Expedition to Search for Noah's Ark

Every once in a while yet another group or person decides to expend great amounts of time and money in a search for Noah's Ark. The latest in this parade is Daniel P. McGivern, president of Shamrock--The Trinity Corporation of Honolulu, Hawaii. McGivern will be sending a team of 10 explorers up Turkey's tallest mountain, Mount Ararat, from July 15 to August 15 - assuming the Turkish government approves.

WFTV reports:

The goal: to enter what they believe to be a mammoth structure some 45 feet high, 75 feet wide and up to 450 feet long that was exposed in part by last summer's heat wave in Europe. "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 said. Explorers have long searched for an ark on the high slopes of Mount Ararat, where the biblical account of the Great Flood places it. ... [T]eams of explorers have visited the area but have been unable to substantiate any claim of an ark.

When the explorers fail to find anything, I wonder what the reaction will be. Will the backers give up on their belief that Noah's Ark is or ever was there? Will they instead insist that Ark must be located elsewhere or perhaps has sunk into the rock? The question here is, obviously, whether they will allow facts to lead their beliefs or if they will make up "facts" in order to preserve favored beliefs. There's nothing "scientific" or even very rational about their actions if the latter is the case.

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