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From: rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk)
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Subject: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 46)
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     THE SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR CREATION: 116 CATEGORIES OF EVIDENCE

I.  (Life Sciences): THE THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION IS INVALID.  (See
    1-36.)

II. (Astronomical Sciences): THE UNIVERSE, THE SOLAR SYSTEM, AND  LIFE
    WERE RECENTLY CREATED. (See 37-87.)

III. (Earth Sciences): THE EARTH HAS EXPERIENCED A WORLDWIDE FLOOD.

    A.  ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE INDICATES  THAT  NOAH'S  ARK  PROBABLY
        EXISTS [a-g].

       88.  Ancient historians  such  as  Josephus,  the  Jewish-Roman
            historian, and Berosus of the Chaldeans mentioned in their
            writings that the Ark existed.   Marco  Polo  also  stated
            that  the  Ark was reported to be on a mountain in greater
            Armenia.

       89.  In  about  1856,  a  team  of  three   skeptical   British
            scientists  and  two  Armenian guides climbed to Ararat to
            demonstrate that the  Ark  did  not  exist.  The  Ark  was
            supposedly found, but the British scientists threatened to
            kill the guides if they reported it. Years  later  one  of
            the  Armenians  (then living in the United States) and one
            of the scientists independently  reported  that  they  had
            actually located the Ark.

       90.  Sir James Bryce, a noted British scholar and  traveler  of
            the  mid-nineteenth  century,  conducted extensive library
            research concerning the Ark. He became convinced that  the
            Ark  was  preserved  on Mount Ararat. Finally, in 1876, he
            ascended to the summit of the mountain and found,  at  the
            13,000  foot  level  (2,000 feet above the timber line), a
            large piece of hand-tooled wood that he believed was  from
            the Ark.

       91.  In 1883, a series of newspaper articles  reported  that  a
            team   of   Turkish   commissioners,  while  investigating
            avalanche conditions on Mount  Ararat,  unexpectedly  came
            upon  the Ark projecting out of the melting ice at the end
            of an  unusually  warm  summer.  They  claimed  that  they
            entered and examined a portion of the Ark.

       92.  In the unusually warm summer of  1902,  an  Armenian  boy,
            Georgie  Hagopian,  and  his uncle climbed to the Ark that
            was reportedly sticking  out  of  an  ice  pack.  The  boy
            climbed  over the Ark and was able to describe it in great
            detail. In 1904 Hagopian visited  the  Ark  for  a  second
            time.  Shortly  before his death in 1972, a tape recording
            was made of his detailed testimony.   This  recording  has
            undergone  voice  analyzer  tests  which indicate that his
            account is quite credible [h].

       93.  A Russian pilot, flying over Ararat in World War I (1915),
            thought  he saw the Ark. The news of his discovery reached
            the Czar, who dispatched a large expedition to  the  site.
            The soldiers were able to locate and explore the boat, but
            before they could report back to the capitol, the  Russian
            Revolution of 1917 had occurred. Their report disappeared,
            and the soldiers were scattered. Some of  them  eventually
            reached  the  United States. Various relatives and friends
            have confirmed this story.

       94.  At about the time of the Russian  sighting,  five  Turkish
            soldiers, crossing Mount Ararat, claim to have encountered
            the Ark; however, they did not report their story until 30
            years  later  when  they  offered  to  guide  an  American
            expedition  to  the   site.   The   expedition   did   not
            materialize,  and  their  services  were  not sought until
            after their deaths.

       95.  During World War II, a group of Russian flyers on at least
            two  occasions took aerial photographs that showed the Ark
            protruding out of the ice.  In Berlin after the war, these
            photos  were  shown to an American doctor who subsequently
            disclosed this story.

       96.  An oil geologist, George Greene, in 1953 took a number  of
            photographs  of the Ark from a helicopter. After returning
            to the United States, Greene  showed  his  photographs  to
            many  people but was unable to raise financial backing for
            a ground-based  expedition.  Finally,  he  went  to  South
            America  where  he  was killed. Although the pictures have
            not been located, over 30 people have given sworn  written
            testimony  that  they  saw  these photographs that clearly
            showed the Ark protruding from the melting  ice  field  at
            the  edge of a precipice.  There are many other stories in
            which people claim to have seen  the  Ark.   Some  are  of
            questionable  validity,  and  others are inconsistent with
            many of the known details.  Only  the  most  credible  are
            summarized above.

            a)  Violet M. Cummings, NOAH'S ARK: FACT  OR  FABLE?  (San
                Diego: Creation-Science Research Center, 1972).
            b)  Tim LaHaye and John D. Morris, THE ARK ON ARARAT  (San
                Diego:  Creation Life Publishers, 1976).
            c)  John Warwick Montgomery,  THE  QUEST  FOR  NOAH'S  ARK
                (Minneapolis,  Minnesota:  Bethany  Fellowship,  Inc.,
                1972).
            d)  John D. Morris, ADVENTURE ON  ARARAT  (El  Cajon,  CA:
                Institute for Creation Research, 1973).
            e)  Rene Noorbergen, THE  ARK  FILE  (California:  Pacific
                Press Publishing, 1974).
            f)  Violet M. Cummings, HAS  ANYBODY  REALLY  SEEN  NOAH'S
                ARK? (San Diego: Creation Life Publishers, 1982).
            g)  Dave Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier, Jr.,  IN  SEARCH
                OF NOAH'S ARK (Los Angeles: Sun Classic Books, 1976).
            h)  Rene   Noorbergen,   SECRETS   OF   THE   LOST   RACES
                (Indianapolis:  The  Bobbs-Merrill  Company, 1977), p.
                74-92.


                               TO BE CONTINUED


                                Ron Kukuk
                                Walt Brown