Satellite closes in on Noah's Ark mystery

CNN.com is printing a story by Space.com about Noah's Ark, and satellite images which depict an object that allegedly resemble the dimensions of Noah's Ark.

High on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, there is a baffling mountainside "anomaly," a feature that one researcher claims may be something of biblical proportions.

Images taken by aircraft, intelligence-gathering satellites and commercial remote-sensing spacecraft are fueling an intensive study of the intriguing oddity. But whether the anomaly is some geological quirk of nature, playful shadows, a human-made structure of some sort, or simply nothing at all remains to be seen.

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The Genesis blueprint of the Ark detailed the structure as 6:1 length to width ratio (300 cubits by 50 cubits). The anomaly, as viewed by satellite, is close to that 6:1 proportion.

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"We've got three new birds [satellites] that are going up. I'm using all my clout, rapport and lobbying to, hopefully, have them at least fly calibration runs over Mount Ararat," Taylor said. Those images would make the mountain even more transparent, he said.

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(The complete story can be found here.)

Personally, I do not believe that man will ever find Noah's Ark because I believe that God wants us to trust that He exists and that His word is true. "Without faith it is impossible to please Him" (Heb. 11:6). "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Heb. 11:1). "Whatever is not from faith is sin" (Rom. 14:23).

Finding evidence as incredible as Noah's Ark, or the Ark of the Covenant, would for too many remove all doubt as to the existence of God, and whether the Bible is true. God wants us to believe what we cannot see (Heb. 11:1).

For the same reasons, I believe man will never prove that the Shroud of Turin is Christ's burial cloth, or that man will never be capable of traveling through time. Could you imagine Christ or Paul dealing with time traveling tourists?

"Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed" (John 20:29).

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