Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A recent New York Post headline declared that fossilized trees "might finally prove" Noah's Ark is real, attributed simply to "scientists." So I went looking for the scientists.
In this video I trace where this story actually comes from: a group called Noah's Ark Scans, the Durupınar formation in eastern Turkey, and a set of soil-sample and pH claims that supposedly point to rotting timbers. What I found myself doing, unusually, was agreeing with Answers in Genesis, the Institute for Creation Research, and Creation Ministries International, all three of which have spent years warning against these very claims. I walk through Andrew Snelling's 2007 geology of the site, ICR's repeated rebuttals going back to 1992, and CMI's detailed documentation of selective disclosure and digitally altered images. When an argument is too weak even for the people most eager to believe it, that tells us something worth noticing.
Chapters
0:00 A "root awakening" in the New York Post
2:56 The article itself and that strange colon "scientists"
5:56 Noah's Ark Scans and the Durupınar site
6:52 Soil samples, pH, and the rotting-wood argument
9:45 Who these researchers actually are
11:55 Agreeing with the organizations I usually critique
12:23 Snelling's 2007 geology of the formation
16:56 ICR's rebuttals from 1992 to 2015
17:56 CMI documents selective disclosure
21:51 Too weak even for fellow creationists
23:31 Joe Rogan, escalating claims, and a closing warning
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Joel Duff (aka Dr. Duff or The Natural Historian) resources:
About: joelduff.org
Blog: thenaturalhistorian.com
Twitter: twitter.com/NaturalHistoria
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenaturalhi...
Photography "Portraits of Creation:" beechnutphotography.com
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A recent New York Post headline declared that fossilized trees "might finally prove" Noah's Ark is real, attributed simply to "scientists." So I went looking for the scientists.
In this video I trace where this story actually comes from: a group called Noah's Ark Scans, the Durupınar formation in eastern Turkey, and a set of soil-sample and pH claims that supposedly point to rotting timbers. What I found myself doing, unusually, was agreeing with Answers in Genesis, the Institute for Creation Research, and Creation Ministries International, all three of which have spent years warning against these very claims. I walk through Andrew Snelling's 2007 geology of the site, ICR's repeated rebuttals going back to 1992, and CMI's detailed documentation of selective disclosure and digitally altered images. When an argument is too weak even for the people most eager to believe it, that tells us something worth noticing.
Chapters
0:00 A "root awakening" in the New York Post
2:56 The article itself and that strange colon "scientists"
5:56 Noah's Ark Scans and the Durupınar site
6:52 Soil samples, pH, and the rotting-wood argument
9:45 Who these researchers actually are
11:55 Agreeing with the organizations I usually critique
12:23 Snelling's 2007 geology of the formation
16:56 ICR's rebuttals from 1992 to 2015
17:56 CMI documents selective disclosure
21:51 Too weak even for fellow creationists
23:31 Joe Rogan, escalating claims, and a closing warning
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Joel Duff (aka Dr. Duff or The Natural Historian) resources:
About: joelduff.org
Blog: thenaturalhistorian.com
Twitter: twitter.com/NaturalHistoria
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenaturalhi...
Photography "Portraits of Creation:" beechnutphotography.com
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