NAMI’s Claims
In April 2010, Man-Fai Yuen, a NAMI researcher, said that he and the search team had actually entered a wooden structure high on Ararat, and went on to describe the different spaces in the structure.
The researcher also claims that carbon dating puts the wood at 4,800 years old. Could they be on to something?
The Timeline Is Off
Dr. Snelling is pretty adamant that Mount Ararat couldn't possibly be the place where the ark docked. As he has stated again and again that the volcano which is now called Mount Ararat did not form until well after the floodwaters had retreated.
Furthermore, the evidence shows that the lavas and ash layers on Mount Ararat date back to the time of the post-Flood Ice Age.
There's Still Hope
With plenty of backlash from critics, one American researcher believes otherwise and insists that he has evidence of Noah’s ark on Mount Ararat.
Professor Raul Esperante from California works with the Geoscience Research Institute in digging into this seemingly unsolvable question.
Confident Statements
NAMI stood by their discovery, Eung Wing-Cheung, a filmmaker who works with the organization, said, “It’s not 100 percent that it is Noah’s ark, but we think it is 99.9 percent that it is.”
Paul Zimansky, a Middle East-specializing archaeologist of Stony Brook University, believes otherwise, and sarcastically replied: “I don’t know of any expedition that ever went looking for the ark and didn’t find it.”
Who Knows The Truth?
Esperante works steadfast to prove that Mount Ararat is in fact the true location of the ark, and NAMI’s findings as correct and hopes that rigorous and serious scientific work will be done in the area.
Once the scientific community has more conclusive data about the existence of Noah’s Ark in Mount Ararat, they can finally make it available to the general public.