James Bryce found a 4-foot timber high on Ararat

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 Related claims 6 Acknowledgments

Claim

In 1876, English explorer James Bryce found a four-foot long hand-tooled piece of wood on Ararat at the 13,000 feet level.

Source

• LaHaye, Tim & Morris, John, 1976. The Ark on Ararat, Thomas Nelson Inc. and Creation Life Publishers, Nashville and New York, pp. 51-55.

Responses

1. The existence of a wooden object does not show that it came from the Ark. It would have to be shown firstly that the wood is not native to that area, secondly that it is old enough to be from the Ark and thirdly that it was probably used in the Ark rather than some other wooden structure from that era. No such investigations have been done.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

• Affirming the Consequent (if Noah's Ark existed, there would be wood on the mountain. There is wood, thus Noah's Ark existed)
• Begging the Question (why should this piece of wood be from the Ark?)

Related claims

• Noah's Ark has been found
• We can expect to find Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat
• Noah's Ark may have been photographed on Ararat in 1949
• ERTS satellite photographed Noah's Ark in 1973
• Noah's Ark has been found near Dogubayazit, Turkey
• Anchor stones of Noah's Ark have been found
• The Turkish government officially recognized the site of Noah's Ark
• Navarra retrieved hand-hewn wood from high on Ararat
• Hardwicke Knight found soft wood timbers on Ararat
• Yearam guided 3 vile scientists to Noah's Ark in 1916
• An 1883 Turkish expedition found Noah's Ark
• Prince Nouri of Baghdad found the Ark in 1887
• Hagopian visited the Ark with his uncle around 1908
• Russian aviator Roskovitsky photographed the Ark
• Resit, a Kurdish farmer, found the Ark in 1948

Acknowledgments