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|birth_name = David Franklin Fasold |
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'''David Franklin Fasold''' (February 23, 1939 – April 26, 1998) was a [[United States Merchant Marine]] officer and salvage expert who is best known for his 1988 book ''The Ark of Noah'', chronicling his early expeditions to the [[Durupınar site|Durupınar]] [[Noah's Ark]] site in eastern Turkey. |
'''David Franklin Fasold''' (February 23, 1939 – April 26, 1998) was a [[United States Merchant Marine]] officer and salvage expert who is best known for his 1988 book ''The Ark of Noah'', chronicling his early expeditions to the [[Durupınar site|Durupınar]] [[Noah's Ark]] site in eastern Turkey. Repudiating and then changing his views about the site, Fasold was a participant in a suit with [[Australians|Australian]] [[geologist]] and [[skeptic]] [[Ian Plimer]] against an Australian [[Creationism|creationist]] group. The suit, dubbed the "[[Scopes Trial|Monkey Trial]] II,"<ref name =TDN>{{Cite news |
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| newspaper = Turkish Daily News |
| newspaper = Turkish Daily News |
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| year = 1997 |
| year = 1997 |
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| url = http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/archives.php?id=2524 |
| url = http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/archives.php?id=2524 |
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}}{{Dead link|date=April 2009|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> was a notable case in the [[creation–evolution controversy|debate between science and religion]] and its role in society. |
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==Biography and marine career== |
==Biography and marine career== |
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Fasold was born in [[Chicago]] in 1939 and grew up in [[Wheaton, Illinois]], son of Frank, an [[architect]], and Ruth Fasold, who raised him as strict [[Plymouth Brethren]]. In 1957 he joined the [[United States Merchant Marine]] becoming an officer and traveling the world. He met his wife Anna Elizabeth Avila, from [[El Salvador]], in [[San Jose, California]], in the 1950s. After beginning a family he moved to [[Key West]], [[Florida]], where Fasold built up a respectable [[marine salvage]] company. In the 1970s and 1980s he assisted various marine [[Treasure hunting|treasure hunters]], including [[Mel Fisher]]. |
Fasold was born in [[Chicago]] in 1939 and grew up in [[Wheaton, Illinois]], son of Frank, an [[architect]], and Ruth Fasold, who raised him as strict [[Plymouth Brethren]]. In 1957 he joined the [[United States Merchant Marine]] becoming an officer and traveling the world. He met his wife Anna Elizabeth Avila, from [[El Salvador]], in [[San Jose, California]], in the 1950s. After beginning a family he moved to [[Key West]], [[Florida]], where Fasold built up a respectable [[marine salvage]] company. In the 1970s and 1980s he assisted various marine [[Treasure hunting|treasure hunters]], including [[Mel Fisher]].<ref name=Dawes>{{Cite book | last = Dawes | first = June | title = Noah's Ark: Adrift in Dark Waters | publisher = Noahide | year = 2000 | location = Belrose, NSW | isbn = 0-646-40228-5}}</ref>{{rp|10–11}} |
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Fasold owned a photograph album showing the state visit of [[Benito Mussolini]] to [[Adolf Hitler]]'s [[Nazi Germany]] that was published in 1970 as ''The Hitler Albums: Mussolini's State Visit to Germany, Sept. 25-29, 1937'', with editorial assistance by Roger James Bender.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Fasold | first1=David F. | last2=Bender | first2=Roger James. | title=The Hitler Albums: Mussolini's State Visit to Germany, Sept. 25–29, 1937 | publisher=R. James Bender Publishing | year=1970 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FidXcgAACAAJ | access-date=2022-10-28}}</ref> |
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| title = Noah's Ark: Adrift in Dark Waters |
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He raised two sons, Nathan and Michael, before dying of [[cancer]] in [[Corvallis, Oregon]], on April 26, 1998, financially broken from years of expeditions and research.<ref name=Dawes/>{{rp|184–185}} |
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| publisher = Noahide |
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| year = 2000 |
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==Durupınar site== |
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| location = Belrose, NSW |
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{{Main|Durupınar site}} |
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| isbn = 0-646-40228-5}}</ref>{{rp|10–11, 184–185}} |
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==Durupınar Site== |
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Always interested in the history of the [[Bible]] and [[Noah's Ark]], Fasold studied pre-Christian accounts of the [[Deluge (mythology)|Deluge]] and came to believe that the ark would be found not on [[Mount Ararat]] but somewhere to the southwest. In 1985, Fasold teamed up with [[Ron Wyatt]] to investigate the [[Durupınar site]] (located at approximately {{Coord|39|26|26.26|N|44|14|04.26|E|type:landmark}}), a boat-shaped mound site named after [[Turkish Army]] Captain İlhan Durupınar who identified the formation in a [[Turkish Air Force]] aerial photo while on a mapping mission for [[NATO]] in 1959.<ref name=Dawes/> |
Always interested in the history of the [[Bible]] and [[Noah's Ark]], Fasold studied pre-Christian accounts of the [[Deluge (mythology)|Deluge]] and came to believe that the ark would be found not on [[Mount Ararat]] but somewhere to the southwest. In 1985, Fasold teamed up with [[Ron Wyatt]] to investigate the [[Durupınar site]] (located at approximately {{Coord|39|26|26.26|N|44|14|04.26|E|type:landmark}}), a boat-shaped mound site named after [[Turkish Army]] Captain İlhan Durupınar who identified the formation in a [[Turkish Air Force]] aerial photo while on a mapping mission for [[NATO]] in 1959.<ref name=Dawes/> |
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<ref name = Fasold >{{Cite book| last = Fasold | first = David | date = 1 March 1989 | title = The Ark of Noah | publisher = Wynwood Press | url = https://archive.org/details/arkofnoah00faso |
