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Or seven, if they're Kosher... Q: What's made of petrified wood, seems to be boat-shaped, the approximate size of a small aircraft carrier, and sits high up in the mountains of Iran? Well, we don't know the answer to that quite yet, but a sample is currently being analyzed. Noah's Ark? Not many boats found stranded high in the mountains. Certainly is an odd place to build a building. From the group's web site:
Can this be explained by orogeny or some other natural process? Or is there more going on here? No matter how this turns out, it should be interesting. I think you are right to say that not many boats can be found standed high in the mountains! There is no fun to make a building at really odd place! Posted by: Robby Thompson on July 12, 2006 12:47 AM From the article. Scouring the mountains all around the object, team participant Steve Crampton found thousands of fossilized sea shells blanketing the landscape. Cornuke brought back a one inch thick rock slab choked with fossilized clams. This may work against their claims. It takes more than a year for bivalves to really start growing. (they follow a sigmoidal growth curve) And given that Mt. Ararat was supposed to be the first to emerge from the flood, it would have been submerged for less than a year. The shells, if present, would have been tiny and sparse. Unless you take the '40 days and 40 nights' of rain to be a much much longer amount of time. 40 was used as a symbolic number at times. So for this peice of wood to fit the biblical narrative, any of these supposed clams would have to have less than a year of growth on them. What they're describing, assuming for a breif moment that their description is honest, is likely an area that was underwater for many years. It'd be interesting to see them show that none of those shells they say they found had more than a year's growth on it. Posted by: Ryan on July 12, 2006 03:50 PM I think you are right to say that not many boats can be found standed high in the mountains! There is no fun to make a building at really odd place! From the OP; The object appears to be a dike. i.e. some kind of dam or water wall. There are a lot of false positives for this kind of thing. Just look at the number of folks who have claimed to have found Atlantis, which is a better comparison to this than Elvis. Posted by: Ryan on July 13, 2006 01:07 PM This [clams] may work against their claims. It takes more than a year for bivalves to really start growing. I had the same thought, but I don't know much about it: Zebra mussels (for example) mature within a year; and I don't know what kind of an effect such a flood would have, in terms of redistributing existing critters. The story depicts about a year of flooding. Posted by: Tim (Random Observations) on July 19, 2006 03:10 AM Zebra mussels (for example) mature within a year; True, they mature sexually. But they're still only http://nis.gsmfc.org/nis_factsheet.php?toc_id=131"> 8-10 mm or so at that point. Maxium length is 4-5 times that. Of course, they didn't give us any information about the shells they found (years of growth, size, etc.) so it's hard to say. Granted, there are too many variables and too little evidence to say anything for certain. The whole thing seemed speculative. So I was a'speculatin. ;) Posted by: ryan w on July 23, 2006 01:11 PM Add your two cents...
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Some pictures of the claimed find are here
Posted by: Ryan on July 4, 2006 01:56 PM