[Izzy Dunne]

So.... the "grossly inflated" dates are due to scientific ignorance of C-14 levels, and the current tests range from "recent" to 6,891±4,647 years (not sure where "recent" leaves off, compared to 6891-4647 years ago), but we're "logically follow the soundest scientific inference" to say that these are NOT remains of the Ark.

Got it.

[alancarp]

Sounds like a statement crafted by a government committee. But with a seemingly continuous flow of these expeditions bringing back wood fragments, it should make one wonder how that wood got up there — in the neighborhood of 15,000 ft elevations, above the tree line and above the snow line. Just sayin’.

[Oztrich Boy]

Snelling is a wanker. We have chronologies of tree rings (Irish Pine and German oak) that match and go back 11,000 years. If this wacky idea Snelling pulled out of his arse had any merit, they would have zero C¹⁴. Instead the C¹⁴ matches (more or less) the Ring Cycle.

And the deviation corresponds to the variation in earth magnetic field strength from today's value, as measured by ancient pottery.