Floyd M.
Gurley New Eden Article
“Fallacy of the Negative Proof” and allegations ended up being wrong
anyway
Soon after the New
Eden article (1939), Benjamin Franklin
Allen (Gurley’s neighbor) stated that the publication was a “most exaggerated account” with
Gurley’s imagination running wild on only
the “basic facts” Allen had given Gurley. According to Allen, these “basic
facts” that Allen had given
Gurley years earlier included:
“The few details originating from two soldiers in the Czarist Russian
Army during the First World War, deceased
many years ago. The story of these soldiers came to me from their relatives of
how a Russian aviator had
sighted a suspicious looking structure in one of Ararat’s obscure canyons. Infantrymen were sent on foot to investigate and their
officers and they decided it must be Noah’s Ark, with one end sunk in a small swamp.”Gurley apologized to Allen in a “To Whom It May Concern” letter dated
August 1, 1940.
“All of the basic material used in that article came from the researches
of Mr. Benjamin Franklin Allen, and
the article was written up in story form with the intent of making it more
interesting to read.
Apologies are hereby offered to Mr. Allen for having used some of his
material which he feels was not sufficiently
corroborated and which he states he does not wish to release for publication
at this date.”03/10/2009
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