Statement of Noah’s Ark Ministries International (NAMI) on Randall Price’s recently released document “The Alleged Discovery of a Wooden Structure on Mt. Ararat by a Chinese-Turkish Expedition that is claimed to be the Remains of Noah’s Ark”

In response to the recent reporting on the doubts of the discovery of the wooden structure on Mount Ararat by Noah’s Ark Ministries International (NAMI) and Turkish research team, based on the personal opinion and letter released by Randall Price, NAMI would like to clarify our stand in it.

1. NAMI worked with Randall Price for a short period in Turkey about 2 weeks in 2008 but we have never climbed the mountain together with him. His letter mentioned that he has “difficulties with a number of issues related to the evidence at hand….”.  We are not sure about what kind of evidence he has because he had never been in the location of the wooden structure we identified. We had terminated co-operation with him in early October 2008. He neither got update about Panda’s trip in late October 2008 nor all our expeditions ever after. We regret that because he is an archeologist and would have helped the team in interpreting the finding.
   
   
2. Everyone has ever climbed Mount Ararat would know the terrain above 3,800m is so rugged that you cannot carry anything more than a backpack. We have communicated to Mr. Muhsin Bulut, the Director of Cultural Ministries, Agri Province, where Mount Ararat locates and sought his opinion about the possibility of transporting a lot of timber and planting a large wood structure high on an altitude of 4,000m. He assured us that the mountain is a restricted area and strictly monitored; therefore, such an act was impossible.
   
   
3. We have received many feedbacks and emails from different Ark researchers so far. Some of them we know and some we don’t. Most of them show great interest and positive towards this discovery.

We welcome different opinions on the search of Noah’s Ark. To provide a channel for the public to get to know a more complete picture and unfold stories behind the discovery, our official website www.noahsarksearch.net will have feature interviews with our research team members and experts from different areas to share their opinions and provide much more updated information about ark search.

Noah’s Ark Ministries International
April 30, 2010

P.S. We would also like to clarify that NAMI has not officially invited another scientist John Morris as the consultant for the ark search even we did have a meeting with him once in 2005.