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Activist Involved in ‘Noah’s Ark’ Search Vows to Rewrite Evolution Narrative
newsweek.com • • world
Key Points:
- A U.S.-based group, Noah’s Ark Scans, is investigating Turkey’s Durupınar Formation, a 515-foot-long boat-shaped structure, to determine if it contains remains of Noah’s Ark by testing core samples for wood and analyzing radar data.
- Lauren Witzke, fundraising director of Noah’s Ark Scans, stated that finding Noah’s Ark would directly challenge the theory of evolution and called for rewriting school curricula to exclude evolution if proof is found.
- Preliminary radar imagery interpreted by Bakhtar Research and Engineering suggests organized, structural patterns beneath the formation, but no wood material has been identified yet, and the findings have not undergone peer review.
- Previous studies, including a 1996 investigation by geologist Lorence Gene Collins, concluded the formation is a natural rock structure, but the current team claims to use more advanced technologies such as ground-penetrating radar and lidar.
- The Durupınar Formation, located near Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, has been a focus for Noah’s Ark hunters since 1959, but mainstream scientific consensus considers it a natural geological feature rather than remains of the biblical vessel.
