Posted on 02/27/2009 9:47:03 PM PST by Steelfish
Do these mysterious stones mark the site of the Garden of Eden? By TOM COX
For the old Kurdish shepherd, it was just another burning hot day in the rolling plains of eastern Turkey. Following his flock over the arid hillsides, he passed the single mulberry tree, which the locals regarded as 'sacred'.
The bells on his sheep tinkled in the stillness. Then he spotted something. Crouching down, he brushed away the dust, and exposed a strange, large, oblong stone.
The man looked left and right: there were similar stone rectangles, peeping from the sands. Calling his dog to heel, the shepherd resolved to inform someone of his finds when he got back to the village. Maybe the stones were important.
They certainly were important. The solitary Kurdish man, on that summer's day in 1994, had made the greatest archaeological discovery in 50 years.
Others would say he'd made the greatest archaeological discovery ever: a site that has revolutionised the way we look at human history, the origin of religion - and perhaps even the truth behind the Garden of Eden.
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Agriculture - 8,000 years ago.
Thank goodness for global warming. (Temperatures around 8,000 years ago had finally become a bit more stable, and warmer after the last Ice Age.)
Very interesting argument
The Garden of Eden, recorded in the Bible, would have been wiped out by the Flood, another event recorded in the Bible. If you take one, you need to take the other.
Thanks for the article and the ping. I’ve been rereading The Earth Chronicles by Zecharia Sitchin and this was fascinating in light of that.
WAY before that! Conan had excellent steel in his yataghan blade.
> WAY before that! Conan had excellent steel in his yataghan blade.
(Big Grin!) So it is recorded in the Chronicles of Aquilonia...
If even part of the 13,000 ya dating is correct, this could have been before the comet extinction of north american development. That would explain a large gap between this and the next finds of civilization. Does anyone know what dating methodology they used?
...that victims were killed in huge death pits, children were buried alive in jars, others roasted in vast bronze bowls.
This sounds much more recent — what Muslim Turk savages have done to the Christian peoples in just the last century.
While I am really glad that this great 13,000 year old human (or was it ABs) monument has been found I am disturbed that he tries to make the change human cause.
Another big time Al Gore Climate Change guy, that is saying humans are responsible for the demise of the earth.
If the small number of humans caused a climate change in one area of Syria or Assyria or whatever it was called at that time, then they must have also caused the climate change in the Gaza and other deserts of northern Africa and elsewhere. When the ice age started to go about 10,000 years ago the climate changed as it has over millions of years, going from cold to hot, due to the normal cycles of the earth.
The estimates vary by at least four thousand years, i.e., I don’t think *any* m method has been used. :’)
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There is another reason why liberals are innately authoritarian. Free people will not willingly succumb to socialism. Simply stated, most will not "get with the program".
Consequently, to achieve their dreamed-for utopian society, massive coercion is required. This necessarily requires true believers to be in charge and to exert their authority over the non-compliant masses.
You can't run the socialist state without a strong man...and a supporting group of elite apparatchniks.
this is a seriously interesting article.
“Only idiots believe Eden / Adam / Eve to have been real. “
I’m sure you are certain of the reality of that talking snake and that woman who was made out of a bone.
Yeah, and no one should believe that God himself came down to earth as a man to be an atoning sacrifice for sin.
Heck, IS there even such a thing as sin? I mean, I guess if you’re “out of alignment with [your own] values” you might be considered to be sinning.
So, there’s really no need for a Savior, because sin isn’t real.
The bible is just a collection of fairy tales.
Yep, only idiots would believe any of this stuff...
(/sarc?)
I didn’t question the idea of sin, or the evolution of morals within societies, that keep it together. The principle of reciprocity is a common theme in all functional societies.
The talking snake and the rib-made woman, now that is baloney.
The cataclysmic change of the earth’s surface during the flood would have wiped out and destroyed any vestiges of the Garden.
You especially won’t find a flaming sword, I’m sure.
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