A Must Read.

[Kat Walker]

https://safeco3.net/wyattmuseum/index.htm

This is something I heard about in church today. If you're not familiar with the works of archeaologist Ron Wyatt, you really ought to be.

All of it is worth your time, especially the discovery of the Ark of the Covenant (and the subsequent reasons for its current secrecy). I won't go into details here because I think you really ought to read it on your own and make up your own mind -- but I will say that after reading about the blood on the mercy seat, the only physical evidence that could make you surer that Jesus Christ was who He said He was is by building a time machine and seeing Him for yourself.

Questions, comments, refutations, don't hesitate to say anything -- as long as you promise to read it. It's beyond fascinating.

[Destroyer2000]

Wow, but what do they suppose they would do if they found the Ark of the Covenant? I still WOULD NOT touch it.

EDIT: Anyone remember Raiders of the Lost Ark?

[Technomancer]

There is a reason why Ron Wyatt's work is not taken seriously by archaeologists anywhere. While he does make a number of extravagant claims regarding things like the ark of the covenant and so forth, nowhere does he carry out any sort of verifiable analysis. In fact, he has not submitted any of his findings to competant professionals, or to any sort of independant review at all. The few claims that he has made, where the evidence is readily obtainable, as is the case for geographic features.

For instance, both AIG and ICR (who have reason to want his material to be true) have both stated that they find no truth in his claims.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/magazines/docs/v21n2_ark.asp
http://www.ldolphin.org/wyatt.html

In the end I think that not only are Mr. Wyatts claims wrong, but that they should serve as a serious warning against believing something to be true merely because you wish it to be be.

*edit* I apologize for links that I would not normally endorse, however I cannot find information regarding him from more respectable sources. He is nowhere on the radar as far as serious archaeology is concerned.

[Kat Walker]

From what I understand, Mr. Wyatt is a lay-theologian and more of an amateur aracheologist than anything (he has no crews, no funds, and relies soley on luck at times). Many of the things he's supposedly found are extremely controversial to begin with (can you imagine the WWIII that would begin over whether it should be Christians, Muslims, or Jews who can lay claim to the 10 commandments?) and have rightly been sealed away from the public. Extravagant claims he's made indeed, and I am not saying he's got irrevocable proof...he's actually rather cautious about making absolute claims to anything on his site (contrary to your determination to make him out as some raving pseudo-scientific lunatic). And he is rather highly respected by the antiquity committees of Turkey and Jerusalem, so the claim of no "respectable" arachelogists so much as noticing his work is untrue.

Being a religious man and an non-professional, his research was indeed done out of belief in Christianity and a confidence in Biblical record, and while its reasonable to think bias is a possible driving force it is equally close-minded to assert just because someone has a preceding belief in something that it will taint their research beyond the point of credibility.

Edit: AIG makes a good point in Jeremiah, about the Ark being forgotten forever and an unneccesary relic of the past. Regardless of whether it was actually found or if anyone came close, its not a matter of importance. If the ark ever *was* found and made a specticle of, we should probably start worrying as that was contrary to the Bible's stance on the matter.

In the end I think that not only are Mr. Wyatts claims wrong, but that they should serve as a serious warning against believing something to be true merely because you wish it to be be.

Ah, Tech, I know you mean well and thank you for the interesting rebuttals...but it really gets to me when you take any shot you can to belittle people's intelligence. Is that really necessary? The same could be said for your incurable skepticism of anything remotely Christian...

[GhostontheNet]

Perhaps this thread at sister site Theology Web may be of interest; http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5004&highlight=Ron+Wyatt .

[Mithrandir]

An excellent suggestion, Ghostonthenet. For obvious reasons:

*thread closed*