by Judi Mcleod
May 14, 2004
Though he’ll be thousands of miles away from the Big apple, CEO Daniel P. McGivern will be keeping Kofi annan and Company on their toes this summer.
McGivern, President of Shamrock-The Trinity Corp. of Honolulu, is turning world attention to a remote mountaintop in Turkey at a time when the United Nations, pushing the global religion of Gaia, least needs it.
From Secular Central at the United Nations, the agenda is a religion centered around the worship of Mother Earth rather than God and the launch of the Mikhail Gorbachev/Maurice Strong Earth Charter as a global replacement for the Ten Commandments.
Christians the world over are hoping McGivern will unearth Noah’s ark during this summer’s expedition to the upper regions of Turkey’s Mount ararat, and in so doing, prove for once and for all the authencity of predictions in the world’s best selling book, the Holy Bible.
"We are not excavating it. We are not taking any artifacts. We’re going to photograph it and, God willing, you’re all going to see it," McGivern says of his expedition to ararat.
McGivern, CEO of a successful greeting card company is pulling a Mel Gibson, in drawing the masses back to Christian beliefs.
Whether he pinpoints the location of the ark or not, Christian eyes the world over are already trained on him.
Legends abound about the actual location of Noah’s ark. Unshaken in his faith, McGivren, a Catholic, is looking to Mount ararat because that’s where the Good Book says it is.
Like all buried treasures, the Noah’s ark search has had its share of mercenaries and plain kooks.
Global geologists, of course, are saying that it is not possible for a ship to make a landfall at an altitude as high as Mount ararat.
These Pooh-Bahs would likely pooh-pooh the idea of a few fish feeding the masses too.
There’s irony in the theory that it was global warming that makes the latest expedition possible. The Ice and snow that cover the upper regions of Mount ararat experienced significant melting last summer, recorded as the hottest in Europe since the 1500s.
But not all searchers of Noah’s ark fall into the crackpot and power categories.
according to space.com (astronotes), "The first pictures of the ararat site were taken by the U.S. air Force in 1949.
"The images allegedly revealed what seemed to be a structure covered by ice, but were held in a confidential file called "ararat anomaly" for years. In 1997, the government released several of these images, but experts deemed them inconclusive.
"In 2002, Porcher Taylor, a senior associate (non-resident) at the prominent think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. also requested satellite imagery of the area to see if the mythical vessel truly existed."
Long treks to Turkey’s tallest mountain, which towers at 17,820 feet, accelerated after 1957 when Turkish air Force pilots spotted what they said was a boat-shaped formation in agri province.
The government did nothing about the sighting. at the time the entire area was off limits to the outside world in Cold War days when Soviets insisted explorers were really american spies.
The year 1982 was a watershed on for seekers of the ark when the lifting of the ban allowed teams of explorers back to ararat.
The lure of ararat captivated the late James Benson Irwin, a member of the apollo 15 mission and the eighth man to walk on the Moon. He was the first man to drive a lunar rover on the Moon.
In 1982, Irwin led an expedition to Mount ararat. Seriously injured, he had to be carried down from the mountain by horseback.
The 10-person Trinity team setting out on the July 15, 2004 expedition is a joint one, combined of experts from the U.S. and Turkey.
Spurred on by the help of recent satellite photos helping pinpoint a more exact location, the team will be counting on Turkish mountain climber ahmet ali arslan. a native of a Turkish town near the site, ali arslan has travelled up Mount ararat 50 times in 40 years.
Finding Noah’s ark would be a major setback for the United Nation-pushed one world religion of Gaia.
Will the CEO of a greeting card company find success at the top of Turkey’s tallest mountain this summer?
True life, as UN officials should know better than most, is often stranger than fiction.
If this Catholic pulls it off, he’ll be up with the likes of Mel Gibson in luring Christians back to Christ at a time when the United Nations is truing to replace Christianity with al Gore’s Gaia.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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