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IN SEARCH OF NOAH'S ARK cisely where we’ve marked, is petrified wood. Its broken and appears to be a long section of deck timber". So they dug, in front of the governor, it was a public event, on TV etc, and up came a piece of wood, approximately two feet by one and a half feet. It was very heavily laminated actually, and we’ ve identified it botan- nically as “peti-cyprus”. Of course that'ss not gopher wood, but we think gopher means ‘laminated’, used for boats ever since of course, we all know its got great advantages; so its a large piece of laminated timber. We found othr pieces as well, some of which appears to be hand worked timber. I believe when we dig, we will find more of the fossilized structures of the “great boat”. One of the most interesting things when it comes to the Ark of Noah as recorded in in history, and in the scriptures in particular, is that it had a range of animals sufficient to repopulate the earth again. So zoologically speaking we're looking for evidence of some sort of a range of animals on the site. We’ve had one chance up by metal detectors, once wood, now ironized. RS: So what do you think about the flood theory and the theory £ of evolution? AR: Most people have got the theory of evolution stuck in their minds , a theory which is really in tatters now. Scientists are say- ing all over he world “good gracious haven’t we solved that part”. I’m not simply doing that by having a christian view, I’m simply saying that the whole theory is now in shambles, it really is. This idea that everything takes millions of years is astonishing. Let me give you an example. This is relative to the flood. When I stand up on top of the Blue Mountains or, as I’ve done, on the Grand Canyon, and I look down at the valley; I can stand there and say one of two things. Charles Darwin might have stood there and said “that little river down there would have taken millions of years to carve out this great valley “. See what he’s doing? A little bit of water over a long time has carved out the valley. I can stand on the same crevasse and postulate that a lot of water (from “the flood”) has carved out that same valley in a short period of time! I’ve examined Darwin’s theory carefully and believe it's a theo- ry that’s falling to pieces, I think its time we started to look at some other answers. I don’t think we need millions of years to explain what has happened, I think things happened very quickly within a much shorter time frame, 4-5,000 years ago, ok there was a flood there, may have covered the entire world. Let's not fool about, let's take the account and test it! Test if it was a flood that covered the to look inside. RS: Is it hollow? AR: What I mean is we’ve been taking core samples, because it’s all caved in with mud, and we have found animal hair inside. RS: Has this been identified? am. ate AR: No, its work in progress. I did some work on it just this year, on identifying it. We’ve also found animal dung which will be most intersting to identify as well. RS: Has it been carbon dated? AR: Well, we don’t hold carbon dating as accurate. It has been questioned by people today who are using it. I could provide doc- umentation to show you that there’s a great deal of, disenchant- ment shall I say, with radio-carbon dating. It has been pushed hard because everyone says it’s so wonderful. However for those who want to know it’s 5,700 years old usin the radio-carbon method, which is marginal for the 4-5,000 years we’re looking at. We'll be using isotope of hydrogen as a modern and accurate dating method. entire world and there was a boat that was big enough to be a float- ing zoo. Okay, you're looking at a big boat on a mountain, let’s face it it’s 2000 metres above sea level, and there is a boat that’s as big as a battle ship, how do you explain that? Across the mud valley from the site, there is a volcano, the biggest volcano in the area, that is the famous Mt.Ararrat. It is 17,000 feet or 5,000 metres high, and is covered with what’s called pillow lava. Pillow lave is only hardened underwater! Again you have a likely evidence of a flood! RS: What are the implications of theology, archaeology and sci - ence of your discovery? AR: First of all it represents a challenge to science, of wether the earth was indeed flooded, a major flood, 4-5,000 years ago! There are questions raised about the science of the iron age and the bronze age. All of those things we find on the site indicates, a high degree of sophistication metallurgically, which is a challenge for our knowledge today. I think that type of discovery is a very very major issue of debate, which must happen and that’s healthy, I’m all for it. RS: What about the petrified wood itself, surely you can deter - mine how long it takes to form? AR: I don’t have any specific knowledge on how long petrifi- cation takes place, but I know it can happen very quickly. For example | I did some Tesearch on the south c at Coalcliff some time ago with a geologist. With our geologist's hammer, we exam- ined some old abandoned jetty pylons and which some, over the years, have fallen apart, a real hazard for children, excuse the story but it will serve its point with evidence. It showed it was lightly etrified and rang like a bell when struck, which is 30-40-50 years old, they sawed the wooden pylon off and drilled through the mid- dle where there’s iron, which was used right down to the bedrock, very strong. Now when they’ve cut through horizontally they’ve ‘ound the iron in the middle has naturally rusted, in the process of etrification and chemical leaching of the iron has diffused out- wards, a process called ironization as well as petrification. We found a lot of the ribs were ironized, in other words the structure adjacent to them has diffused through it, and so here we ave a curious situation where things we can’t even see are picked As for history and archaeology together undoubtedly they are already being challenged, because what we are finding is the fur- ther we go back the more sophisticated things appear to be which is really rather contrary to our beliefs of history. If you had found some of the things we’ve found already, you would also be challenged as WE have been. As I’ve said we’re not arguing the point I’m simply bringing forth evidence and letting people consider. RS: Thank you Allan. NEXUS - 36 IN SEARCH OF NOAH'S ARK YEAR BOOK - JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1992