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.”
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.
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?
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.
Getting Closer And Closer
Although Esperante has yet to release his findings, he has begged the international community to invest in his research. If he and NAMI are correct, it could be one of the most fascinating discoveries since the Rosetta’s Stone.
Most world’s scientific community doesn't see the importance in finding the arks resting place, but for other curious minds, this only adds fuel to their fire, they will continue to search for answers.