Noah’s Ark Confirmed???
That is like putting the proverbial cart before the horse, yet there are lots of videos and some news articles suggesting just that. Some examples:
Noah’s Ark ‘100% confirmed’ as scientists make ‘one of the greatest human discoveries in 4,300 years’New Noah’s Ark update after ‘100% confirmation’ claim as everyone says same thing
Those are just two of the news articles, but the unfortunate aspect of those articles is that the content does not support the headlines. The first article says:
“We have not identified any material as ancient wood or established its age,” as “no laboratory results are in yet,” Andrew Jones, founder of Noah’s Ark Scans, said last week, per Newsweek. “In one hole inside the formation, at about 4–5 meters, the drill bit broke on a hard layer. We do not yet know what it was. Petrified or heavily mineralized wood is one possibility we want tested; a hard rock block within the surrounding debris is another.”
He added, “When I said in our release that these layers could be the decayed top-tier remains of the Ark, I was describing the hypothesis we are testing, not a finding.”
The second one has this to say:
“But some of the most important work of the 2026 investigation is still ahead.” The group added: “Hundreds of samples collected from the Durupınar formation are now awaiting detailed laboratory analysis…
There is no confirmation that Durupinar is the site of the remains of Noah’s ark. We haven’t watched the videos, but their titles seem to indicate the same thing as the headlines above:
Scientists Confirm: Noah’s Ark Location Found?Noah’s Ark “100% Confirmed” Proof of the Bible
Along with skeptics who challenge these types of headlines and videos:
Noah’s Ark “100% Confirmed”? Where’s the Evidence? This is Embarrassing
We are not saying the leader of Noah’s Ark Scans is saying that they have found the ark’s location. Usually it is people who do not do a lot of critical thinking or investigation behind the information presented to the public by different sources.
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One of the biggest problems anyone has in identifying this site as the landing spot for the ark is that it did not exist in the time of Moses or Noah. We wrote in a previous article that there are at least 11 boat-shaped sites in the area of Durupinar, but they go unnoticed and unmentioned.
What about them? Could any one of them be the actual ark? The only thing that seems to set Durupinar apart from the others is the measurements. Maybe those 11 are not the same size as Durupinar.
The last video also asks one very important question in all of this — where is the evidence? The author of that video states he has not seen any evidence supporting any of the claims made about the site.
We have not seen real evidence either supporting any of the claims, and with the area being younger than Noah, that seems to be the clincher that this is not Noah’s ark landing site. The last video asks a second good question. It concerns the dating of the pottery: How did they date the pottery?
That is a very good question because we do not know what pre-flood pottery looked like. Given their technological advances, pre-flood populations may have used glass, ceramic, and metal plates. It would not be like the post-flood early eras.
Life in the pre-flood world would have progressed as the post-flood world has progressed. It would not remain the same over the approx. 2000 years of existence. This is a problem for the people of Noah’s Ark Scans, as they assume something about the pre-flood world that may not be. {Or those claiming Durupinar has been confirmed as Noah’s ark have assumed}.
What we do not like about the last video is the insults it hurls at those who believe in creation. Those start at the 18-minute mark of the video and continue. It turns out that the video creator is an old-earth believer and does not like the YEC truth.
While he is correct that the dialogue surrounding Durupinar is embarrassing to some Christians, not all Christians (YEC) are jumping onto this bandwagon. Not all Christians will be embarrassed if the site is shown to not be Noah’s ark.
There are many of us who disagree with what is being said about this site and its biblical connection. The reason we disagree is because of all the errors Noah’s Ark Scans and its followers are making.
Originally published at http://theoarch.wordpress.com on November 6, 2026.
