Expeditions to find Noah’s Ark are a dime a dozen, and they tend to end with delusional religious fanatics
proudly proclaiming that they have found it,
since if you’re delusional enough to engage on a project like this to begin
with (other than for the laughs), you are usually not the kind of person who
has the faintest trace of a clue about how to assess any evidence you may come
across. Ron Wyatt found it;
Bob Cornuke found it in 2006;
a Chinese team found it in 2010 (though that was probably a hoax rather than a matter of delusion); and in
2011 a team of “scientists” led by Daniel McGivern discovered two large sections of Noah’s ark resting just below the surface atop
Mount Ararat in Turkey – it was Pat Roberston’s Christian Broadcasting Network that used the term “scientists”, by the way. Apparently the team used military
satellite imagery and ground penetrating radar technology to locate the ruins,
which they promptly believed were wooden. “The
evidence is overwhelming,” McGivern added. “This is the large piece from Noah’s ark.” Methinks McGivern has a
poor grasp of the meaning of the word “overwhelming”. Other people who saw the
satellite images maintained that the structure in question looked suspiciously
like rocks.
The discovery would apparently have been “the greatest event since the resurrection of
Christ,” though McGivern curiously seemed to have had no plans to actually
excavate it. He did plan an expedition, however, led by a local guy who have apparently been involved in Noah’s Ark hoaxes before,
but apparently that expedition came to nought. Even the WND appears to have been skeptical.
Diagnosis: Ok,
so we’re not entirely sure McGivern is actually a loon. But anyone who listens
to him certainly is, and apparently some people did.
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