<ref name = Fasold >{{Cite book| last = Fasold | first = David | date = 1 March 1989 | title = The Ark of Noah | publisher = Wynwood Press | url = https://archive.org/details/arkofnoah00faso |
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| location = Bonners Ferry, ID | isbn = 978-0922066100 | pages = 331}} Other sections discuss Fasold's introduction to the ark and the clues he followed in [[Berossus]] to locate the ark.</ref><ref>{{Cite book| last = Fasold | first = David | date = 19 April 1990 | title = The Discovery of Noah's Ark | publisher = |
| location = Bonners Ferry, ID | isbn = 978-0922066100 | pages = 331}} Other sections discuss Fasold's introduction to the ark and the clues he followed in [[Berossus]] to locate the ark.</ref><ref>{{Cite book| last = Fasold | first = David | date = 19 April 1990 | title = The Discovery of Noah's Ark | publisher = Pan Macmillan imprint Sidgwick & Jackson | url = |
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https://www.amazon.com/s?k=david+fasold&rh=n%3A283155&ref=nb_sb_noss | location = Basingstoke, Hamps, southern England | isbn = 978-0283060069 | pages = 352}}</ref> |
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=david+fasold&rh=n%3A283155&ref=nb_sb_noss | location = Basingstoke, Hamps, southern England | isbn = 978-0283060069 | pages = 352}}</ref> |
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In 1985, Fasold and Wyatt were joined by [[geophysicist]] [[John Baumgardner]] for the expedition recounted in Fasold's 1988 book ''The Ark of Noah''. As soon as Fasold saw the site, he exclaimed that it was a ship wreck. Fasold had brought a state-of-the-art [[frequency generator]], set on the wavelength for [[iron]] and searched the formation for internal iron loci. This technique was later compared to [[dowsing]] by the site's detractors. Fasold and the team measured the length of the formation as 538 feet, close to the 300 [[cubits]] of the [[Bible]] if the [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] cubit of 20.6 inches is used. Later measurements by others found it to be 515 feet, exactly 300 |
In 1985, Fasold and Wyatt were joined by [[geophysicist]] [[John Baumgardner]] for the expedition recounted in Fasold's 1988 book ''The Ark of Noah''. As soon as Fasold saw the site, he exclaimed that it was a ship wreck. Fasold had brought a state-of-the-art [[frequency generator]], set on the wavelength for [[iron]] and searched the formation for internal iron loci. This technique was later compared to [[dowsing]] by the site's detractors. Fasold and the team measured the length of the formation as 538 feet, close to the 300 [[cubits]] of the [[Bible]] if the [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] cubit of 20.6 inches is used. Later measurements by others found it to be 515 feet, exactly 300 Egyptian cubits in length. Fasold believed the team had found the fossilized remains of the upper deck and that the original reed substructure has disappeared. In the nearby village of Kazan (formerly called Arzap), so-called [[Arzap Drogue Stones|drogue]] stones that they believed were once attached to the ark were investigated.<ref name =Fasold/><ref name =Berlitz>{{Cite book| last = Berlitz | first = Charles | title = The Lost Ship of Noah | publisher = Putnam | location = New York | pages = 51–61,157–162 | year = 1987 | isbn = 0-399-13182-5 }}</ref><ref name =Wyatt>{{Cite book | last = Wyatt | first = Ron | title = Discovered: Noah's Ark! | publisher = World Bible Society | year = 1989 | location = Nashville | isbn = 0-942521-43-9}}</ref> |
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| title = Discovered: Noah's Ark! |
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| publisher = World Bible Society |
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| year = 1989 |
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| isbn = 0-942521-43-9}}</ref> |
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===''The Ark of Noah'' and the break with Wyatt=== |
===''The Ark of Noah'' and the break with Wyatt=== |
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Ron Wyatt and David Fasold were both featured on a [[20/20 (US television series)|20/20]] television special soon after their expedition. [[Charles Berlitz]] wrote of Fasold's searches in his 1987 book ''The Lost Ship of Noah'', also printing part of an extensive 1985 interview with Fasold on pages 157-161.<ref name =Berlitz/> Wyatt wrote a small booklet, presenting his evidence found at the site, including what he considered petrified wood from deck timbers, pitch, and metal rivets.<ref name =Wyatt/> Fasold took a different approach, concentrating on [[pre-biblical]] literature and, as a nautical engineer, recognized the likelihood that it was made, like other ancient large boats and rafts, of reeds. He concluded that the enigmatic "gopher wood" of Genesis 6:14 was in fact a covering of [[bitumen]] and [[Phragmites|reeds]], and the words was related to ''kaphar'' or [[Pitch (resin)|pitch]] . He also made the claim that there were two [[Dilmun]]s, one located on [[Bahrain]] and the original one in the [[Zagros]] mountains.<ref>Fasold makes this claim in pp. 206-211 of ''The Ark of Noah'', years before archaeologist [[David Rohl]] did in chapter eight of his book ''Legend: The Genesis of Civilisation''. There are other similarities between their theories, though arrived at by different methodologies.</ref> In 1988, Fasold published his own book, ''The Ark of Noah''.<ref name =Fasold/> |
Ron Wyatt and David Fasold were both featured on a [[20/20 (US television series)|20/20]] television special soon after their expedition. [[Charles Berlitz]] wrote of Fasold's searches in his 1987 book ''The Lost Ship of Noah'', also printing part of an extensive 1985 interview with Fasold on pages 157-161.<ref name =Berlitz/> Wyatt wrote a small booklet, presenting his evidence found at the site, including what he considered petrified wood from deck timbers, pitch, and metal rivets.<ref name =Wyatt/> Fasold took a different approach, concentrating on [[pre-biblical]] literature and, as a nautical engineer, recognized the likelihood that it was made, like other ancient large boats and rafts, of reeds. He concluded that the enigmatic "gopher wood" of Genesis 6:14 was in fact a covering of [[bitumen]] and [[Phragmites|reeds]], and the words was related to ''kaphar'' or [[Pitch (resin)|pitch]] . He also made the claim that there were two [[Dilmun]]s, one located on [[Bahrain]] and the original one in the [[Zagros]] mountains.<ref>Fasold makes this claim in pp. 206-211 of ''The Ark of Noah'', years before archaeologist [[David Rohl]] did in chapter eight of his book ''Legend: The Genesis of Civilisation''. There are other similarities between their theories, though arrived at by different methodologies.</ref> In 1988, Fasold published his own book, ''The Ark of Noah''.<ref name =Fasold/> |
