Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Winnipeg free press thursday june 13, 1974 search for Noah s Ark gains momentum by Russel Chandler the los Angeles times with Noah and his Brood safely tucked inside the Ark against the rising floodwaters god closed the door behind him the Bible says. A deluge later on the 7th month and the 17lh Day according to genesis Hlll 4, the Ark rested upon the mountains of that the remains of a huge wooden vessel Are still preserved on the slopes of the mysterious Mountain an Choring the Borders of tur key Iran and soviet Armenia is a stubborn Rumor that won t go away. Each Spring about this time Ark fever Breaks out among. Biblical conserva Tives who arc convinced that the Hull of the ancient ship indeed lies buried perhaps under thousands of tons of ice and Snow some where Between the and foot Levels the Peak. Each summer expeditions assault the slopes in s e a r c h of Noah s ship. This july and August will be no exception if the tur Kish government is willing. There arc eight groups i know of from the United states trying to get per mits for this said Eryl Cummings of Farmington new Mexico one of the grand old men of for More than 100 years men by the dozens have been scrambling for Evi Dence of the ship which according to biblical dimensions was 450 feet Long 45 feet High and had a beam of 75 feet. Or. Cummings 69, and his wife Violet have de voted More than 25 years to their attempt to solve the Sphinx like Riddle of the fabled Ark and substantiate the Bible record. Since 1901, the Tempo of Ark Hunting has picked up considerably 31 separate forays have been attempted according to or. Cum mings who himself has been to Ararat seven times since i960. Ark Hunters have been fuelled by repeated stories of sightings of a dark Hull like Structure in a Crevice near an ice Lake on the Northern slope. They have been tantalized by satellite photos which show something re ported to be foreign to the rest of the Mountain. The most compelling Evi Dence so far that some thing extraordinary is Lurk ing beneath the glacial ice is several intriguing planks of Wood recovered by explorers in 1955 and 1m6. Laboratory tests disagree on the probable age of the dark almost fossilized fragments. In 1970, the University of California at los Angeles isotope lab dated an l shaped beam found at feet by French explorer Fernand Navarra in 1955 at about years old. Wood found in 1967 was thought to be Between and 1.goo years old. But labs in Madrid Paris and Bordeaux considering the radiocarbon dating technique invalid because of probable contamination of the samples declared Navarra s hand tooled Wood to be of great Antiquity perhaps years old. Two san Diego based organizations Are among the groups seeking permission from the turkish govern ment to search it. Ararat this summer. John d. Morris 27, a former Engineer Heads the quest for the Institute for creation research an Arm of Christian heritage col lege an Independent Baptist institution in turn affiliated with the Rev. Tim Lahay s Scott memorial Baptist Church in san Diego. The other san Diego organizations is the creation science research Centre directed by Kelly Segraves and closely aligned with or. And mrs. Cummings of new Mexico. The two organizations emerged from a single one several years ago indicating perhaps the Independence and rivalry of Ark Hunters. Another Strong contender who Hopes to clamber up Ararat again this summer is or. John Warwick Mont Gomery a professor at Trinity evangelical divin Ity school in Deerfield in. He is a Veteran of two expeditions with or. Cum mings plus extensive investigations of his own. Whether any parties will get permits for this sum Mer is problematic at Best. So far the turkish government has t been willing to Grant any. In april officials banned t r a v e l by foreigners to Ararat which is in a Mili tary zone. A11 h o u g h the Interior ministry gave no details it cited problems caused by increasing numbers of for Eigners wanting to climb the Mouquin under vary ing but even if permits arc granted what Are the chances that positive Evi Dence of Noah s Ark will be found Ark inquirers cite a Chain of events dating Back to the last Century. Several of the most important links 0191c russian airman w. Hos Kovitsky said lie saw the remains of Cint vessel on the slopes o f greater Ararat. The Czar organized an expedition which ostensibly found the remains and brought Back a description. 01952 in late mining Engineer George Jefferson Greene re Connor terms for his company in a helicopter distinctly saw the prow of a ship in the he took photos but they disappeared when he was murdered 10 years later in British Guiana. According to this account six pictures were seen by about 30 persons some of whom said woo Den Side planking was visible. 0 August 1952 Fernand life expectancy u1 Kuala Bumpur the life expectancy of malaysian men has increased by six years and that of women by eight years since 195u, when it was 56 for men and 58 for women. Navarra the Frenchman made the first of three explorations and reported seeing the outline of a 450 foot ship buried in an enor Mous ice Cap at feet. In 1955 to brought Back hand tooled Wood found there 1969 Navarra and a group known us search from Washington made up o f 25 persons including Arctic Institute of North America scientists Reco. Vered More Wood near Navarra s 1955 find. February 1974 . Sen. Frank e. Moss chair Man of the Senate space committee prompted by or. Montgomery announced that a speck on a photograph made by a . Space satellite might be Noah s Ark. He said an Earth re sources technology satellite photo taken from 450 Miles up showed a forma Tion which appears to be foreign to other materials found on the Mountain. It s about the right size and shape to be the others who stoutly be Lieve the Ark is on it. Ararat nevertheless Dis agree with sen. Moss conclusions and Les Gavor a National aeronautics and space administration official in Washington told the times it was fairly unlikely that an object the size of the Ark could be detected in a photo taken from that Altitude. Conservative scholars be Lieve discovery of the Ark is important because it would discredit modern sol in Tiftic theories of evolution and prove that the old testament account of creation is historically accurate. Kelly Segraves director o f creation science re search Centre in san Diego maintains that phys ical evidence of the Ark should Settle the Issue among scholars about whether there was a local or a Universal flood. To cover the entire Earth Points out or. Ber Nard Ramm an american Baptist theologian the Waters must have sub merged even h i g h it. Everest. And when that water drained off he asks where did it Drain to moslem and Many East Ern christians believe the Ark came to rest not on Ararat in Turkey but on a much lower Mountain called Judi 200 Miles to the Southwest. The Judi Trade lion is recorded in the Koran. The late or. William f. Albright of Johns Hopkins University a world renowned archaeologist and an authority on ancient languages scoffed at the idea the Ark May be under the Ararat Glacier. He said in an interview in 1970 that there was no basis either in biblical geography or in later Trade lion for the claim that the Mountain bearing the name of it. Ararat in modern times is the location of the Ark s settling. Or. Albright also said at the time thai there was no physical evidence for a flood of worldwide proper 1 Lions around 2000 by. Still the reported sight Ings the photographs the indisputable evidence of tooled Wood found Well above Timber line plus i h e desire of Arreolo gifts to Roule sceptics believe thai the Bible is a Book of fables impel Ark Hunters Ever Onward up inscrutable Ararat. At least one Arcco Loisl in Tologian however who is convinced of the Bible s authenticity in t worried Aboul nol finding Noah s Ark. Says or. Siegried h. Horn Dean of the seventh Day adventist theological Seminary at Andrews University in Berien Springs survivors o f the flood May have used the Ark s timbers to build their free from time consuming repairing and repainting the outside of your Home. Your saturdays and sundays Are free with Alcan building products because they re made of heavy gauge non rusting aluminium that won t Warp or rot and finished with two layers of gleaming baked on enamel that won t Blister Flake or Peel. With Alcan building products you get your weekends free. 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