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Claim CH502.2:

The Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) photographed Noah's ark in 1973.

Source:

LaHaye, Tim and John Morris, 1976. The Ark on Ararat, Nashville: Thomas Nelson Inc. and Creation Life Publishers, pp. 203-206.

Response:

  1. ERTS does not have sufficient resolution to photograph the ark. An object of the expected size (appx. 450 by 75 feet) would occupy about one pixel of the image. The object in the photograph that was claimed to be the ark is much too big (Bailey 1989, 91; LaHaye and Morris 1976).

References:

  1. Bailey, Lloyd R., 1989. Noah: The Person and the Story in History and Tradition, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
  2. LaHaye and Morris, 1976. (see above)

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