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In ''The Ark of Noah'', Fasold took many [[fundamentalists]] and creationists to task for insisting that the ark was rectangular in shape, made of wood, and must have landed on Mount Ararat (when the Bible states "the mountains of Ararat"). He also critically examined and dismissed many previous ark sightings at Ararat. The exposure of his find in the media led to further expeditions to the site in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During this time, Wyatt supposedly discovered petrified wood and metal items, and exposed the remains of decayed rib timbers at the site. Fasold doubted many of Wyatt's claims during this time, and broke with Wyatt's interpretations.<ref name =Fasold/><ref name=Deal>{{Cite book| last = Deal | first = David Allen | title = Noah's Ark: The Evidence | publisher = Artisan | location = Muscogee, OK | pages = 45–46 | year = 2005 | isbn = 0-933677-02-2}}</ref> During this time, Fasold formed the Noahide Society and issued a newsletter called ''Ark-Update''.<ref name=Dawes/>{{rp|11}}<ref name="Wilson 2002 36–39">{{Cite book | last = Wilson | first = Ian | title = Before the Flood | publisher = St. Martin's Press | location = New York | pages = [https://archive.org/details/beforefloodbibli00wils/page/36 36–39] | year = 2002 | isbn = 0-312-30400-5 | url = https://archive.org/details/beforefloodbibli00wils/page/36 }}</ref> He also produced several audio and video tapes.<ref>Like, for instance, {{cite video |
In ''The Ark of Noah'', Fasold took many [[fundamentalists]] and creationists to task for insisting that the ark was rectangular in shape, made of wood, and must have landed on Mount Ararat (when the Bible states "the mountains of Ararat"). He also critically examined and dismissed many previous ark sightings at Ararat. The exposure of his find in the media led to further expeditions to the site in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During this time, Wyatt supposedly discovered petrified wood and metal items, and exposed the remains of decayed rib timbers at the site. Fasold doubted many of Wyatt's claims during this time, and broke with Wyatt's interpretations.<ref name =Fasold/><ref name=Deal>{{Cite book| last = Deal | first = David Allen | title = Noah's Ark: The Evidence | publisher = Artisan | location = Muscogee, OK | pages = 45–46 | year = 2005 | isbn = 0-933677-02-2}}</ref> During this time, Fasold formed the Noahide Society and issued a newsletter called ''Ark-Update''.<ref name=Dawes/>{{rp|11}}<ref name="Wilson 2002 36–39">{{Cite book | last = Wilson | first = Ian | title = Before the Flood | publisher = St. Martin's Press | location = New York | pages = [https://archive.org/details/beforefloodbibli00wils/page/36 36–39] | year = 2002 | isbn = 0-312-30400-5 | url = https://archive.org/details/beforefloodbibli00wils/page/36 }}</ref> He also produced several audio and video tapes.<ref>Like, for instance, {{cite video | title = The Discovery of Noah's Ark | medium = VHS, DVD | publisher = American Media | location = Westlake Village, CA | date = 1993}}</ref> |
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| title = The Discovery of Noah's Ark |
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| location = Westlake Village, CA |
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| date = 1993}}</ref> |
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===Doubts and changing views=== |
===Doubts and changing views=== |
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During the 1990s, Fasold was caught between three opposing camps, all of whom derided his interest in the site: orthodox creationists who believed the ark could only lie on Mount Ararat; Wyatt and others who continued their research and reported significant discoveries; and skeptical geologists and biblical minimalists who called the site a hoax.<ref name=Dawes/>{{rp|95–127}} |
During the 1990s, Fasold was caught between three opposing camps, all of whom derided his interest in the site: orthodox creationists who believed the ark could only lie on Mount Ararat; Wyatt and others who continued their research and reported significant discoveries; and skeptical geologists and biblical minimalists who called the site a hoax.<ref name=Dawes/>{{rp|95–127}} |
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After a few expeditions to the Durupınar site that included drillings and excavation in the 1990s, Fasold began to have doubts that the Durupınar formation was Noah's ark. Following a September 1994 site visit with geologist [[Ian Plimer]], he noted: "I believe this may be the oldest running hoax in history. I think we have found what the ancients said was the Ark, but this structure is not Noah's Ark."<ref name =Pockley>{{Cite news | last = Pockley | first = Peter | title = Theory blown out of the water | newspaper = Australian Sun-Herald | date = 6 November 1994 }}</ref> At other times he claimed that the site was only what the ancients ''believed'' was [[Ziusudra]]'s 'ark of reeds'.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Sellier | first = Charles | author2 = David Balsiger | title = The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark | publisher = Dell | location = New York | pages = [https://archive.org/details/incrediblediscov0000sell/page/269 269–293] | year = 1995 | isbn = 0-440-21799-7 | url = https://archive.org/details/incrediblediscov0000sell/page/269 }}</ref> In 1996 Fasold coauthored a paper with geologist Lorence Collins entitled "Bogus 'Noah's Ark' from Turkey Exposed as a Common Geologic Structure" that concluded the boat-shaped formation was a curious upswelling of mud that [[Pareidolia|happened to look like a boat]].