Core drilling just started on the boat-shaped ridge in eastern Turkey that some people have called Noah’s Ark since a Turkish Army captain spotted it from the air in 1959. The Durupinar formation sits in the Tendurek Mountains near Mount Ararat, about 164 meters long — close to the 300-cubit length in Genesis. Modern geologists have treated it for decades as limestone and volcanic clay carved by erosion. David Fasold measured it in the 1980s, called it a fossilized deck, then later dismissed the ark theory himself. Now a Sivas Cumhuriyet University team, with Turkish government approval, has run the first real core drill into it. Andrew Jones says the biggest early finding is that the formation is soil, not a solid rock mass worn into a ship shape. Radar work has picked up right angles, possible tunnels, and voids a few meters down. Earlier soil tests found about three times more organic matter inside the outline than on the hillside next to it. The samples are headed to labs in Ankara. A full report is not expected until 2027. The fundraising side did not wait. Lauren Witzke, handling marketing for the Noah’s Ark Scans effort, has already said university curricula will need to be rewritten and Darwinism dismantled — while an underground robot, adapted from a machine built to explore wombat burrows, is still collecting footage. That is the gap worth watching: a real dig at a formation science wrote off and a press line that already knows the ending.Pat also covered: Sharon Stone tells Michelle Obama they didn’t test tampons on human blood until 2026, then says if men got pregnant, you’d get an abortion from a vending machine. Gavin Newsom on 2028: no deadline, just fate, and his kids are the focus group with veto power. Philadelphia teacher Hannah Gann told activists she was Palestinian, Tunisian, and black. She finally admitted, “I lied about my identity and have been lying for years.” Trump endorses Ken Paxton in Denton, then calls him a pain in the ass to his face. “Is he here? Oh, there he is. I don’t care.” Jim Justice says ICE got “carried away” dragging 15-year neighbors, then says he backs Trump “full stop,” and the press twisted his words.Is Durupinar Noah’s Ark, or a ridge that happens to look like a hull? What would those cores have to show before you believed either side?If you want unfiltered truth and commonsense analysis that cuts through the noise, hit subscribe and turn on notifications.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices