SYDNEY - In a case which is being compared to the US "Monkey Trial" of John Thomas Scopes in 1925 for teaching evolution, a leading Australian scientist is suing - under consumer protection laws - a man" who claims to have found Noah's Ark.
Professor Ian Plimer, head of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne, accuses Dr Allen Roberts of breaching section 52 of the Trade Practices Act with his claims the wreck of the Ark is on top of Mount Ararat in Turkey. The suit, which opens today, alleges misleading and deceptive conduct.