to try to bring woolly mammoth back from the dead


· 05/03/2010 10:18:11 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Free ThinkerNY ·
· 60 replies · 930+ views ·
· dailymail.co.uk ·
· May 2, 2010 ·
· David Derbyshire ·

Woolly mammoths could one day walk the Earth again, it seems. In an extraordinary Jurassic Park- style experiment, DNA from a frozen specimen of the extinct giant was used to reproduce their blood. And it revealed that the beasts used more than their distinctive shaggy coats to keep warm in harsh Arctic conditions 25,000 years ago - they had antifreeze in their veins. The scientists believe the genetic adaptation technique could be used to resurrect body parts and proteins from other extinct animals. Researcher Prof Kevin Campbell-of the University of Manitoba, Canada, said: 'The molecules are no different than going...


 Saranac golf course the site of mammoth excavation [Michigan]

· 05/04/2010 4:30:42 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 13 replies · 315+ views ·
· WZZM 13 ·
· 5/3/2010 ·

Michigan scientists are trying to piece together a major find that dates back 11-thousand years ago. The elephant-like animal, known as a mammoth, was discovered at a golf course along Morrison Lake, near Saranac. "I told them, for my luck, it was probably a rock and I don't want to waste your time", says Dixie Riley, owner of Morrison Lake Country Club. That's what she told scientists at the University of Michigan. The call turned out to be well worth their time. "They found a tusk, vertebrae and determined it was a 6-ton mammoth." It all started in August of...

Biology and Cryptobiology

 "River Monsters' tells the reel story of huge freshwater fish

· 05/02/2010 3:19:35 PM PDT ·
· Posted by smokingfrog ·
· 35 replies · 1,480+ views ·
· KansasCity.com ·
· 4-30-10 ·
· Luaine Lee ·

Jeremy Wade is full of fish stories, only he's not exaggerating when he describes his latest catch. Wade is a big-game angler, constantly in search of freshwater monsters that make sharks seem as docile as dolphins. The host of Animal Planet's "River Monsters," Wade plies his skill with heavy fishing equipment and a passion, he admits, that borders on obsession. "You start off interested in variety, and then it's always about bigger fish, bigger fish, and I became fairly obsessive I think in my late teens and early 20s," he says. The British-born Wade began fishing for carp. "There was...

The Civil War

 Abe Lincoln returns to Woonsocket

· 05/03/2010 5:56:39 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Willie Green ·
· 28 replies · 320+ views ·
· Woonsocket Call ·
· May 2, 2010 ·
· DONNA KENNY KIRWAN ·

PAWTUCKET -- It was 150 years ago this month that then-presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln made a train journey from Providence to Woonsocket where he delivered one of his most significant speeches to a crowd of 1,500. On May 15, the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council is making it possible to experience some of the excitement of that historic campaign visit with a special event. The 150th Abraham Lincoln Train Tour will recreate this journey that was made in 1860 by America's 16th president. Participants will ride on an excursion car on the Providence & Worcester Railroad, the same railway line that...


 Abraham Lincoln's 10 You Cannots

· 05/02/2010 5:05:04 PM PDT ·
· Posted by florm15 ·
· 28 replies · 806+ views ·
· Blog For People Who Love America ·

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift." "You cannot help small men by tearing down big men." "You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong." "You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer." "You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich." "You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income." "You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred." "You cannot establish security on borrowed money." "You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence." "You cannot help men permanently by doing for...

Early America

 Vt. towns finally settle colonial map boundaries

· 04/25/2010 12:24:27 PM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 5 replies · 571+ views ·
· hosted ·
· Apr 25 ·
· WILSON RING ·

ST. GEORGE, Vt. (AP) -- A Colonial-era boundary dispute between two Vermont towns that were never exactly sure where one ended and the other began is finally going to be settled. But it was old maps, not GPS or Google Earth, that ultimately found the common ground for the towns of St. George and neighboring Shelburne. The process has pointed up the art of trying to read the minds of the original surveyors and land granters to establish where the lines were drawn. "It's a matter of 'let's get this defined,'" said Phil Gingraw, chairman of the St. George Select...

