Bible proven! Genesis stories vindicated! Well, not exactly. I find it interesting when people passing themselves off as archaeologists generate press releases and video specials purporting either to support or debunk something biblical. We had the Jesus tomb a couple of years ago, and the Noah's Ark thing appears occasionally as well. Historians and thoughtful people of faith should know better than to buy the hype and, instead, be intelligent about the limits of archaeology and historical evidence. Wood + a mountain in Turkey does not automatically = Ark any more than finding an ossuary with "Jesus Son of Joseph" scratched on the side of it prove that Jesus was didn't rise from the dead. These finds tell us something about the period in question, but we can only infer based on the evidence–that's different from claiming 99.9% certainty.
A more interesting question is this: if it was possible to prove that this was THE Noah's Ark, what would that do to your faith or your skepticism about the Bible? Would it change things for you? Does the confirmation of one aspect of the biblical story confirm the whole thing?
Just wondering. I'm a person who believes that the Bible is historical, but that history is washed through the lens of theology. For the biblical writers, history, theology, science, literature, and other disciplines that we post-Enlightenment people separate were one worldview. We have to remember that when we're reading and when we hear about these kinds of finds.
