Do you think Liberty University archaeologist Randall Price will succeed in finding the remains of Noah's Ark?

I believe Randall and his team will find it. Years back Randall taught at Central Texas Bible Institute and I was one of his students. You could surely see the annointing of God on this man, he was a brilliant teacher who made the bible become alive in many different elements such as the Spiritual truths, Cultural life, Geographical surrounding, and in many other ways. I still have a book that Randall and Tommy Ice wrote together titled the Rebuilding of the Temple. It is signed by both. I promise I will read it all the way through when you find the Ark. I only wished I could be with them as they journey to Turkey in discovering ana amazing truth. May God's hand be upon you.

Paul Ortega

The question is not whether Randall will find it, the question is whether God wants it to be found and when He wants it to be found. Nevertheless, what a thrilling find it would be.

Imo our Lord will allow it to be found , to be a supersign( as Israel is ) to the unbelieving world, so that they would be without excuse not to acknowledge him. I feel that it will happen shortly before the rapture
He is a loving God, not willing that any should perish, it anligns with his charachter and his word, he always gave warning to judgment in the past.

He might as well be searching for a unicorn. Oh, that must be one of the species that Noah left off the ark, along with the dinosaurs. Of course, Noah did manage to pack on tens of thousands of species--mammals, insects, reptiles, amphibians. And, amazingly, Noah's family must also have been composed of members who represented each of the earth's many races, not just Caucasian, Negro and Asiatic, but all the rest like aboriginal, malay. Its a lovely allegorical story. Unlikely there'll be a lovely allegorical boat to please people who for some reason need desparately to find the ark in order to have some concrete, physical proof of their faith.

What gets me is Randall Price says, "they had interviewed the shepherd and could find no reason to distrust him." Hmmm. Let's get this straight ... no ark found for the past 5,000 years by dozens and dozens of explorations up Ararat. But a Kurdish shepherd comes along, and says he saw it as a boy, so now we drop everything, ask people to give us $60K, and follow him up the mountain. When he reaches the place where he said he saw it say 40 (?) years ago, there is nothing but a boulder field; but even that does not raise suspicions about the reliability of our Kurdish shepherd guide, since the boulders are undoubtedly the result of something that must have happened in the meantime, such as "explosives that were set off to cover up the ark." Rigggghhhhht! Kurdish soldiers have nothing better to do than to cover up the evidence of an ancient artifact that would bring them worldwide fame and millions of dollars from the media for the rights to the story of the century. "Hey! This is the most incredible archaeological discovery of all time that is sure to make us multi-millionaires! Let's set off explosions to cover it under a boulder pile!"

I admire the resolve of those concerned in this project. To pursue something with passion is what all people are inspired to do - and not just in this nation. Recent expeditions by the BASE Institute in 2006/2006 (http://baseinstitute.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=65) present interesting information. The disclaimer at the end is necessary, but not sufficient cause to discount or discredit scientific explorations.

No I'm afraid he will come up empty handed.

The Ark having landed on the top of Mt Ararat would be all well and good when the flood waters were up that high. However, once the waters had fully receded, the Ark and it's inhabitants, now at more than 14,000 feet in elevation would have suffered Snow, Ice, oxygen depravation and sub-zero temperatures. The climactic conditions, and steep mountainous surfaces, for which the desert dwelling Noah Family would have been unprepared would have spelt the end of the last humans on earth and most of the animals as well. Thus there would be no one to write about an ark much less read about one. That one little salient fact about the climate puts the kibosh on the story of Noah's Ark as being reality as the bible has it.

Faith can be a good thing but is not always grounded in reality. Such as the parents who had faith their child would be healed by Jesus so never sought medical attention. The result...their child died.

Faith in Noah's Ark does not mean it exists, especially whern the application of some logic and common sense can put so many hioles in it that one can see that it would have been impossible to float much less sail.

There are many other holes I can punch in the story and none of them involve Evolution or the Geologic Column, just logic and common sense.

I know though that those with faith will continue to believe even when it's pointless.

July 17th,2009-I just want to point out that to base an expedition to find Noah's Ark on the story of a shepherd would seem to bring into question the reliability of such information. Not because this shepherd lied or anything like that. But mainly because this story has too many similarities to two other stories with almost identical elements of the story being the same.

In other words, what I speak of is here we have a shepherd stating he saw the ark. Plus, that he saw it forty years ago. Now he is just making it known to those who are going on this expedition back in about maybe 2007-2008. Just this right here has almost identical elements to two other previous stories about the ark remains being found i a similar manner. One that is known, and another that is not known at all but in which I have learned about recently.

The first known story this shepherd story has striking similarities to is the known story of the late Mr. George Hagopian. Who when he was about 70-71 years of age stated that :"As a shepherd boy he and his uncle saw the ark twice, when his uncle went to go take him to see it in about in about 1908 and again in 1910.Not only did his uncle and him see the ark, but his uncle also lifted him up on top of the ark. Than he even walked on top of it, went to one of the air vents or windows on top and yelled inside and because it was hollow he heard his voice echo inside of it". After this story for over forty-one years now people have believed the story of the late Mr. George Hagopian. However, they have never once been able to validate as to even what location for sure as to where the ark may be or not.Therefore, in these forty one years not being able to find the ark remains either.

The second unknown story can be found in a 1949 newspaper I have a copy of. This again involves Dr. A.J. Smith who also adamantly looked for the remains of Noah's Ark on several occasions. But, who sadly never found those remains. He is to be respected and admired for trying so hard. However, the article reports that :"Dr. Smith also listened to :"a shepherd" that he too when younger had saw the ark remains as well.Dr. Smith evidently took this data as good enough to embark and look for the ark remains on the northwest side of Mt. Ararat. What is not known is that Dr. Smith scoured the northwest side of Mt. Ararat with many, many men. Never finding the ark. However, Dr. Smith had the courage to admit that maybe he was mistaken based on such previous information. There is also other data and evidence that Dr. Smith may have had much more reliable data at that time to maybe find the remains somewhere else. But, he instead like (now), simply took the word of a shepherd

Now let us compare some of the similarities., between these stories.Which are as follows :

#1). All three stories involve the both men that saw it in 2008, or so and in some years before 1947 ,1908 and 1910 .In all stories and and they were shepherd boys.

#2). All three men tell their stories many, many, years later.The most recent story this shepherd tells his story forty years later. In 1947 a number of years before he reports it With the late Mr. Hagopian he tells his story almost 61 year later in 1969.If they had told their stories within a few years after they saw it, or soon after they grew up as young men, would make their stories more reliable and credible. Why?

You can trace events more easily and maybe have a greater chance of finding data and evidence to back it up. But, even ten years ago or the further back than this in which the event would have occurred,would make it more and more difficult to really be able to discern what is real, and what is not.Human memories leave out pertinent details the longer back a person has to try to remember an event. Medical studies have proven over and over again for years now prove this to be true. The 1908, 1910, and 1948,reports did /have not produced the ark remains. Maybe, the 2008 story/2009 exped