Is the Wood Recently Found on Mt. Ararat from the Ark?

Answers in Genesis ^ | Nov. 9, 2011 | Andrew A. Snelling

[fishtank]

From the conclusion:

"Conclusion

If the wooden remains of the Ark were to be found on Mt. Ararat, then samples of that wood would be expected to yield C-14 dates of between 20,000 years and 50,000 years, consistent with the C-14 dates of pre-Flood wood found fossilized in the geologic record of the Flood. Even though the true age of such fossilized pre-Flood wood should be only 4,500 years or so old, around the date for the biblical Flood, these grossly inflated C-14 dates obtained in conventional radiocarbon dating laboratories are due to those laboratories ignoring the very much less C-14 in the pre-Flood world compared to today’s world. But in strong contrast, the wood samples that have been claimed by a Chinese-Turkish team to have supposedly come from their discovery of the wooden remains of the Ark on Ararat have yielded C-14 dates from analyses in conventional radiocarbon laboratories ranging from recent (modern) to 6,891±4,647 years. These results are grossly short of what the C-14 dates should be for pre-Flood wood. Therefore, if we logically follow the soundest scientific inference, it must be concluded that these wood samples cannot have come from the pre-Flood wood used to build the Ark. Given the present C-14 evidence, despite the tantalizing wooden remains the Chinese-Turkish team claims to have discovered on Mt. Ararat, such artifacts CANNOT have come from the Ark. So whatever they have found, they are NOT the remains of the Ark."

[tweakDU]

nice on-the-money toss

[Retro Llama]

it should make one wonder how that wood got up there

Yeah -- I mean it's not like ancient people ever made stuff out of wood and carried some of it around with them....

[Thorliveshere]

Remember Jesus did say not one jot or tittle would be removed from the Holy Words...

Yes, but nowhere does it say in Genesis say XXX amount of years passed. It's all guess work of a nobody preacher. It does not invalidate the events of the Bible one bit to surmise that more years passed than what mr. nobody preacher says. We also get little things like Cain going to live with others after his ostracisation. Where did those people come from? Time had to go by to populate that region, right? Especially when Cain and Abel are first sons.

[mel]

Lot of people don’t believe david ever existed because it isn’t written everywhere in archeological finds.

[dfwgator]

[BrandtMichaels]

It is NOT guesswork - simply adding the ages of the patriarchs and their first born males. Jesus Christ lineage is documented twice both from Joseph and from Mary.

How do you like them apples?

[alancarp]

Obviously we’d be talking about a bunch of it here... way more than anybody would reasonably carry, and this is hardly a militarily strategic spot, so there’s no reason to go that high up for any sustainable purpose.

Suffice it to say: if somebody finds — and reasonably documents — an ‘ark-like’ quantity of wood not native to the area up there, then it becomes a news story.

[BrandtMichaels]

In Adam’s case I believe it was from Seth not Cain nor Able.

[BrandtMichaels]

http://www.biblestudy.org/maps/large-chart-life-span-patriarchs-from-adam-to-noah.html

[ArrogantBustard]

these grossly inflated C-14 dates obtained in conventional radiocarbon dating laboratories are due to those laboratories ignoring the very much less C-14 in the pre-Flood world compared to today’s world.

I'm mildly curious to know the basis for this claim. I don't recall seeing anything about ¹⁴C in the Bible.

[BrandtMichaels]

If on the other hand you need some scientific proofs for a young aged Earth and Universe...

101 Evidences for a Young Age of the Earth...And the Universe
http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth

[MHGinTN]

There is a mounting body of evidence that a huge water reservoir (or perhaps two or three) burst forth and flooded the entire region of the Middle east. There was a huge body of water in the Northern hemisphere which when it broke loose probably created the Great Lakes. Another (or the same one filling the Great Lakes) huge body of fresh water may have burst into the Atlantic ocean to cause the shutdown of the halene (sp?) cycle for six hundred years and causing a mini ice age over Europe.

[ne1410s]

The idea of a *4 billion year-old universe* is a construct of men.

[MHGinTN]

You might enjoy the following, from a Jewish Rabbi/astrophysicist:

http://www.geraldschroeder.com/AgeUniverse.aspx

[Charles Martel]

Too afraid to click on it...

It's just some ZZ Top, nothing too offensive. I thought it might be this one. It's safe, too - why, it even opens with a bit of Gregorian Chant. :-)

[BrandtMichaels]

That’s pretty similar to what Dr. Walt Brown PhD has presented in his online book - except that it was global not local...

Center for Scientific Creation - In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/IntheBeginningTOC.html

I bought the 8th edition hardback version for around $30.

[RoadGumby]

An easy lie to believe.

[healy61]

I have never heard that theory about Adam to Seth. Is it a commonly held idea?

[Jonty30]

I’ve both read and talked to biblical teachers who raise it as a possibility.

[RoadGumby]

Can you show me where He affirmed otherwise?

What is in the Bible is Truth. It is composed of history and prophesy and teachings. It is all we need to know, yet I think it is also correct to say it is not all that is to know.

Work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Decide that pieces/parts of the Bible are not true at your own hazard.