And I list again here for our convenience the Biblical description by which we can identify Noah's Ark:
Description list from Genesis 6:14-16; (NIV)
1.
made of cypress ( or gopher) wood
2. rooms
3. coated with pitch inside and out
4. 300 cubit long (450 - 525 ft)
5. 50 cubits wide (75 - 87.5 ft)
6. 30 cubits high (45 - 52.5 ft)
7. It has a roof
8. It has a window near the top
9. It has a door/way in it side
10. It has a lower, middle and upper decks
11. It landed in the mountains of Ararat (Urartu) Gen. 8
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(Originally published in Newsletter # 1, September, 1992)
Over the past fifteen years, the Turkish government has cooperated with Ron Wyatt in obtaining and evaluating structural specimens from Noah's Ark. One of these specimens was a piece of fossilized deck planking, which many of you have seen on the up-dated Noah's Ark videos. The most recent news in regard to this specimen is that thin sections have been cut from this deck timber for microscopic examination. As you can see in the photograph on photo page no. 5, a corner section was cut off from this incredibly hard fossilized deck timber.
The Aramaic root word for the Hebrew word "gopher wood" seems to indicate laminated wood (this is when layers of wooden boards are glued together one upon the other to provide extra strength), and when these cuts were completed, it was plainly evident that at least this portion of the deck planking is laminated wood!
The excess of the cementing substance (the "glue" used was resin, which was made from tree sap) was squeezed out the end of the plank. hardened and has remained in the fossilized form. Until this cut was made, it was merely assumed that the dripping material along the outer edge was the pitch placed on the outer surfaces of the deck timbers and the rest of the boat. But now, the amazing fact has come to light that the construction methods used by Noah to build the ark included laminating.
"All rock samples from the structure [anomaly] are pyroxene-bearing andesite or basalt partly altered to serpentine. Local calcite veins cut across the rock. [the glue in the 'laminated wood'] Ilmenitic magnetite is a common accessory."
"The layered samples of rocks in the mud that Fasold recovered and believed to be cavity-fillings are andesite and basalt pebbles, typical of conglomeratic mud-flows in volcanic terranes. Similar samples recovered by him from areas claimed by others to be rib timbers, planking, and deck beams are also andesite or basalt pebbles or boulders and show no evidence of petrified wood." (Collins, LG, & Fasold, D., 1996, "Bogus 'Noah's Ark' from Turkey Exposed as a Common Geologic Strucure,' Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 44, pg. 439-444) Pebbles and boulders can be angular and flat sided.