By NOEL MURPHY
CLIFTON Springs’ Rod Walsh is on a mission from God – to prove Noah’s Ark was real and carried dinosaurs and that evolution theory is fatally flawed.
He’s touring the country with wife Nancy and a two-metre scale-model of the ark – about a cubit long in the old Biblical measure – lecturing to schools, churches and anyone whose ear he can bend.
Mr Walsh has taken his mission to more than 600 venues, highlighting fossil anomalies and arguing the ark was real.
The couple head Creation Ministries International’s Ark Van touring ministry. Their model ark took 600 hours to build at a scale of 1:72 and conforming with the Bible’s 300x50x30-cubit dimensions.
Mr Walsh said he was inspired in 1997 to build a model of Noah’s Ark to show it was a “real part” of history and to demonstrate the Old Testament stood up to science.
His main bugbear was schools teaching evolution when, he said, science had failed to prove many of its tenets.
Mainstream science’s endeavours into the past failed to stack up because of dating technique discrepancies, Mr Walsh believed.
“There are two types of science: good testable science, such as medical science and sending men to the moon, and then there’s history science, which is not testable and full of assumptions.
“There are many things we don’t know. When Darwin came up with his theory of evolution they thought single human cells were simple but now we know each cell is as complex as New York city.
“The probability we came here by accident is absolutely zero.”
Mr Walsh said a Bible reference to a behemoth proved dinosaurs were included on Noah’s Ark.
He said hundreds of Great Flood accounts existed across ancient societies.
As for finding Noah’s Ark on Turkey’s Mount Ararat, he said ice 300 metres thick made the task difficult.
“There was a Frenchman who fell into a crevasse there in 1955 who says he saw it and there are five pieces of wood he retrieved in a museum in Paris but people are still looking.”
