Claim CH503.1:
Giant anchor stones found in the Durupinar area of the Middle East are too
large and too far from water to have been transported by normal means.
They are evidence for Noah's ark.
Source:
Wyatt, Ron, 1989. Discovered: Noah's Ark. Nashville, Tennessee: World
Bible Society, pp. 21-22,24.
Fasold, David, 1988. The Ark of Noah, New York: Knightsbridge
Publishing.
Response:
- The "anchor" stones likely had nothing to do with Christianity or the
ark. Such stones were known to have been crafted by pagans for their
worship before Christianity came to Armenia. The "rope holes" were
niches for lamps. When Christianity came to the region, the stones
were Christianized by inscribing Christian symbols on them (Merling
n.d.).
- The rock from which the anchor stones are made is volcanic rock
found around Mount Ararat where the anchor stones were found, but not
found in Mesopotamia (Iraq) from which Noah is alleged to have departed
(Collins and Fasold 1996). If the stones were crafted by Noah, they
would have come from the region where Noah came from, not where he
landed.
Links:
Merling, David, n.d., Has Noah's Ark been found?
http://www.tentmaker.org/WAR/HasNoahsArkBeenFound1.html
References:
created 2001-2-18, modified 2004-6-2
