This is simply a summary of some of the interest points from the documentary “The Discovery of Noah’s Ark” produced in 1993 written by G. Edward Griffin, regarding the finding and analysis of the boat shaped object found in Mount Ararat.

The story of Noah’s flood has been found in over 200 world wide legends, many of which have religious overtones. The oldest writings of this flood story dates back to Sumer back in the fertile crescent.

Stories of the history of man were written on clay tablets and spread throughout the ancient world.

The story of the flood were among these, found on the 11th tablet in Sumer within the story of  “The epic of Gilgamesh”. In this epic Noah’s name is given as UTNAPISHTIM although the story is very similar to that of the bible, even mentioning the releasing of birds to find land.

For over 100 years man searched over the glaciers of mount Ararat searching for St Jacobs Arc.
Many fraudulently brought back pieces of wood proclaiming they had found it, others took photos which mysteriously disappeared.

The commonly known object that could be Noah’s arc was discovered in 1948 by a Mr Rashid. After 38 years David Fasold located Mr Rashid. David Fasold is the author of the book “The Ark of Noah”. Rashid said in 1948 there was a series of earthquakes that exposed the arc. Before these earthquakes it was flat ground. There where three earthquakes within 10-15 days. From the first, the object appeared. The second, the arc came up higher. The first, the object took the shape we find today.

In 1958 it was accidentally photographed from the air by a Turkish pilot working on a government map making programs. This object could not be a naturally formed object. An expedition was organized to investigate this.

Ron Wyatt in 1977, an amateur archaeologist inspected the site with a medal detector. Man made alloys from soil samples were detected indicating it was a man made object.

The neighboring village close to the site next to Kazan found ancient anchor stones. This village is 6000 feet above our current sea level and 2000 miles from nearest ocean. These Anchor stones weighed up to 20,000 pounds each and bear carvings of early Christian symbols.

Above: Anchor stone with early Christian carvings

In June 1985 David Fasold returned with other scientists. Three types of metal detectors were used to obtain 1000s of readings from what appeared to be the remains iron fittings. Molecular frequency generator discriminator found longitudinal patterns beans of structure in geometric patterns.

David returned the following year with ground penetrating ground unit.  It is used to identify subsurface formations. The findings supported the claim of beans and formations under the surface.

Although it is common to portray Noah’s arc as a rectangular boat shaped object, the formation that lays in the mountain of Ararat appears  to have been shaped like the Egyptian boats that sailed the Nile. These tapered boats are much more stable so its believed the arc may have looked like this.

It is believed a moon pool was used to serve many useful function; as a break, rain water could have been diverted through this moon pool, the rising/falling of waves in the pool would have functioned as a ventilating system and it also can be used to relieve stress of the ship when riding high waves.

Mr Griffin’s final conclusion on the matter is:

There is no way to know with 100% certainty if it is in fact the Arc build by Noah in the biblical stories.
What we can conclude is that:

• It is a man made object
• It was designed as a boat
• It incorporates principals of higher mathematics and sophisticated knowledge of hydrodynamics
• It is proper dimension and volume for the arc of Noah
• It is in the proper geographical location
• It is accompanied by anchor stones at an appropriate size
• It is in an area that for 1000′s of years was visited by religious pilgrims
• It is surrounded by mountains and villages that carry names from antiquity related to the arcs landing
• It is consistent with other flood legends from Sumer, the Torah and the Old Testament

The bible teaches us the flood in the days of Noah happened approximately 4400 years ago. Is there any evidence to support this date? Here are afew facts that I believe support this date.

• In 1999 the worlds population passed the 6 million mark. In 1800 there was approximately 1 billion. In the days of Jesus the world’s population was close to ¼ of a billion. It looks like the worlds population growth curve started around 4400 years ago.

• The earliest civilizations are generally recognized for having started in whats known the fertile crescent. These been Egypt, Babylon and Assyria. These date back to approximately 4000-4500 years ago.  The land of Sumer is known as one of these earliest civilizations. The oldest written language found has been Sumerian.

• The Sahara Desert has been studied carefully. It has been dated at 4000 years old based on its growth rate.

• When it rains, 30% of the water runs back into our oceans carrying mineral salts. Today our oceans are 3.6% salt, this could have been reached within 5000 years.

• Oil is under incredible pressure below earth. The weight of rocks is not sufficient to keep the oil under ground for more than 10,000 years. All coal seams and oil deposits were created by the animals and plants that were buried during this flood. At least the flood must have accord within the last 10,000 years.

• The oldest trees on the planet ring date to a maximum of 4300 years old. Some include the bristle cone pine.

• The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world. Growth studies show the reef is less that 4200 years old.

These factors are scientific predictions that validates the biblical date of the flood in the days of Noah. There simply is no scientific reason to reject this finding.

Several years ago I visited the small opal mining town called Coober Pedy, It’s approx 230 miles from the nearest ocean.

It was an exciting experience mining for opals in deep mines. The “experts” will tell you it takes millions of years for opal to form, but some of us know better. Every where you walked you could find small opal rocks and very small thin pieces of opal sea shells along the ground which was very strange.

While down there friends took me to a place called the breakaways which is an area of small mountains about 10 miles out of town.

THE BREAKAWAYS

Along the ground every 20-50 meters there were large clusters of fossilized sea shells (in the closed position). What on earth were they doing here almost in the middle of Australia, next to a desert? The locals explained millions of years ago the sea ran through this area, and since then they have dried up leaving evidence of this ocean. At the time it was believable. I wish I knew then what I did now about Noah’s universal flood.

A lot of these fossils where formed within small rock structures, how amazing.

To find fossil sea shells so far out from sea, in the closed position is evidence that the entire of Australia was once covered by ocean. Proof to me Noah’s flood did exist and did cover the entire earth.

Photos of my fossilized sea shells found at the Breakaways