The Framers

 Founding Amateurs?

· 05/03/2010 6:15:04 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Pharmboy ·
· 70 replies · 859+ views ·
· NY Times Op-Ed ·
· May 3, 2010 ·
· GORDON S. WOOD ·

THE American public is not pleased with Congress -- one recent poll shows that less than a third of all voters are eager to support their representative in November. "I am not really happy right now with anybody," a woman from Decatur, Ill., recently told a Washington Post reporter. As she considered the prospect of a government composed of fledgling lawmakers, she noted: "When the country was founded, those guys were all pretty new at it. How bad could it be?" Actually, our founders were not all that new at it: the men who led the revolution against the British...

The General

 This Day in History May 5 1776 The writings of George Washington

· 05/05/2010 5:03:44 PM PDT ·
· Posted by mdittmar ·
· 4 replies · 130+ views ·
· May 5.1776 ·
· George Washington ·

*To THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS New York, May 5, 1776. Sir: I have so often, and so fully communicated my want of Arms to Congress, that I should not have given them the trouble of receiving another Letter upon this Subject, at this time, but for the particular application of Colo. Wain of Pensylvania, who has pointed out a method by which he thinks they may be obtain'd. In the hands of the Committee of Safety at Philadelphia, there are, according to Colo. Wain's Acct. not less than two or three thousand stand of Arms for Provincial use;...

The Revolution

 The Last Naval Battle of the American Revolution

· 03/10/2007 5:54:23 PM PST ·
· Posted by NonValueAdded ·
· 24 replies · 3,250+ views ·
· FreeRepublic.com ·
· March 10, 2007 ·
· NonValueAdded ·

A monument and historical marker were dedicated today at Port Canaveral, Florida, commemorating The Last Naval Battle of the American Revolution From the historical marker, dedicated on March 10, 2007: The last naval battle of the American Revolutionary War took place off the coast of Cape Canaveral on March 10, 1783. The fight began when three British ships sighted two Continental Navy ships, the Alliance commanded by Captain John Barry and the Duc De Lauzun commanded by Captain John Green sailing northward along the coast of Florida. The Alliance, a 36-gun frigate, and the Duc De Lauzun, a 20-gun ship,...

The Admiral

 John Paul Jones President Command Military with Pen Only
  -- He May Cut the Throats of Citizens


· 04/21/2010 6:58:01 PM PDT ·
· Posted by bushpilot1 ·
· 27 replies · 1,209+ views ·
· Life and character of the Chevalier JPJ ·
· unknown ·
· John Henry Sherburne ·

"I am glad that the new constitution will be, as you tell me, adopted by the nine states. I hope, however they will alter some parts of it; and particularly that they will divest the President of all military rank and command; for though General Washington might be safely trusted with such tempting power as chief command of fleet and army, yet depend on it, in some other hands it could not fail to overset the liberties of America. The President should be only the first civil Magistrate, let him command the military with the pen; but deprive him of...


 Experts seek to find famous wreck [Bonhomme Richard!]

· 06/22/2006 6:38:09 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Pharmboy ·
· 29 replies · 918+ views ·
· BBC ·
· 6-22-04 ·
· Anon ·

The Bonhomme Richard sank in about 180ft of water Experts have expressed confidence that they can find the sunken wreck of the ship made famous by legendary Solway born sailor John Paul Jones next month. The Bonhomme Richard went down in 1779 off Flamborough Head in East Yorkshire as Jones famously said: "Surrender - I have not yet begun to fight." Several bids have been made to recover the ship captained by a man credited as the founding father of the US Navy. Now underwater archaeology experts will use hi-tech methods to try to find it. Dr Robert Neyland,...


 Two U.S. Navy Vessels Named Flagships for USS Bon Homme Richard Expedition

· 03/14/2006 5:07:14 PM PST ·
· Posted by SandRat ·
· 20 replies · 763+ views ·
· Navy NewsStand ·
· Lt. j.g. Emelia Spencer ·

GROTON, Conn. (NNS) -- The multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) were named honorary flagships March 13 for the upcoming search for the remains of the original Bonhomme Richard, which sank in the North Sea in 1779. The search project revolves around one of the most memorable battles of the American Revolution, where John Paul Jones, an American naval hero, uttered his legendary words, "I have not yet begun to fight!" "It's entirely appropriate that these front-line warships are honorary flagships of the expedition, as they are representative...


