Wood in the Mountain: Waiting on the Lord at Durupınar
Wood in the Mountain: Waiting on the Lord at Durupınar "By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house." — Hebrews 11:7 Beloved in Christ, This week another report reached us from the mountains of Ararat — and once again, the news is fragments, not final answers. Researchers working at the Durupınar site in eastern Turkey, a boat-shaped formation near Mount Ararat identified in 1959, have recovered charred wood fragments from some 30 feet beneath the surface. The Noah's Ark Research Project, working with Turkish universities and, for the first time, official Turkish oversight and documented chain-of-custody procedures, has drilled deep cores, run ground-penetrating radar, and collected more than 300 soil samples. The wood fragments, some showing grain patterns and growth rings, have been sent to four laboratories in four countries for carbon-14 dating and species identification. "Too man...