<ref name="Collins & Fasold 1996">{{Cite journal |first1=Lorence D. |last1=Collins |first2=David |last2=Fasold |title=Bogus 'Noah's Ark' from Turkey Exposed as a Common Geologic Structure |journal=Journal of Geoscience Education |year=1996 |volume=44 |issue=4 |hdl=10211.2/3026 |pages=439–44|doi=10.5408/1089-9995-44.4.439 |bibcode=1996JGeEd..44..439C }} [http://www.csun.edu/~vcgeo005/bogus.html Full text]</ref> In April 1997 during his testimony in an Australian court case Fasold repudiated his belief in the Ark, and stated that he regarded the claim as "absolute BS".<ref name= Clifton>{{Cite news| last = Clifton | first = Brad | title = Doubts sank faith in Ark| newspaper = [[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)]] | date = 9 April 1997 }}</ref><ref name= Thomson>{{Cite news| last = Thomson| first =Kirstyn | title = Witness Tells How Ark Faith Sank| newspaper = The West Australian | date = 9 April 1997 }}</ref><ref name =Finkel>{{Cite journal | last = Finkel | first = Elizabeth | title = Creationism Suit: Australian Geologist Battles 'Ark' Claim | journal = Science | volume = 276 | issue = 5311 | pages = 348 | date = 18 April 1997 | doi = 10.1126/science.276.5311.348 | s2cid = 159636408}}</ref> |
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After a few expeditions to the Durupınar site that included drillings and excavation in the 1990s, Fasold began to have doubts that the Durupınar formation was Noah's ark. Following a September 1994 site visit with geologist [[Ian Plimer]], he noted: "I believe this may be the oldest running hoax in history. I think we have found what the ancients said was the Ark, but this structure is not Noah's Ark."<ref name =Pockley>{{Cite news |
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}}</ref> At other times he claimed that the site was only what the ancients ''believed'' was [[Ziusudra]]'s 'ark of reeds'.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Sellier | first = Charles | author2 = David Balsiger | title = The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark | publisher = Dell | location = New York | pages = [https://archive.org/details/incrediblediscov0000sell/page/269 269–293] | year = 1995 | isbn = 0-440-21799-7 | url = https://archive.org/details/incrediblediscov0000sell/page/269 }}</ref> In 1996 Fasold coauthored a paper with geologist Lorence Collins entitled "Bogus 'Noah's Ark' from Turkey Exposed as a Common Geologic Structure" that concluded the boat-shaped formation was a curious upswelling of mud that [[Pareidolia|happened to look like a boat]].<ref name="Collins & Fasold 1996">{{Cite journal |first1=Lorence D. |last1=Collins |first2=David |last2=Fasold |title=Bogus 'Noah's Ark' from Turkey Exposed as a Common Geologic Structure |journal=Journal of Geoscience Education |year=1996 |volume=44 |issue=4 |hdl=10211.2/3026 |pages=439–44|doi=10.5408/1089-9995-44.4.439 |bibcode=1996JGeEd..44..439C }} [http://www.csun.edu/~vcgeo005/bogus.html full text]</ref> In April 1997 during his testimony in an Australian court case Fasold repudiated his belief in the Ark, and stated that he regarded the claim as "absolute BS".<ref name= Clifton>{{Cite news| last = Clifton | first = Brad | title = Doubts sank faith in Ark| newspaper = [[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)]] | date = 9 April 1997 }}</ref><ref name= Thomson>{{Cite news| last = Thomson| first =Kirstyn | title = Witness Tells How Ark Faith Sank| newspaper = The West Australian | date = 9 April 1997 }}</ref><ref name =Finkel>{{Cite journal |
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| title = Creationism Suit: Australian Geologist Battles 'Ark' Claim |
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| date = 18 April 1997 |
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Ark researchers David Allen Deal<ref name=Deal/> and [[Robert Michelson]],<ref>{{cite book | last = Corbin | first = B. J. | title = The Explorers of Ararat and the Search for Noah's Ark | publisher = Great Commission Illustrated Books | location = Long Beach, CA | year = 1999 | isbn = 0965346986 | page = 429}}</ref> and Australian friend and biographer June Dawes<ref name=Dawes/>{{rp|184}} reported that before his 1998 death Fasold again claimed the Durupınar site to be the location of the ark. Dawes wrote: |
Ark researchers David Allen Deal<ref name=Deal/> and [[Robert Michelson]],<ref>{{cite book | last = Corbin | first = B. J. | title = The Explorers of Ararat and the Search for Noah's Ark | publisher = Great Commission Illustrated Books | location = Long Beach, CA | year = 1999 | isbn = 0965346986 | page = 429}}</ref> and Australian friend and biographer June Dawes<ref name=Dawes/>{{rp|184}} reported that before his 1998 death Fasold again claimed the Durupınar site to be the location of the ark. Dawes wrote: |
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<blockquote>He [Fasold] kept repeating that no matter what the experts said, there was too much going for the [Durupınar] site for it to be dismissed. He remained convinced it was the fossilized remains of Noah's Ark.<ref name=Dawes/>{{rp|184}}</blockquote> |
<blockquote>He [Fasold] kept repeating that no matter what the experts said, there was too much going for the [Durupınar] site for it to be dismissed. He remained convinced it was the fossilized remains of Noah's Ark.<ref name=Dawes/>{{rp|184}}</blockquote> |
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==Jabal al-Lawz== |
==Jabal al-Lawz as Mount Sinai== |
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In 1986 Fasold, along with [[Ron Wyatt]], was one of the first [[United States|Americans]] to investigate the notion that [[Jabal al-Lawz]] in [[Saudi Arabia]] might be the [[Biblical Mount Sinai]]. During an illegal trek through the desert around the mountain, Wyatt and Fasold were arrested and detained for a short period. Former ''[[New York Times]]'' journalist [[Howard Blum]] wrote of Fasold's journeys in his 1998 book ''The Gold of Exodus''. |
In 1986 Fasold, along with [[Ron Wyatt]], was one of the first [[United States|Americans]] to investigate the notion that [[Jabal al-Lawz]] in [[Saudi Arabia]] might be the [[Biblical Mount Sinai]]. During an illegal trek through the desert around the mountain, Wyatt and Fasold were arrested and detained for a short period.<ref name=Dawes/>{{rp|47–62}} Former ''[[New York Times]]'' journalist [[Howard Blum]] wrote of Fasold's journeys in his 1998 book ''The Gold of Exodus''.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Blum | first = Howard | title = The Gold of Exodus: The Discovery of the True Mount Sinai | publisher = Simon & Schuster | location = New York | pages = [https://archive.org/details/goldofexodusdisc00blum/page/44 44–59] | year = 1998 | isbn = 0-684-80918-4 | url = https://archive.org/details/goldofexodusdisc00blum/page/44 }}</ref> |
