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This is really good stuff.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/ ... ic=ancient
So, place yourselves in what is now known
As Qatar, 700k years ago.
hoka hey
john
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If I did, I would be about to trek to southern Iran across what is now the Persian Gulf but which was then above sea level, en route to Asia, Australia, and the Americas.john wrote:So, place yourselves in what is now known As Qatar, 700k years ago.
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The Gulf, that long ago, sounds like a paradise....just like the Sahara. Why would anyone voluntarily leave?
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
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Maybe it was Forum Monk's Golden Age Garden of Eden?Minimalist wrote:The Gulf, that long ago, sounds like a paradise....just like the Sahara. Why would anyone voluntarily leave?
Ishtar of Ishtar's Gate and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
There is a theory that the “Head” of the rivers mentioned in Genesis
about Eden refer not to the starting point in the mountains, but to what we would now call the “mouth” of the rivers.
There were four of them and it would make more sense for 4 rivers to have a common low point than a common high point.
The Tigris and the Euphrates still empty into the Gulf.
And satellite imaging shows a least one river that drained the Arabian Peninsula did as well.
So the concept of Eden being at the bottom of the Persian Gulf is not unheard of.
about Eden refer not to the starting point in the mountains, but to what we would now call the “mouth” of the rivers.
There were four of them and it would make more sense for 4 rivers to have a common low point than a common high point.
The Tigris and the Euphrates still empty into the Gulf.
And satellite imaging shows a least one river that drained the Arabian Peninsula did as well.
So the concept of Eden being at the bottom of the Persian Gulf is not unheard of.
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Who can say?
http://www.crystalinks.com/gardenofeden.html
http://www.crystalinks.com/gardenofeden.html
The origin of the term "Eden", which in Hebrew means "delight", may lie with the Akkadian word edinu, which itself derives from the Sumerian term E.DIN. The Sumerian term means "plain" or "steppe", so the connection between the words may be coincidental, although this word is known to have been used by the Sumerians to refer to Mesopotamia as the "valley of E'din", meaning the fertile lands between the Tigris and Euphrates.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
-- George Carlin
-- George Carlin