LOLiberty University professors go to Turkey to find Noah's Ark

[alp227]

I found this courtesy of PZ Myers's blog. It references the aritcle "Excursion continues to find Noah's Ark in Turkey" from the Lynchburg, Va. newspaper The News & Advance.

If Noah’s Ark has been sitting on a mountain somewhere in the Middle East for a few millennia, a few more months of waiting are a small price to pay, at least for Randall Price.

Price, who heads Liberty University’s Center For Judaic Studies, talked in January about his planned two-season expedition into Turkey, with the hopes of finding the Biblical artifact. He arrived in Turkey over the summer.

But Price said since then, he’s faced pressure from a political group in Turkey that is forcing him to keep his excursion very hush-hush.

“There’s not a lot (regarding Noah’s Ark) that I can say,” Price said, but he went on to give some basic details of what he plans to do next August, as the expedition finishes up.

:rofl:

Of course, flood geology is frickin' religiously-motivated pseudoscience.

[Enrique]

1. somewhere in Turkey a shepherd is laughing at them

http://www2.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/lynchburg_man_looking_for_noahs_ark/13000/

(...)

Last fall, a new tip piqued both his and Price’s interest.

A Kurdish shepherd told them that he had seen the ark, and even climbed on top of it, when he was a boy.

The team hypothesizes that the ark is preserved in several pieces beneath a glacier on the mountain, and every so often the glacier recedes, exposing part of the vessel.

“That’s when he saw it as a boy,” Price said, adding that they had interviewed the shepherd and could find no reason to distrust him.

(...)

[damntexdem]

2. Now where did the Liberty University turkeys go?

They may not Noah lot, but at least they may figure that to find it, they'll have to use Ark lighting.

;-)

[johnaries]

3. They have found the Ark, but were perplexed by an inscription

carved into one of the beams. It said "Gilgamesh was here."

:rofl:

[SpiralHawk]

5. Good ol Gil had a sense of irony, fer sure

[KansDem]

4. Wasn't this found already?

I thought there was a documentary some 20-30 years ago about the discovery of Noah's Ark.

Maybe it was 50 years ago...

edited to fix link...(?)

[SpiralHawk]

8. Nah. What the Fundy Repubs found was 'Noah's Park'

It's a theme park that costs $50 a pop for admission. When they 'found it' they made a super big deal out of it, cuz it's even cooler than 'Chickenhawk World,' which up till then was the really BIG draw for republicon Latter Day Pharisees.

[KamaAina]

6. Liberty has a Center for Judaic Studies?

Isn't that like Bob Jones having an Afro-American Studies Department?

[izquierdista]

7. 10 to 1 they find fossils instead

and try to explain them as Noah off-loading cargo.

[mmonk]

9. Don't tell them I have the Holy Grail. I don't want them to come to my house.

[alp227]

10. PS: Classes that analyze pop culture are even more intellectual than this BS

The Jerry Falwell-funded fundie Liberty University does this kind of crap all the time. One of my friends takes a Harry Potter class at UC Berkeley; that's surely requires much more use of that thing called the brain than creationist apologetics! Berkeley has also offered a class analyzing the lyrics of hip hop artist Tupac Shakur. That would hold my attention really long (I'm a hip hop fan).

[IndianaGreen]

11. And they find T-Rex bones in the Ark showing that man and dinosaurs coexisted

just as our brilliant future President Sarah Palin always said.

:sarcasm:

[LuvNewcastle]

12. "In Search Of" did a documentary on this in the '70's.

Here's a link to Part 1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGeysneNxg8

[yourout]

13. It's in Wisconsin Dells.

<http://www.noahsarkwaterpark.com/>