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==Plimer case== |
==Plimer case== |
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In 1997, Fasold was involved in an Australian lawsuit against creationist Allen Roberts, who reproduced some of Fasold's artwork without permission. Co-plaintiff [[Ian Plimer]], an Australian [[secular humanism|humanist]] and [[skeptic]], sued Roberts' organization Ark Search under the [[Competition and Consumer Act 2010|Fair Trading Act]], alleging that they had made [[false and misleading claim]]s about the Durupinar site. The case, touted as a second [[Scopes Monkey Trial]],{{citation needed|date=November 2019}} failed, with Judge Ron Sackville ruling: "Courts should not attempt to provide a remedy for every false or misleading statement made in the course of public debate on matters of general interest." Fasold described the award of $2,500 [[Australian dollars]] in damages as for [[copyright infringement]] as "a slap in the face."<ref name=TDN/><ref name="Wilson 2002 36–39" /><ref name =Finkel/><ref>{{Cite journal |
In 1997, Fasold was involved in an Australian lawsuit against creationist Allen Roberts, who reproduced some of Fasold's artwork without permission. Co-plaintiff [[Ian Plimer]], an Australian [[secular humanism|humanist]] and [[skeptic]], sued Roberts's organization Ark Search under the [[Competition and Consumer Act 2010|Fair Trading Act]], alleging that they had made [[false and misleading claim]]s about the Durupinar site. The case, touted as a second [[Scopes Monkey Trial]],{{citation needed|date=November 2019}} failed, with Judge Ron Sackville ruling: "Courts should not attempt to provide a remedy for every false or misleading statement made in the course of public debate on matters of general interest." Fasold described the award of $2,500 [[Australian dollars]] in damages as for [[copyright infringement]] as "a slap in the face."<ref name=TDN/><ref name="Wilson 2002 36–39" /><ref name =Finkel/><ref>{{Cite journal | last = Finkel | first = Elizabeth | title = Ark Claim Survives Court Fight | journal = Science | volume = 276 | issue = 5318 | pages = 1493–4 | date = 6 June 1997 | doi = 10.1126/science.276.5318.1493a | pmid = 9190684 | s2cid = 153263169}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last = Pockley | first = Peter | title = Geologist Loses 'Creationism' Challenge | journal = Nature | volume = 387 | issue = 6633 | pages = 540 | date = 5 June 1997 | doi = 10.1038/42331 | pmid = 9177329 |bibcode = 1997Natur.387..540P | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| last = Coleman | first = Simon | title = The Cultures of Creationism | publisher = Ashgate | location = Aldershot | year = 2004 | isbn = 0-7546-0912-X | page = 116 }}</ref> |
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* {{cite book | last1=Fasold | first1=David F. | last2=Bender | first2=Roger James. | title=The Hitler Albums: Mussolini's State Visit to Germany, Sept. 25-29, 1937 | publisher=R. James Bender Publishing | year=1970 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FidXcgAACAAJ }} |
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* {{Cite book| last = Fasold | first = David | date = 1989 | title = The Ark of Noah | publisher = Wynwood Press | url = https://archive.org/details/arkofnoah00faso |
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* {{Cite book| last = Fasold | first = David | date = 1990 | title = The Discovery of Noah's Ark | publisher = Pan Macmillan imprint Sidgwick & Jackson | url = |
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*{{Cite journal |first1=Lorence D. |last1=Collins |first2=David |last2=Fasold |title=Bogus 'Noah's Ark' from Turkey Exposed as a Common Geologic Structure |journal=Journal of Geoscience Education |year=1996 |volume=44 |issue=4 |hdl=10211.2/3026 |pages=439–44|doi=10.5408/1089-9995-44.4.439 |bibcode=1996JGeEd..44..439C }} [http://www.csun.edu/~vcgeo005/bogus.html Full text] |
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*{{Cite video | people = Fasold, David | title = The Discovery of Noah's Ark | medium = Documentary | publisher = American Media | location = Westlake Village, CA | date = 1993}} |
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*{{Cite video | people= Plimer, Ian, and David Fasold | date= 1994 | title= Crusaders for the Lost Ark | medium= Documentary | location=Sydney | publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corp.}} |
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*{{Cite book| last = Berlitz| author-link = Charles Berlitz| first = Charles | title = The Lost Ship of Noah | publisher = Putnam | location = New York | year = 1987 | isbn = 0-399-13182-5 }} |
*{{Cite book| last = Berlitz| author-link = Charles Berlitz| first = Charles | title = The Lost Ship of Noah | publisher = Putnam | location = New York | year = 1987 | isbn = 0-399-13182-5 }} |
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*{{Cite book | last = Blum | first = Howard | title = The Gold of Exodus: The Discovery of the True Mount Sinai | publisher = Simon & Schuster | location = New York | year = 1998 | isbn = 0-684-80918-4 | url = https://archive.org/details/goldofexodusdisc00blum }} |
*{{Cite book | last = Blum | first = Howard | title = The Gold of Exodus: The Discovery of the True Mount Sinai | publisher = Simon & Schuster | location = New York | year = 1998 | isbn = 0-684-80918-4 | url = https://archive.org/details/goldofexodusdisc00blum }} |
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*{{Cite book| last = Coleman | first = Simon | title = The Cultures of Creationism | publisher = Ashgate | location = Aldershot | year = 2004 | isbn = 0-7546-0912-X }} |
*{{Cite book| last = Coleman | first = Simon | title = The Cultures of Creationism | publisher = Ashgate | location = Aldershot | year = 2004 | isbn = 0-7546-0912-X }} |
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*{{Cite book | last = Dawes | first = June | title = Noah's Ark: Adrift in Dark Waters | publisher = Noahide | year = 2000 | location = Belrose, NSW | isbn = 0-646-40228-5}} |
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*{{Cite book| last = Deal | first = David Allen | title = Noah's Ark: The Evidence | publisher = Artisan | location = Muscogee, OK | year = 2005 | isbn = 0-933677-02-2}} |