 NOAA Considers Grant to Aid Search for John Paul Jones' Flagship

· 02/10/2006 7:23:09 PM PST ·
· Posted by indcons ·
· 15 replies · 438+ views ·
· Naval Historical Center ·
· 2/8/2006 ·
· Ann Onymous ·

The Naval Historical Center's (NHC) search for Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones' ship Bonhomme Richard received further support in early February, when it was recommended for funding through the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Ocean Exploration's competitive grant process. The NHC and Ocean Technology Foundation (OTF) plan to launch a search for Bonhomme Richard off the coast of England in July. "You cannot find an underwater archaeological site more important to the U.S. Navy than that of John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard," said Dr. Robert...


 NOAA Approves Grant to Aid Search for John Paul Jones' Flagship

· 02/08/2006 4:29:11 PM PST ·
· Posted by SandRat ·
· 4 replies · 426+ views ·
· Navy NewsStand ·
· Feb 8, 2006 ·
· Naval Historical Center ·

GROTON, Conn. (NNS) -- The Naval Historical Center's (NHC) search for Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones' ship Bonhomme Richard received further support in early February, when it was recommended for funding through the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Ocean Exploration's competitive grant process. The NHC and Ocean Technology Foundation (OTF) plan to launch a search for Bonhomme Richard off the coast of England in July. "You cannot find an underwater archaeological site more important to the U.S. Navy than that of John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard," said Dr. Robert Neyland, head of the NHC's...


 The FReeper Foxhole Revisits John Paul Jones - Sept. 23rd, 2005

· 09/22/2005 9:46:04 PM PDT ·
· Posted by snippy_about_it ·
· 55 replies · 2,433+ views ·
· Naval Historical Center ·
· 01/06/2003 5:37:15 AM PST ·

Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel...


 The FReeper Foxhole Remembers John Paul Jones - Jan 6th, 2003

· 01/06/2003 5:37:15 AM PST ·
· Posted by SAMWolf ·
· 94 replies · 2,087+ views ·
· Naval Historical Center ·

U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. We hope to provide an ongoing source of information about issues and problems that are specific to Veterans and resources that are available to Veterans and their families. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel free to address their specific circumstances or whatever issues concern them in an atmosphere of peace, understanding, brotherhood...

Navigation

 Niece of Scots Titanic Violinist Releases Cook Book in His Memory

· 04/30/2010 11:47:03 AM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 11 replies · 331+ views ·
· STV ·
· 30 April 2010 ·

The shock story of the sinking of the luxury cruise liner The Titanic is something that still sends a chill down the spine today, but for the author of a new book based on the tragedy, the story is one that truly strikes a personal note. Yvonne Hume is the great nice of Scottish violinist John Law Hume, who died after the liner struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912. He drowned after continuing to play the violin while the ship sank, as he tried to ease the huge panic onboard. And Yvonne, who has been fascinated by the story...


 Liverpool Museum Shows Lusitania Captain's Pocket Watch

· 04/30/2010 4:05:33 PM PDT ·
· Posted by nickcarraway ·
· 5 replies · 319+ views ·
· Liverpool Echo ·

This is a gold pocket watch that belonged to the captain of the Lusitaniana that survived with him when he was swept off the bridge as the liner sank in 1915. Captain William Turner survived while 1,200 passengers lost their lives when the Cunard liner was destroyed by a torpedo from the German U-20 off the coast of Ireland. He was the centre of controversy after the sinking off Kinsale and he was scapegoated for the disaster by Winston Churchill. Captain Turner was at the centre of criticism because he continued heading towards the Irish Port of Cork despite warnings...

