What's a Cubit?

Noah’s Ark Found

A group of Christian researchers claim that they have found the remains of Noah's Ark, located four kilometers up the side of Turkey's Mt. Ararat.

"It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it," researcher Yeung Wing-Cheung told Agence-France Presse.



The Christian Science Monitor and a number other organizations are already calling the find a hoax. The Monitor quotes Dr. Randall Price, an Ark researcher and professor at Liberty University. He says he was with the team in a 2008 expedition to the site. Price claims in a leaked e-mail that a group of Kurdish men transported ancient wood beams to the site and planted them there.

However, Dr. John Morris, the president of Dallas' Institute for Creation Research, disagrees. He led 13 expeditions to Mt. Ararat between 1970 and 1990. "I think it would be highly unlikely that anybody could carry wood up.… I don't think there's fraud involved. But that is a possibility," Morris told the Monitor.

Scienceblogs' Josh Roesnau explains,

Enjoy the story. Study the story. If you find meaning in the story, retell the story and help other people understand it. But the truth of the story about Noah's ark has nothing to do with exactly how long a cubit was, what sort of wood is meant by "gopher wood," or what happened to all the poop. Noah's ark is a story about the dangers of selfishness, about the importance of being good to one another, and ultimately of honoring our ancestors.