Posted on 09/23/2026 5:57:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Researchers have begun drilling into a mysterious, boat-shaped formation in the mountains of eastern Turkey, hoping an underground robot will unearth the answer to one of biblical history’s biggest mysteries.
Members of the Noah’s Ark Scans expedition believe the Durupinar formation, located in eastern Turkey near Mount Ararat, could mark the final resting place of the vessel described in Genesis.
“Good morning from the outer rims of Noah’s ark,” the project’s marketing and fundraising director, divisive Christian activist Lauren Witzke, wrote in a Tuesday update.
“Core drilling has begun and the big bang evolutionists are already in damage control mode,” she continued.
Witzke said the expedition had Turkish government approval and oversight from local universities, with “some of the most brilliant minds in the world” taking part.
She made the sensational claim that, “When we are done, university curricula will need to be rewritten, and Darwinism will be dismantled.”
“This is the place where creation began anew,” she enthused.
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Is this a spinoff from Curse of Oak Island?
It is likely a spinoff from sanity... Noah’s ark?
Seriously?
This essentially loch ness, bigfoot, sasquatch and easter bunny territory.
Geraldo involved?
Your “essentially” is not in the Bible.
I had Noah’s Ark decorated sheets when I was a little boy. Have not thought of them in several decades.
Wood older than the pyramids staying intact... I’m going with a hard ‘no’ on that.
Spoiler alert -- this geological formation 29 km from Mt Ararat isn't the remains of a boat, much less Noah's Ark:
“The former Senate candidate is a self-proclaimed “flat-earther.”
How can one belive in Noah’s ark and be a flat-earther?
Wouldn’t all that water just roll off the side and take the ark with it?
I will be very curious as to what is discovered.
Would be nice if the Ark is under there, but highly improbable. For one thing, it’s not the right shape - the Bible describes a rectangular maritime barge, not a boat.
Has no one followed the findings of Ron Wyatt, including Noah’s Ark, the Dead Sea crossing, and Sodom and Gomorrah?
I recommend you search onl8ne for videos...
They’ve been exploring and surveying that site for more than 50 years. As yet they still can’t so much as prove that that’s the remains of a boat, yet they still manage to find people eager to throw money at them.
It appears to be a money-making opportunity. I hope they got some real roughnecks to trip dat pipe.
Both Geraldo and Brian Williams were the two embedded reporters on the ark.
Ice wall. Don't forget the huge ice wall. Held in the water like a bathtub.
Don't know where the water went when the plug was pulled, though.
Definitely not in those categories, since folk tales of a massive flood are endemic to ancient Mesopotamia, including in the Epic of Gilgamesh . Here’s one potential explanation:
https://ncse.ngo/yes-noahs-flood-may-have-happened-not-over-whole-earth
As a Christian for about 55 years, I have to agree with you. Possible? Sure. Likely? Not at all.
It could be petrified.
The oldest petrified wood on Earth is roughly 360 million years old.
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