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Do These Mysterious Stones Mark The Site Of The Garden Of Eden?
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | February 27, 2009

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: adamandeve; anatolia; archaeology; catalhoyuk; catalhuyuk; creationism; discovery; eden; gardenofeden; gobeklitepe; godsgravesglyphs; oldearthspeculation; origins; prehistory; religionofatheism; sanliurfa; turkey
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1 posted on 02/27/2009 9:47:03 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

The 6k nuts will be by to scream blasphemy.


2 posted on 02/27/2009 9:50:16 PM PST by arealconservativeforachange (Tell JD Hayworth to run for McCain's seat! http://www.jdhayworth.com/contact.php)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping!


3 posted on 02/27/2009 9:50:22 PM PST by JennysCool (Internet Powerhouse)
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To: arealconservativeforachange

In before the 6k nuts start. Good call.


4 posted on 02/27/2009 10:01:15 PM PST by freeplancer (McCain Voters Catch the Lobsters-Obama Voters Eat Them)
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To: Steelfish

WOW. This is mind-blowing stuff, and entirely plausible. Amazing carvings, ay — particularly for something 13,000 years old!

This is straight out of the days of Conan the Barbarian, in the Hyperborean Age.


5 posted on 02/27/2009 10:02:51 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: arealconservativeforachange
The 6k nuts will be by to scream blasphemy.

And why should that bother you?

6 posted on 02/27/2009 10:04:06 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Yes, Gorbachev is better than Obama. At least Gorbachev admitted he was a Communist)
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To: Steelfish
There were herds of game, rivers of fish, and flocks of wildfowl; lush green meadows were ringed by woods and wild orchards. About 10,000 years ago, the Kurdish desert was a 'paradisiacal place', as Schmidt puts it. So what destroyed the environment? The answer is Man.

I'd say it's just as likely that the retreating glaciers changed the climate here to that of Saudi Arabia.

7 posted on 02/27/2009 10:05:59 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Yes, Gorbachev is better than Obama. At least Gorbachev admitted he was a Communist)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Read his posting history he is something of a bait troll.


8 posted on 02/27/2009 10:07:52 PM PST by ansel12 ( Am I the only freeper that has been held in an American internment center 1971?)
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To: ansel12
Read his posting history he is something of a bait troll.

I gathered that. He surely added nothing of value to this thread.

9 posted on 02/27/2009 10:10:53 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Yes, Gorbachev is better than Obama. At least Gorbachev admitted he was a Communist)
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To: Steelfish

This is a fascinating article, if someone has links I would like to read more about this.

That part about the massive covering up of the site seemed unusual that is a lot of labor.


10 posted on 02/27/2009 10:11:27 PM PST by ansel12 ( Am I the only freeper that has been held in an American internment center 1971?)
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To: Steelfish
humanity's innocent and leisured hunter-gatherer past, when we could pluck fruit from the trees, scoop fish from the rivers and spend the rest of our days in pleasure

Ho-ha, someone has a sense of humor at least. Why we should all just up and become hunter-gatherers; since it's such a paradisiacal mode of living. And I just love the little bit of rhetorical projection at the end; paradise was lost because of ...

... wait for it ...

... human caused climate change! Who could have guessed?

11 posted on 02/27/2009 10:12:34 PM PST by eclecticEel (Wall Street isn't a charity ... so why are we giving them money?)
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To: arealconservativeforachange

And just who are the 6k nuts?


12 posted on 02/27/2009 10:12:44 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Steelfish
Fascinating article. I've always believed we short-change our ancestors in terms of their knowledge. I think their societies were far more sophisticated than we believe.
13 posted on 02/27/2009 10:15:06 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Steelfish
Awesome and eerie. Click on the photo at the link below for some extraordinary pics.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html#

14 posted on 02/27/2009 10:16:56 PM PST by this_ol_patriot (I saw manbearpig and all I got was this lousy tagline.)
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To: arealconservativeforachange

There are 6 thousand nuts who don’t think Mulberry trees are sacred?
What is this place coming to.


15 posted on 02/27/2009 10:17:51 PM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: this_ol_patriot

Thanks- the Smithsonian URL is great!


16 posted on 02/27/2009 10:21:11 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: freekitty
"And just who are the 6k nuts?"

The Ussherite YECs -- like the one who typically spams the FR news forum at least once daily with garbage editorials from YEC websites...

17 posted on 02/27/2009 10:26:56 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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To: Steelfish

Thanks for posting. That was extremely interesting and something I knew nothing about. Good read!


18 posted on 02/27/2009 10:34:24 PM PST by Boanarges
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To: arealconservativeforachange

I don’t think so... Everyone knows there were neither clocks or calenders back then.


19 posted on 02/27/2009 10:36:05 PM PST by babygene (It seems that stupidity is the most abundant element in the universe)
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To: Steelfish

Wow. Stunning story, fantastic post.


20 posted on 02/27/2009 10:37:50 PM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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