World War Eleven

 Soviet commander admits USSR came close to defeat by Nazis
  (banned Zhukov interview aired)


· 05/05/2010 7:01:27 AM PDT ·
· Posted by TigerLikesRooster ·
· 101 replies · 1,774+ views ·
· Telegraph ·
· 05/05/10 ·

Soviet commander admits USSR came close to defeat by Nazis An interview in which a Soviet commander admitted how close Moscow came to defeat by Germany during the Second World War has been broadcast in Russia for the first time. Published: 11:58AM BST 05 May 2010 The Soviet Union nearly lost the war in 1941 and suffered from poor planning, according to Marshal Georgy Zhukov in the frank television interview that has been banned since it was recorded in 1966. Zhukov, the most decorated general in the history of both Russia and the Soviet Union, admitted that Soviet generals were...


 Corpse who went to war - & saved the Allies!

· 05/04/2010 4:45:47 AM PDT ·
· Posted by iowamark ·
· 17 replies · 610+ views ·
· NY Post ·
· May 2, 2010 ·
· By BEN MACINTYRE ·

JANUARY 1943. In a tiny, tobacco-stained basement room beneath the Admiralty building in London, two men sat puzzling over a conundrum of their own devising: how to create a person from nothing, a man who had never been... The two officers were also responsible for running agents and double agents, espionage and counterespionage, intelligence, fakery and fraud. They passed lies to the enemy that were false and damaging, as well as information that was true but harmless; they ran willing spies, reluctant spies pressed into service and spies who did not exist at all. Now, with the war at its...

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 Band Of Brothers author accused of fabrication
  for Eisenhower biography [Stephen Ambrose]


· 04/25/2010 4:09:15 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Daffynition ·
· 61 replies · 1,279+ views ·
· The Observer ·
· 25 April 2010 ·
· Paul Harris ·

His book Band of Brothers -- which chronicled the exploits of one company of US airborne troops in second world war Europe -- was turned into a highly praised TV series. But now American historian Professor Stephen Ambrose, who was President Dwight D Eisenhower's official biographer and wrote or edited more than a dozen books about him, is embroiled in a posthumous controversy. It is alleged that he invented many meetings he claimed to have had with Eisenhower, and even fabricated entire interviews with him. The revelations have sent shock waves through the scholarly community in the United States. The...

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 New light shed on Kent State killings--Shots fired at Guard, declassified files indicate

· 05/03/2010 6:27:24 PM PDT ·
· Posted by jazusamo ·
· 195 replies · 4,679+ views ·
· The Washington Times ·
· May 4, 2010 ·
· James Rosen ·

Previously undisclosed FBI documents suggest that the Kent State antiwar protests were more meticulously planned than originally thought and that one or more gunshots may have been fired at embattled Ohio National Guardsmen before their killings of four students and woundings of at least nine others on that searing day in May 1970. As the nation marks the 40th anniversary of the Kent State antiwar protests Tuesday, a review of hundreds of previously unpublished investigative reports sheds a new -- and very different -- light on the tragic episode. The upheaval that enveloped the northeastern Ohio campus actually began three...

Catastrophism and Astronomy

 A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire 1905

· 04/29/2010 7:34:31 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Orange1998 ·
· 7 replies · 367+ views ·
· YouTube ·

A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire 1905 Pictures San Francisco's main thoroughfare as seen from the front window of a moving Market Street cable car, before the downtown area was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. This unusual record has been called the first "structural film" because it follows exactly the externally imposed structure of the car ride.

Oh So Mysteriouso

 Pope all but endorses authenticity of Turin Shroud

· 05/03/2010 11:27:23 AM PDT ·
· Posted by markomalley ·
· 44 replies · 658+ views ·
· AP/WaPo ·
· 5/2/2010 ·
· Nicole Winfield ·

TURIN, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI all but gave an outright endorsement of the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin on Sunday, calling the cloth that some believe is Christ's burial shroud an icon "written with the blood" of a crucified man. During a visit to the Shroud in the northern Italian city of Turin, Benedict didn't raise the scientific questions that surround the linen and whether it might be a medieval forgery. Instead, he delivered a powerful meditation on the faith that holds that the Shroud is indeed Christ's burial cloth. "This is a burial cloth that wrapped the...

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