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Claim CH503.1:

Giant anchor stones found in the Durupinar area of the Middle East are too large and too far from water to have been transported by normal means. They are evidence for Noah's ark.

Source:

Wyatt, Ron, 1989. Discovered: Noah's Ark. Nashville, Tennessee: World Bible Society, pp. 21-22,24.
Fasold, David, 1988. The Ark of Noah, New York: Knightsbridge Publishing.

Response:

  1. The "anchor" stones likely had nothing to do with Christianity or the ark. Such stones were known to have been crafted by pagans for their worship before Christianity came to Armenia. The "rope holes" were niches for lamps. When Christianity came to the region, the stones were Christianized by inscribing Christian symbols on them (Merling n.d.).

  2. The rock from which the anchor stones are made is volcanic rock found around Mount Ararat where the anchor stones were found, but not found in Mesopotamia (Iraq) from which Noah is alleged to have departed (Collins and Fasold 1996). If the stones were crafted by Noah, they would have come from the region where Noah came from, not where he landed.

Links:

Merling, David, n.d., Has Noah's Ark been found? http://www.tentmaker.org/WAR/HasNoahsArkBeenFound1.html

References:

  1. Merling, David, n.d., Has Noah's Ark been found? http://www.tentmaker.org/WAR/HasNoahsArkBeenFound1.html
  2. Collins, L. G. and D. F. Fasold, 1996. Bogus "Noah's Ark" from Turkey exposed as a common geologic structure. Journal of Geoscience Education 44(4): 439-444. http://www.csun.edu/~vcgeo005/bogus.html

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