It's you who has been "indoctrinated".
DID YOU KNOW that there have been many expeditions to the site on top
of Mount Ararat, to the REMAINS of the ark? .. no, I bet you don't know ...
You sit there tapping away on your keyboard, blindly posting false garbage.
A Frenchman, Fernand Navarra, has led FOUR expeditions to the Ark. He
first saw it in 1952, but was unable to get close enough. A second time he
tried in 1953 but was beaten by the cold and the treacherous conditions. In
his 1955 expedition he reached it, and took samples and many photographs.
Navarra went back again to the Ark in 1969, keeping a detailed diary of the
expedition, with abundant evidence. The scientific test reports are all there
reproduced in his book, confirming the timber species, carbon dated to about
5,000 years - and 100 photographs are in the book: "Noah's Ark: I touched It".
Mr Navarra first heard it was there from a friend whose Armenian grandfather
lived in a town called Bayazid, right at the foot of Mount Ararat in Turkey.
Many people have been there - from as long ago as 475BC, bringing back
pieces of bitumen scraped off the Ark's hull.
These visits have been recorded by Berosus of Chaldea, Josephus in his
"Antiquities of the Jews", Hieronymus the Egyptian who wrote Phoenician
Antiquities, Mnaseas and others, such as Nicholas of Damascus, and St
Theophilus of Antioch wrote about it.
Flemish traveller William of Ruysbroeck heard many accounts about the
Ark from local people in the 13th century. Marco Polo (1254-1324) spoke
of the existence of the Ark. Sir John Maundeville was told an account of
Jacob of Nisbis, who brought back a fragment of the Ark in 330AD, and
the same story was recounted by 17th century traveller Jean Chardin.
In 1800 the remains of the Ark were seen by Aga Hussein, according to
American writer Claudius James Rich ... and in July 1840, after a major
earthquake the Turkish government sent several teams of workers up to
construct protective avalanche barriers.One of those teams reported the
discovery of the front of a very old ship, divided into 3 rooms, jutting out
of a glacier ... Several other unsuccessful expeditions were made that
century until 1876, when Englishman James Bryce reached the summit
and said he found, "in the middle of blocks of lava, a piece of hand-hewn
old timber about four feet long and five inches thick."
In August 1883, a Constantinople newspaper announced the discovery of
Noah's Ark. A Turkish expedition saw "a huge carcass in very dark wood"
protruding from a glacier in a gorge of Mount Ararat. The Turks recognised
the Ark immediately, the sides had some damage but it was otherwise in
good condition. They could only go into three compartments that were 15
feet high. The rest were full of ice, so they could not estimate how far the
Ark stretched back into the ice. The timber was gopherwood, as the Bible
had said, "which as everybody knows only grows in the Euphrates plains."
In 1893 a Nestorian named Nourri successfully reached the Ark, reporting
that "only the bow and the stern of the boat were accessible." The central
part was caught in the ice. It's made of dark-red beams of very thick wood,
and he said its dimensions corresponded with the Genesis measurements.
In August 1916 a Russian aviator, Wladimir Roskovitsky flew over the top
of Mount Ararat and said he saw, on the eastern side, what appeared to
be the skeleton of a huge ship sticking out of the ice, about the size of a
"city block". A quarter of it was caught in the ice, one side was ripped
open and the other side had space for a big double door, half of it missing.
He informed his superiors of the discovery, and they flew over and sighted
it for themselves, reporting it to Moscow and Petrograd. Nicholas II gave
orders for an expedition of 150 soldiers to be sent. They worked to make
the summit accessible, and a scientific mission climbed to the site, took
measurements of the Ark and photographs, cut off samples and sent all
of those back to Petrograd.
During World War II, Major Jasper Maskelyn reported that one of his men
flew over Mt Ararat and spotted the wreck, partly submerged in a frozen
lake. An expedition sent afterwards had "found the remains of an ancient
vessel." But the Soviet Encyclopedia defines the story of Noah's ark as
a "legend which is harmful to science."
Egerton Sykes, former secretary to the British Embassy in Warsaw has
an extensive collection of historical and geographical information on the
Ark and Mount Ararat - with over 600 items of source material.