They found the Garden of Eden?....

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Anyways, most of you probably already know that the Bible basically steals lots of stories and such from other religions and cultures. I am not going to get into all that unless you want me to, but I did find it interesting that they actually traced back Eden using a satellite.

It says in the Bible that Eden is located at the source of four different rivers, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Karkun, and the Pishon rivers. The problem is, that these rivers do not connect, and the Karkun and the Pishon rivers do not exist.

They used the satellite to make a 3D composite of the surrounding area, and discovered that two large rivers existed running into the Persian Gulf. Around the time of the last ice age, the Persian Gulf was much lower, possibly didn't even exist, and all four rivers connected at a single delta.

Anyways, TONS of ancient stories are now being fully explained because of this. For instance, man was naked in the garden of eden and gathered plentiful food. We can assume that these were nomadic people who were now able to settle down because there was so much food they didn't need to gather anymore. Staying in one spot, they eventually discovered that the food they ate could grow back. With this knowledge, they considered themselves to be like gods, or equal to God, eating from the tree of knowledge. As punishment God cast them from the garden of Eden. It is known that around this time, the glaciers had melted, and that the ocean in the area actually collapsed in on itself due it rising above a mountain range. In the Bible it says that God punished Adam and Eve, and the people of Noah's time, for sinning. To people who use gods to explain the world around them, this must have been quite a sight. Supposedly for months it was 500x the amount of water that Niagara Falls moves going down the mountains flooding the garden. This created the story of Noahs ark and the great flood as well. All of these stories were passed along from Mesopotamia and eventually made their way into the Bible.

It is kool as hell that these stories weren't actually made up, but described actual cataclysmic events in our ancient past that our ancestors recorded. We even get a minds eye into the transition from "caveman" to "civilization", that occurred much longer ago than ever originally thought, passed down through word of mouth.