*{{Cite book| last = Deal | first = David Allen | title = Noah's Ark: The Evidence | publisher = Artisan | location = Muscogee, OK | year = 2005 | isbn = 0-933677-02-2}} |
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*{{Cite book | last = Fasold | first = David | title = The Ark of Noah | publisher = Wynwood | year = 1988 | location = New York | url = https://archive.org/details/arkofnoah00faso | isbn = 0-922066-10-8 }} |
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*{{Cite book| last = Nissen | first = Henri | title = Noah's Ark Uncovered: An Expedition into the Ancient Past | publisher = Scandinavia Publishing House | location = City | year = 2005 | isbn = 87-7247-813-6 }} |
*{{Cite book| last = Nissen | first = Henri | title = Noah's Ark Uncovered: An Expedition into the Ancient Past | publisher = Scandinavia Publishing House | location = City | year = 2005 | isbn = 87-7247-813-6 }} |
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*{{Cite book | last = Sellier | first = Charles | author2 = David Balsiger | title = The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark | publisher = Dell | location = New York | year = 1995 | isbn = 0-440-21799-7 | url = https://archive.org/details/incrediblediscov0000sell }} |
*{{Cite book | last = Sellier | first = Charles | author2 = David Balsiger | title = The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark | publisher = Dell | location = New York | year = 1995 | isbn = 0-440-21799-7 | url = https://archive.org/details/incrediblediscov0000sell }} |
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*{{Cite book | last = Wilson | author-link = Ian Wilson (Christianity) | first = Ian | title = Before the Flood | publisher = St. Martin's Press | location = New York | year = 2002 | isbn = 0-312-30400-5 | url = https://archive.org/details/beforefloodbibli00wils }} |
*{{Cite book | last = Wilson | author-link = Ian Wilson (Christianity) | first = Ian | title = Before the Flood | publisher = St. Martin's Press | location = New York | year = 2002 | isbn = 0-312-30400-5 | url = https://archive.org/details/beforefloodbibli00wils }} |
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*{{Cite book | last = Wyatt | first = Ron | title = Discovered: Noah's Ark! | publisher = World Bible Society | year = 1989 | location = Nashville | isbn = 0-942521-43-9}} |
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*{{Cite journal | last = Finkel | first = Elizabeth | title = Ark Claim Survives Court Fight | journal = Science | volume = 276 | issue = 5318 | pages = 1493–4 | date = 6 June 1997 | doi = 10.1126/science.276.5318.1493a | pmid = 9190684 | s2cid = 153263169}} |
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*{{Cite journal | last = Finkel | first = Elizabeth | title = Creationism Suit: Australian Geologist Battles 'Ark' Claim | journal = Science | volume = 276 | issue = 5311 | pages = 348 | date = 18 April 1997 | doi = 10.1126/science.276.5311.348 | s2cid = 159636408}} |
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*{{Cite news | title = Noah battles Darwin in Australian courtroom | newspaper = Turkish Daily News | date = 14 April 1997 }} |
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*{{Cite journal | last = Pockley | first = Peter | title = Geologist Loses 'Creationism' Challenge | journal = Nature | volume = 387 | issue = 6633 | pages = 540 | date = 5 June 1997 | doi = 10.1038/42331 | pmid = 9177329 |bibcode = 1997Natur.387..540P | doi-access = free }} |
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*{{Cite news | last = Pockley | first = Peter | title = Theory blown out of the water| newspaper = Australian Sun-Herald | date = 6 November 1994 }} |
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*{{Cite book| last = Fasold | first = David | date = 1 March 1989 | title = The Ark of Noah | publisher = Wynwood Press | url = https://archive.org/details/arkofnoah00faso |
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| location = Bonners Ferry, ID | isbn = 978-0922066100 | pages = 331}} |
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*{{Cite book| last = Fasold | first = David | date = 19 April 1990 | title = The Discovery of Noah's Ark | publisher = Pan Macmillan imprint Sidgwick & Jackson | url = |
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https://www.amazon.com/s?k=david+fasold&rh=n%3A283155&ref=nb_sb_noss | location = Basingstoke, Hamps, southern England | isbn = 978-0283060069 | pages = 352}} |
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*{{Cite journal |first1=Lorence D. |last1=Collins |first2=David |last2=Fasold |title=Bogus 'Noah's Ark' from Turkey Exposed as a Common Geologic Structure |journal=Journal of Geoscience Education |year=1996 |volume=44 |issue=4 |hdl=10211.2/3026 |pages=439–44|doi=10.5408/1089-9995-44.4.439 |bibcode=1996JGeEd..44..439C }} |
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*{{Cite video | people= Plimer, Ian, and David Fasold | date= 1994 | title= Crusaders for the Lost Ark | medium= Documentary | location=Sydney | publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corp.}} |
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120622110727/http://www.omnitron.net/arkltr.htm Letter written by Mr. David Fasold] |
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*[http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/207 "No Winners in Australian Ark Fiasco" by Trevor Major] |
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 David Fasold beside what he claimed is a drogue stone in Kazan (formerly called Arzap), Turkey | |
| Born | David Franklin Fasold February 23, 1939 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | April 26, 1998 (aged 59) Corvallis, Oregon, U.S. |
| Known for | authoring The Ark of Noah, Plimer lawsuit |
David Franklin Fasold (February 23, 1939 – April 26, 1998) was a United States Merchant Marine officer and salvage expert who is best known for his 1988 book The Ark of Noah, chronicling his early expeditions to the Durupınar Noah's Ark site in eastern Turkey. Repudiating and then changing his views about the site, Fasold was a participant in a suit with Australian geologist and skeptic Ian Plimer against an Australian creationist group. The suit, dubbed the "Monkey Trial II,"[1] was a notable case in the debate between science and religion and its role in society.
