Posted on 05/05/2010 6:02:54 PM PDT by FootBall
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 to keep his excursion very hush-hush.
“There’s not a lot (regarding Noah’s Ark) that I can say,” Price said, but he went on to give some basic details of what he plans to do next August, as the expedition finishes up.
Price said in January that he believes the Biblical boat is resting on Mount Ararat, covered by a glacier that sometimes temporarily recedes to give glimpses of what he believes is an ancient structure.
“We did penetrate about 18 feet down into the glacier, and we have some evidence that we’re in the right place,” Price said, adding satellite data puts them about 30 feet from their goal.
Price said he’s aware that whatever rests under the glacier might not be the jackpot he has been looking for.
“While we’d like to think it’s Noah’s Ark, we’re not sure what it is, but it’s in the right place,” he said.
Price said whatever there is to be discovered, it should be found when he returns in the coming summer.
“There is negotiation between Turkish authorities and this warring faction,” he said, “and that should enable us to go back without problems next year.”
LOL! (How many of these can they publish???)
If I were Noah’s family and just got stranded on the top of some mountain with nothing around, I would first start dismantling the ship to build the homes for my family. We will never find this vessel. It would not make sense to leave such tooled wood laying around and not use it in the New World. Sorry Everyone!
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