Posted on 11/21/2002 11:50:10 AM PST by Ready2go
CIA Releases New 'Noah's Ark' Documents Posted Nov. 13, 2002 By Timothy W. Maier
Is it the Ark, or just a piece of rock?
Two years after Insight filed an appeal charging that the CIA withheld documents and imagery concerning the Mount Ararat anomaly in Turkey, the CIA has released two new documents to Insight that indicate the search for "Noah's Ark" reached the level of the White House under former president George H.W. Bush.
The appeal, filed one month after Insight's exclusive story (see "Anomaly or Noah's Ark?"; Nov. 20, 2000), comes on the heels of the CIA's releasing thousands of satellite images, which soon will be available at National Imagery and Mapping Agency Website. It is unclear whether images of Mount Ararat will be included. Insight's exclusive story marked the first time the public was able to see high-resolution photographs of the anomaly, located at 39 degrees 42 minutes north latitude and 44 degrees 16 minutes east longitude. Insight contracted with Space Imaging to maneuver its IKONOS satellite to zoom in on the anomaly. Afterwards, Insight hired a team of scientists and engineers to examine the pictures and to deterimine whether the object in question was man-made or rock. Four of the experts claim it's man-made, two believe it's rock and one says the evidence is inconclusive.
Unfortunately, the release of the additional records does not offer any more proof of what the object might be, but only raises more questions as to why the CIA continues to hold such records as classified.
One of the records released is a 1995 memo from an agent who had a coversation with John Hanford, then a member of Sen. Richard Lugar's (R-Ind.) staff. Hanford apparently recalled a White House meeting under the George H.W. Bush administration in which Robert Gates, then National Security director, showed one of the old images of the Mount Ararat area to various people at the meeting. "Mr. Hanford said that imagery showed something sticking out from the ice and snow but that it could have been almost anything."
The memo was triggered by a newspaper article that suggested Mount Ararat imagery might be made public under former president Bill Clinton's decision to release historical documents. The CIA agent says in the memo that such imagery "might or might not be included in the declassified materials."
The other record concerned a review the George H.W. Bush administration conducted between 1990 and 1992 concerning Mount Ararat. The record was in response to former CIA director James Woolsey's requesting what it might cost to undertake a more exhaustive review of all the material. At the time, the price was considered too high to do such a search. Woolsey was told it would take an analyst six months to complete such a study. It appears that study never was completed.
Insight still may receive additional records. The CIA has asked other agencies to review specific records for possible release in the near future. In the meantime, Insight is reviewing its options on whether to pursue in federal court images taken by the CIA with its KH-9 remote-sensing satellite in 1973 and its KH-11 satellite in 1976, 1990 and 1992.
Timothy Maier is a writer for Insight. email the author
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2. Most believers feel that Noah had only the domesticated or useful animals, such as cattle, sheep, goats, chickens etc. on board his craft...not every last animal and species on the Earth.
3. The Ark of the Covenant, together with other relics of the Moses era, are in a catacomb under the northern part of Jerusalem's Old City.
4. Many Armenian families have pieces of the Holy Ark [of Noah] treasured from the era of roughly 1780-1880 when it was more accessible atop Ararat than it is now. Other relics may have been retrieved from it much earlier as well and it is a rare Armenian sanctuary that does not have any at all.
Scientists have found that almost all dogs share a common gene pool after analysing the DNA of hundreds of dogs from Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.
They have concluded domesticated dogs originated from wolves in East Asia nearly 15,000 years ago.
The animals travelled with humans through Europe and Asia and across the Bering Strait with the first settlers in America.
Swedish and Chinese scientists studied the genes of 654 dogs and found a higher genetic diversity among East Asian dogs suggested that people there were the first to domesticate dogs from wolves.
The scientists said in a study presented in the new issue of the journal Science: "Most earlier guesses have focused on the Middle East as the place of origin for dogs, based on few known facts - a small amount of archaeological evidence from the region, and the fact that several other animals were domesticated there," said lead researcher Peter Savolainen of Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology.
A separate study by researchers in the US, Latin America and Sweden said dogs with DNA linked to Eurasian wolves were present in the Americas before the arrival of European explorers in the 15th century...
Story filed: 19:02 Thursday 21st November 2002
From: Ananova:http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_713600.html
Same article was also posted on FR yesterday.
You should read Genesis, before making your silly statements. Genesis 1 says God created "kinds" of animals and plants. The Hebrew term is "baramin." The definition of "kinds" relates to how animals reproduce. If they can interbreed to produce fertile offspring they are of the same "kind." The definition of species (or definitions, since scientists use at least a couple of different ones) is quite different.
Further science would assert that the divergence of Asian Elephants and African Elephants occoured much longer than the time frame you are suggesting.
This may be true, but I'll bet you're just making it up. If not, show me.
With regard to insects the story does not include an exemption for insects. Two of each animal was to be put upon the Ark.
The Bible says that all animals that breathed upon the earth were destroyed if they were not on the Ark. It even refers to animals with "nostrils." (Gen. 7:22) All I am saying is it certainly did not apply to all aquatic species, and may not have applied to insects. Again you should read the book sometime if you're going to claim to be such an expert on it.
So I guess the next question is "How long can YOU tread water?"
Gen 7:21: And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23: And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
So there were no Dodo birds on the Ark?
Cool. I'd like to see that replicated. Take two German Shepherds, isolate them and their offspring for 150 years, and count how many of them are Chihuahuas and how many are St. Bernards at the end of the experiment.
All I can say is tell the CIA to forget about Noah's Ark and concentrate on the DAMNED ISLAMIC TERRORISTS!
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