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In Search of Noah's Ark

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This 1976 book by Dave Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier, Jr. (who are also the authors of The Evidence for Heaven (The Faith Evidence Series), The Lincoln Conspiracy, Miraculous Messages/ Includes Book and Bonus DVD (Faith Evidence), Ancient Secrets of The Bible, etc.) was also a movie by Sun Classic Pictures, In Search of Noah's Ark.

It must be observed that the film (and thus the book) is widely considered (even by creationist organizations such as the Institute for Creation Research/ICR) to have contained substantial amounts of misinformation, and even to be a "hoax."

Here are some quotations from the book:

"To this day no one knows exactly what gopherwood is---or was. We can only speculate." (Pg. 122)
"The Bible doesn't say Noah and his sons had to build the Ark without the help of hired men. The Biblical account leaves several questions unanswered. How did Noah finance such a project? How many men did he hire? Did he have trouble getting men? How many years did it take to recruit workers? How many quit because they couldn't take the ridicule? What about sabotage and delays? We can only speculate." (Pg. 126)
"'Two-thirds of the way up the mountain, its bow stood out, black on a background of light-colored rocks,' said (Ferdnand) Navarra. 'But, when we came closer, we found that the bow was only a spur of rock, the same one the monks pointed out from their monastery, without ever having climbed up to verify what it was. We had not discovered the real thing, but we had put an end to a legend." (Pg. 170)
"Recently in America, the University of California released results of a testing procedure conducted on the Navarra wood by means of measuring the Carbon 14 in the wood... All dates obtained varied between 1,250 and 1,700 years---a rather large fluctuation for tests on the same sample and far short of 5,000 years..." (Pg. 185-186)