Noah’s Ark

The discovery of a boat-shaped mound close to the border between Turkey and Iran has prompted theories that ‘Noah’s Ark’ may be buried beneath.

Archaeology breakthrough as Noah’s Ark’s final location may have just been discovered

A group of archaeologists and scientists called the Mount Ararat and Noah’s Ark Research Team carried out research on the Durupinar formation, which is located two miles from the border in eastern Turkey.

The Durupinar Formation in eastern Turkey

The geological formation in the Doğubayazıt district of Ağrı has been a source of intrigue since its gaining wider public attention in the 1950s.

Marine materials were also discovered in the soil, suggesting that it had once been submerged in deep water, and also encouraging the idea that it could be the famous vessel described in Genesis.

David Montgomery, a professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington in Seattle previously told Live Science: “The one thing we know for sure from geology is that a global flood never happened. If you look at it as literally a global flood that covered the world’s highest mountains, I’m sorry, there’s just not enough water on Earth to do that.”

Contradiction

Montgomery’s statement is a direct contradiction of the Word of God.

“And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark,” Genesis 7:18-23.

This account is part of the New Testament gospel message.

“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly,” 2 Peter 2:4-6.

David Montgomery, and all of his ilk, hate the account of Noah’s flood for it reveals a God Who is all powerful and holds sinful man to account for his rebellion against His commandments. Sinful would man rid himself of such a Being!

This age will end with just such a world-wide final effort being made. It is that spoken of in Psalm 2. “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us,” verses 1-3.

Montgomery claims “there’s just not enough water on Earth to do that,” that is, cover all the mountains of the earth.

‘Googled’

Out of interest, I ‘Googled’ the question, ‘How much water is there in the atmosphere?’ The answer given, for what it is worth noting, is ‘37.5 million-billion gallons’!

I then ‘Googled’ the question, ‘Is there water under the earth’s surface’? The answer I obtained was, ‘There are 6 quintillion gallons of water hiding in the Earth’s crust’, that is 6,000,000,000,000,000,000!!

That is an awful lot of water which would certainly cover the earth were the clouds to empty down and the underground waters to surface.

But that is exactly what happened in the day of Noah’s flood!

“And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered,” Genesis 7:7-19.

Christian scholars, such as John C. Whitcomb and Henry M. Morris, in their book, ’The Genesis Flood’, (a book that was studied by those in the late Dr Alan Cairns’ ‘Dogmatic Theology’ classes during my time in the Free Presbyterian Church Theological Hall, 1965-1967) contained the most wonderful details of the ‘geological’ implications of the Bible’s account of the flood and its aftermath.

Biographical details of the authors

Henry M. Morris became the Professor of Civil Engineering in the area of hydraulics in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University . He served as department chairman for civil engineering. There, Morris co-authored an advanced text on engineering hydraulics with J. M. Wiggert, that was used in many universities, and under a decade of their leadership the department became one of the country’s largest civil engineering departments.

John Clement Whitcomb Jr. (June 22, 1924 – February 5, 2020) was an American theologian and Young Earth creationist. Along with Henry M. Morris, he wrote ‘The Genesis Flood,’ which influenced many conservative American Christians to adopt flood geology.

The earth before and after the flood was a very different climatic and environmental place! I have no doubt that the form of the creation before the flood and that of it afterwards was likewise substantially changed. Evolutionists are forever telling us of changes to the earth’s surface that took place during ‘millions of years’. Mountains grew higher and were enlarged etc. This is central to their ‘anti-God’ theory of Evolution.

John C. Whitcomb and Henry M. Morris set forth evidence that such changes and the ‘ice age’ likewise often referred to by evolutionists, and also the fossil records, can all be simply accounted for in unparalleled upheavals that are referred to in Genesis chapter 7.

Different

The earth that Noah and his family stepped out of the ark on to was a very different earth from the one they left some twelve months earlier. It does not take the Lord long to bring in changes that are so extensive that man’s still only coming to understand a very small fraction of the ‘transformation’ that took place!

Rain

One of the evidences of the change may be seen in that in the pre-flood earth, there was no rainfall but “there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground,” Genesis 2:6. After the flood rainfall is a prevailing and constant feature our weather patterns. Indeed, the Lord reassures mankind that the rainfall will not result in another flood.

“And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease,” Genesis 8:20-22.

The account of the flood gives information that  indicates that very substantial changes in the climatic and atmospheric conditions in the creation took place as a resulted of that cataclysmic event.

Given the absence of the high mountains that there are today upon the face of the earth, the world as it was in Noah’s early day would indeed have been covered when the Lord released all the waters that were in the earth and in the skies above. That accounts for the discovery of the fossils of sea creatures on the tops of many of earth’s mountains today! Such deposits cannot be accounted for by ‘local floods’! A flood which covered a high mountain in South America, would undoubtedly also have covered Kilskeery in Co. Tyrone!!!

It is a fact that there are indeed fossils of marine animals at the top of Mount Everest, whose summit is more than 29,000 feet above sea level — specifically, trilobites, brachiopods, crinoids (which are related to starfish), conodonts (extinct eel-like creatures) and ostracods (tiny crustaceans). The evolutionist will tell us that changes brought about on the earth’s surface over ‘millions and millions’ of years brought that which is now the top of Mount Everest from under the surface of an ancient sea!

Many fossils have been found in such a form as to clearly indicate instantaneous death and instant encapsulation in that which under pressure became rock! I have seen pictures of an ancient sea mammal fossilised as it gave birth! That was shown on a David Attenborough television documentary. No explanation was offered as to how that can about!

Other fossils have been recorded in the act of eating prey. One fossil found in China has ‘evolutionists’ speculating that it shows ‘a cat-sized creature called Repenomamus robustus, whose skeleton is entangled in a final tussle with a beaked dinosaur known as Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis.

Such phenomena are accounted for by the evolutionists as being the result of a local volcanic eruption engulfing the creatures in mud. But there must have been such volcanic activity WORLD-WIDE and all about the same time, since evolutionists tell us that each of the individual layers of sedimentary rock containing a great variety of fossils can be dated. Irrespective of our rejection of the erroneous dates put on the rock layers by the evolutionist, there has been an earth-wide creating of these fossils in rock layers, formed by the depositing of sediment by water, which can only be explained by the Genesis flood!

These ‘evolutionary speculations’ are mere sinful, man-conceived notions, in a foolish attempt to explain away Genesis 7. However, the Bible’s account of the ‘Flood’ and its aftermath is much more rational than all the follies that evolutionists engage in and put forth as ‘truth’!

One day, the likes of ‘Professor David Montgomery’, will discover that to his eternal cost, if he continues in his Bible-rejection!

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
25th October 2024