The desire to "prove" that events in the Bible were actual, historical events has always seemed at odds to me with, what's that other thing, oh right: faith. Why run around digging up Mary's shekels and superhydroatomatizing or whatever the Shroud of Turin when you know it had to happen that way because God said so? God's word isn't good enough for you people? You believe Glenn Beck without proof, but God, him you've got to check up on? Can't you leave all this "proving" business to those geeks who ruined the curve for you in high school?
This is brought up by the (from Fox News via Wonkette, so take it as you will) finding of some wood chunks on some mountain in Turkey that they think was Noah's Ark. They determined that these wood chunks are 4,800 years old. How did they determine this? Divine revelation? ISBN codes? No, they used carbon dating. This is funny, because when other scientists use carbon dating to suggest that there are many things on earth more than 6,000 years old, that is taken to be The Devil at work. But if it proves that Noah's Ark existed, then it's totally incontrovertible fact.
It must be awesome to be an "evangelical explorer," though.
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