Biography and marine career
[edit]Fasold was born in Chicago in 1939 and grew up in Wheaton, Illinois, son of Frank, an architect, and Ruth Fasold, who raised him as strict Plymouth Brethren. In 1957 he joined the United States Merchant Marine becoming an officer and traveling the world. He met his wife Anna Elizabeth Avila, from El Salvador, in San Jose, California, in the 1950s. After beginning a family he moved to Key West, Florida, where Fasold built up a respectable marine salvage company. In the 1970s and 1980s he assisted various marine treasure hunters, including Mel Fisher.[2]: 10–11
Fasold owned a photograph album showing the state visit of Benito Mussolini to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany that was published in 1970 as The Hitler Albums: Mussolini's State Visit to Germany, Sept. 25-29, 1937, with editorial assistance by Roger James Bender.[3]
He raised two sons, Nathan and Michael, before dying of cancer in Corvallis, Oregon, on April 26, 1998, financially broken from years of expeditions and research.[2]: 184–185
Durupınar site
[edit]Always interested in the history of the Bible and Noah's Ark, Fasold studied pre-Christian accounts of the Deluge and came to believe that the ark would be found not on Mount Ararat but somewhere to the southwest. In 1985, Fasold teamed up with Ron Wyatt to investigate the Durupınar site (located at approximately 39°26′26.26″N 44°14′04.26″E / 39.4406278°N 44.2345167°E), a boat-shaped mound site named after Turkish Army Captain İlhan Durupınar who identified the formation in a Turkish Air Force aerial photo while on a mapping mission for NATO in 1959.[2] [4][5]
In 1985, Fasold and Wyatt were joined by geophysicist John Baumgardner for the expedition recounted in Fasold's 1988 book The Ark of Noah. As soon as Fasold saw the site, he exclaimed that it was a ship wreck. Fasold had brought a state-of-the-art frequency generator, set on the wavelength for iron and searched the formation for internal iron loci. This technique was later compared to dowsing by the site's detractors. Fasold and the team measured the length of the formation as 538 feet, close to the 300 cubits of the Bible if the Egyptian cubit of 20.6 inches is used. Later measurements by others found it to be 515 feet, exactly 300 Egyptian cubits in length. Fasold believed the team had found the fossilized remains of the upper deck and that the original reed substructure has disappeared. In the nearby village of Kazan (formerly called Arzap), so-called drogue stones that they believed were once attached to the ark were investigated.[4][6][7]
The Ark of Noah and the break with Wyatt
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Ron Wyatt and David Fasold were both featured on a 20/20 television special soon after their expedition. Charles Berlitz wrote of Fasold's searches in his 1987 book The Lost Ship of Noah, also printing part of an extensive 1985 interview with Fasold on pages 157-161.[6] Wyatt wrote a small booklet, presenting his evidence found at the site, including what he considered petrified wood from deck timbers, pitch, and metal rivets.[7] Fasold took a different approach, concentrating on pre-biblical literature and, as a nautical engineer, recognized the likelihood that it was made, like other ancient large boats and rafts, of reeds. He concluded that the enigmatic "gopher wood" of Genesis 6:14 was in fact a covering of bitumen and reeds, and the words was related to kaphar or pitch . He also made the claim that there were two Dilmuns, one located on Bahrain and the original one in the Zagros mountains.[8] In 1988, Fasold published his own book, The Ark of Noah.[4]
In The Ark of Noah, Fasold took many fundamentalists and creationists to task for insisting that the ark was rectangular in shape, made of wood, and must have landed on Mount Ararat (when the Bible states "the mountains of Ararat"). He also critically examined and dismissed many previous ark sightings at Ararat. The exposure of his find in the media led to further expeditions to the site in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During this time, Wyatt supposedly discovered petrified wood and metal items, and exposed the remains of decayed rib timbers at the site. Fasold doubted many of Wyatt's claims during this time, and broke with Wyatt's interpretations.[4][9] During this time, Fasold formed the Noahide Society and issued a newsletter called Ark-Update.[2]: 11 [10] He also produced several audio and video tapes.[11]
Doubts and changing views
[edit]During the 1990s, Fasold was caught between three opposing camps, all of whom derided his interest in the site: orthodox creationists who believed the ark could only lie on Mount Ararat; Wyatt and others who continued their research and reported significant discoveries; and skeptical geologists and biblical minimalists who called the site a hoax.[2]: 95–127
After a few expeditions to the Durupınar site that included drillings and excavation in the 1990s, Fasold began to have doubts that the Durupınar formation was Noah's ark. Following a September 1994 site visit with geologist Ian Plimer, he noted: "I believe this may be the oldest running hoax in history. I think we have found what the ancients said was the Ark, but this structure is not Noah's Ark."[12] At other times he claimed that the site was only what the ancients believed was Ziusudra's 'ark of reeds'.[13] In 1996 Fasold coauthored a paper with geologist Lorence Collins entitled "Bogus 'Noah's Ark' from Turkey Exposed as a Common Geologic Structure" that concluded the boat-shaped formation was a curious upswelling of mud that happened to look like a boat.[14] In April 1997 during his testimony in an Australian court case Fasold repudiated his belief in the Ark, and stated that he regarded the claim as "absolute BS".[15][16][17]
Ark researchers David Allen Deal[9] and Robert Michelson,[18] and Australian friend and biographer June Dawes[2]: 184 reported that before his 1998 death Fasold again claimed the Durupınar site to be the location of the ark. Dawes wrote:
He [Fasold] kept repeating that no matter what the experts said, there was too much going for the [Durupınar] site for it to be dismissed. He remained convinced it was the fossilized remains of Noah's Ark.[2]: 184
Jabal al-Lawz as Mount Sinai
[edit]In 1986 Fasold, along with Ron Wyatt, was one of the first Americans to investigate the notion that Jabal al-Lawz in Saudi Arabia might be the Biblical Mount Sinai. During an illegal trek through the desert around the mountain, Wyatt and Fasold were arrested and detained for a short period.[2]: 47–62 Former New York Times journalist Howard Blum wrote of Fasold's journeys in his 1998 book The Gold of Exodus.[19]
Plimer case
[edit]In 1997, Fasold was involved in an Australian lawsuit against creationist Allen Roberts, who reproduced some of Fasold's artwork without permission. Co-plaintiff Ian Plimer, an Australian humanist and skeptic, sued Roberts's organization Ark Search under the Fair Trading Act, alleging that they had made false and misleading claims about the Durupinar site. The case, touted as a second Scopes Monkey Trial,[citation needed] failed, with Judge Ron Sackville ruling: "Courts should not attempt to provide a remedy for every false or misleading statement made in the course of public debate on matters of general interest." Fasold described the award of $2,500 Australian dollars in damages as for copyright infringement as "a slap in the face."[1][10][17][20][21][22]
Works
[edit]Books
[edit]- Fasold, David F.; Bender, Roger James. (1970). The Hitler Albums: Mussolini's State Visit to Germany, Sept. 25-29, 1937. R. James Bender Publishing.
- Fasold, David (1989). The Ark of Noah. Bonners Ferry, ID: Wynwood Press. p. 331. ISBN 978-0922066100.
- Fasold, David (1990). The Discovery of Noah's Ark. Basingstoke, Hamps, southern England: Pan Macmillan imprint Sidgwick & Jackson. p. 352. ISBN 978-0283060069.
Articles
[edit]- Collins, Lorence D.; Fasold, David (1996). "Bogus 'Noah's Ark' from Turkey Exposed as a Common Geologic Structure". Journal of Geoscience Education. 44 (4): 439–44. Bibcode:1996JGeEd..44..439C. doi:10.5408/1089-9995-44.4.439. hdl:10211.2/3026. Full text
Video
[edit]- Fasold, David (1993). The Discovery of Noah's Ark (Documentary). Westlake Village, CA: American Media.
