{"id":103,"date":"2011-08-01T07:52:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T06:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kmatthews.org.uk\/?p=103"},"modified":"2011-08-01T07:52:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T06:52:40","slug":"it%e2%80%99s-hardly-a-surprise%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kmatthews.org.uk\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s hardly a surprise\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bad<\/p>\n

By Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews<\/a><\/p>\n

The notorious Noah’s Ark Ministries ‘discovery’ of the well-preserved remains of the Ark<\/a> have been outed as a hoax, not that it should come as a surprise. A letter to Dr Randall Price<\/a> from two Kurdish brothers has been published on the web. In it, they say that they helped to construct the remains, which they had been told were to be used for a film set.<\/p>\n

As others have pointed out<\/a>, the story had a strange feeling to it from the outset. On wonders how much money Noah’s Ark Ministries International Ltd.<\/a> has made from this scam. It may be no coincidence that the group’s website has not been updated since the initial announcement in 2010.<\/p>\n

Hat tip to PaleoBabble<\/a> for the link!<\/p>\n

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By Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews The notorious Noah’s Ark Ministries ‘discovery’ of the well-preserved remains of the Ark have been outed as a hoax, not that it should come as a surprise. A letter to Dr Randall Price from two Kurdish brothers has been published on the web. In it, they say that they helped to construct […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17eR9-1F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kmatthews.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kmatthews.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kmatthews.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kmatthews.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kmatthews.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kmatthews.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kmatthews.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kmatthews.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kmatthews.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}