arkeologist

plural arkeologists

1. Someone who studies the story of Noah's ark, particularly by searching for physical evidence which would corroborate it.

   Unfortunately, the inflated pronouncements of “arkeologists,” as they are called, have proven to be neither accurate nor trustworthy.

   2013, Jerome Clark, Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena, 3rd edition

   2 more examples

   The most successful arkeologist of his time was Fernand Navarra, whose record was published in French in 1956 and in English in 1974 under the title Noah's Ark: I Touched It!

   2000, Bob Rickard, John Michell, chapter 7, in Unexplained Phenomena: Mysteries and Curiosities of Science, Folklore and Superstition, page 182

   Those who search—often obsessively—for it are known as ‘Arkeologists’. … Geologists are bored and irritated by the Arkeologists for Ararat has a remarkable history of its own. … An eminent Arkeologist, a Dr Allen Roberts, armed with a degree in Christian Education from Florida's Freedom University, once sought funds in Australia to excavate the possible remains of Noah's lifeboat.

   2013, Steve Jones, The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science