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Liberty University is sending students to Turkey to find Noah's Ark.

[Randall] Price, who heads Liberty University’s Center For Judaic Studies, talked in January about his planned two-season expedition into Turkey, with the hopes of finding the Biblical artifact. He arrived in Turkey over the summer.

But Price said since then, he’s faced pressure from a political group in Turkey that is forcing him to keep his excursion very hush-hush.

“There’s not a lot (regarding Noah’s Ark) that I can say,” Price said, but he went on to give some basic details of what he plans to do next August, as the expedition finishes up.

Price said in January that he believes the Biblical boat is resting on Mount Ararat, covered by a glacier that sometimes temporarily recedes to give glimpses of what he believes is an ancient structure.

Haven't the glaciers had to deal with enough over the last few decades without a bunch of Christian toolboxes hacking away at one of them? Maybe Liberty University could spend some time in Egypt, instead? I have it on good authority that there's some kind of important artifact hidden away there.

(Thanks to Slog Tipper Levi. From Pharyngula. Noah's Ark toy set from Brain Wooden Toys.)