- Plimer, Ian, and David Fasold (1994). Crusaders for the Lost Ark (Documentary). Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Sources
[edit]Books
[edit]- Berlitz, Charles (1987). The Lost Ship of Noah. New York: Putnam. ISBN 0-399-13182-5.
- Blum, Howard (1998). The Gold of Exodus: The Discovery of the True Mount Sinai. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-80918-4.
- Coleman, Simon (2004). The Cultures of Creationism. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 0-7546-0912-X.
- Dawes, June (2000). Noah's Ark: Adrift in Dark Waters. Belrose, NSW: Noahide. ISBN 0-646-40228-5.
- Deal, David Allen (2005). Noah's Ark: The Evidence. Muscogee, OK: Artisan. ISBN 0-933677-02-2.
- Fasold, David (1988). The Ark of Noah. New York: Wynwood. ISBN 0-922066-10-8.
- Nissen, Henri (2005). Noah's Ark Uncovered: An Expedition into the Ancient Past. City: Scandinavia Publishing House. ISBN 87-7247-813-6.
- Sellier, Charles; David Balsiger (1995). The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark. New York: Dell. ISBN 0-440-21799-7.
- Wilson, Ian (2002). Before the Flood. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-30400-5.
- Wyatt, Ron (1989). Discovered: Noah's Ark!. Nashville: World Bible Society. ISBN 0-942521-43-9.
Articles
[edit]- Finkel, Elizabeth (6 June 1997). "Ark Claim Survives Court Fight". Science. 276 (5318): 1493–4. doi:10.1126/science.276.5318.1493a. PMID 9190684. S2CID 153263169.
- Finkel, Elizabeth (18 April 1997). "Creationism Suit: Australian Geologist Battles 'Ark' Claim". Science. 276 (5311): 348. doi:10.1126/science.276.5311.348. S2CID 159636408.
- "Noah battles Darwin in Australian courtroom". Turkish Daily News. 14 April 1997.
- Pockley, Peter (5 June 1997). "Geologist Loses 'Creationism' Challenge". Nature. 387 (6633): 540. Bibcode:1997Natur.387..540P. doi:10.1038/42331. PMID 9177329.
- Pockley, Peter (6 November 1994). "Theory blown out of the water". Australian Sun-Herald.
Video
[edit]- Griffin, G. Edward (1993). The Discovery of Noah's Ark (Documentary). Westlake Village, CA: American Media.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Noah battles Darwin in Australian courtroom". Turkish Daily News. 1997.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c d e f g h Dawes, June (2000). Noah's Ark: Adrift in Dark Waters. Belrose, NSW: Noahide. ISBN 0-646-40228-5.
- ^ Fasold, David F.; Bender, Roger James. (1970). The Hitler Albums: Mussolini's State Visit to Germany, Sept. 25–29, 1937. R. James Bender Publishing. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
- ^ a b c d Fasold, David (1 March 1989). The Ark of Noah. Bonners Ferry, ID: Wynwood Press. p. 331. ISBN 978-0922066100. Other sections discuss Fasold's introduction to the ark and the clues he followed in Berossus to locate the ark.
- ^ Fasold, David (19 April 1990). The Discovery of Noah's Ark. Basingstoke, Hamps, southern England: Pan Macmillan imprint Sidgwick & Jackson. p. 352. ISBN 978-0283060069.
- ^ a b Berlitz, Charles (1987). The Lost Ship of Noah. New York: Putnam. pp. 51–61, 157–162. ISBN 0-399-13182-5.
- ^ a b Wyatt, Ron (1989). Discovered: Noah's Ark!. Nashville: World Bible Society. ISBN 0-942521-43-9.
- ^ Fasold makes this claim in pp. 206-211 of The Ark of Noah, years before archaeologist David Rohl did in chapter eight of his book Legend: The Genesis of Civilisation. There are other similarities between their theories, though arrived at by different methodologies.
- ^ a b Deal, David Allen (2005). Noah's Ark: The Evidence. Muscogee, OK: Artisan. pp. 45–46. ISBN 0-933677-02-2.
- ^ a b Wilson, Ian (2002). Before the Flood. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 36–39. ISBN 0-312-30400-5.
- ^ Like, for instance, The Discovery of Noah's Ark (VHS, DVD). Westlake Village, CA: American Media. 1993.
- ^ Pockley, Peter (6 November 1994). "Theory blown out of the water". Australian Sun-Herald.
- ^ Sellier, Charles; David Balsiger (1995). The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark. New York: Dell. pp. 269–293. ISBN 0-440-21799-7.
- ^ Collins, Lorence D.; Fasold, David (1996). "Bogus 'Noah's Ark' from Turkey Exposed as a Common Geologic Structure". Journal of Geoscience Education. 44 (4): 439–44. Bibcode:1996JGeEd..44..439C. doi:10.5408/1089-9995-44.4.439. hdl:10211.2/3026. Full text
- ^ Clifton, Brad (9 April 1997). "Doubts sank faith in Ark". The Daily Telegraph (Sydney).
- ^ Thomson, Kirstyn (9 April 1997). "Witness Tells How Ark Faith Sank". The West Australian.
- ^ a b Finkel, Elizabeth (18 April 1997). "Creationism Suit: Australian Geologist Battles 'Ark' Claim". Science. 276 (5311): 348. doi:10.1126/science.276.5311.348. S2CID 159636408.
- ^ Corbin, B. J. (1999). The Explorers of Ararat and the Search for Noah's Ark. Long Beach, CA: Great Commission Illustrated Books. p. 429. ISBN 0965346986.
- ^ Blum, Howard (1998). The Gold of Exodus: The Discovery of the True Mount Sinai. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 44–59. ISBN 0-684-80918-4.
- ^ Finkel, Elizabeth (6 June 1997). "Ark Claim Survives Court Fight". Science. 276 (5318): 1493–4. doi:10.1126/science.276.5318.1493a. PMID 9190684. S2CID 153263169.
- ^ Pockley, Peter (5 June 1997). "Geologist Loses 'Creationism' Challenge". Nature. 387 (6633): 540. Bibcode:1997Natur.387..540P. doi:10.1038/42331. PMID 9177329.
- ^ Coleman, Simon (2004). The Cultures of Creationism. Aldershot: Ashgate. p. 116. ISBN 0-7546-0912-X.
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