Watching the discovery of Noah’s Ark in Turkey, on Youtube (A MUST WATCH! Part I, Part II), has left me in awe of the intelligence and workmanship that went into the construction of Noah’s Ark. It has also left me disgusted with the Discovery Channel.

I have always held the Discovery Channel in high regard because I was a naïve child who remembers Dad’s encouragement to watch documentaries instead of drama serials. On the odd afternoon when all that is playing on regular television is soap dramas and operas, I go on cable and watch Discovery Channel or the National Geographic. And I was always amazed by the photography and the soothing voice of the narrator.

I’ve always trusted documentaries, particularly those shown on the Discovery Channel! Until today.

The Discovery Channel, while I acknowledge their need to be secular and rational and to use science to explain everything, dismissed the Noah’s Ark story that has appeared in the Bible, Tanakh and Quran as a non-event. That it was not possible for Noah to have rescued all those animals in seven days. That was not possible to build an Ark that large without it crumbling and succumbing to a flood as large as the one that claims to have wiped out every other living creature. That the earth didn’t (and doesn’t) contain enough water to ever kill the entire planet, that if there was that much water, the atmosphere would have changed dramatically that one would not have been able to breathe, whether in the Ark or not.

I am no Biblical scholar and I definitely do not know my Bible “all that well”. However, I do know that Noah’s Ark was discovered in Turkey back in 1987, and The Discovery Channel had conveniently left out that part in their unbiased, rational and scientific documentary on “Noah’s Ark: The True Story”, filmed sometime in year 2000s.

The Turkish government has designated the site where Noah’s Ark sits as a National Park and National Treasure. The compelling documentary of the discovery of Noah’s Ark has the archaeologists digging, researching and measuring the “object”, where they measured it to every detail including the depths of it by bringing in experts who were able to find black boxes in the depths of the ocean after a plane crash without sending men underwater. They studied the material of the “object”, cleverly engineered to hold together and withstand trauma. They uncovered the existence of iron within the wood, which throws off the Discovery Channel’s claim that the boat was made entirely of wood and would have crumbled with the storm.

The entire “object” measured just as the Bible, Quran and Tanakh had described it to be.

It would be almost understandable if the Discovery Channel had done the documentary, which they claim to be THE TRUE STORY, before the archaeological find in 1987. Unfortunately, this documentary was filmed not so long ago, and definitely a decade after the discovery of Noah’s Ark in Turkey. Which makes me question every other so-called “discovery” of “truth” that the Discovery Channel has been cheating the world over.

I am not a cynical person. I am a person of faith, of truth and of love.

I refuse to allow one documentary to alter my perception of this highly esteemed documentary maker. But I do have to resolve this, for myself, if not for the cynics and non-believers. I have to write to the Discovery Channel. Perhaps a few years lagging, but never too late.