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re: Was the Amazon Rainforest Man-Made??

Posted on 1/17/18 at 10:26 am to
Posted by Arksulli
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Posted on 1/17/18 at 10:26 am to
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And yet, that's what it appears to be.




Unfortunately, the "Garden of Eden" has pretty well been established for a long time. That particular story refers to fertile crescent of the Middle East in modern Iraq where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet.

As hard as it is to believe today that area of Iraq used to be a bountiful agricultural center that allowed several ancient empires to flourish.

Tens of thousands of years of intensive farming have slowly lowered the fertility of the soil and when the Mongols shattered the Abbasid Caliphate they also did an impressive job of wrecking the intricate system of irrigation that had made Baghdad the center of the Muslim world.

Add in some impressively lousy land management, particularly when Saddam Hussein was in power, and you get the desertification of Iraq.

Posted by BoarEd
The Hills
Member since Oct 2015
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Posted on 1/17/18 at 10:35 am to
Perhaps. But again, you are using the Bible as your source of information with zero evidence to support it. In fact, the area you propose doesn't even match the biblical description.

ETA: Here is what John Calvin had to say about the location of Eden:

"Moses says that one river flowed to water the garden, which afterwards would divide itself into four heads. It is sufficiently agreed among all, that two of these heads are the Euphrates and the Tigris; for no one disputes that . . . (Hiddekel) is the Tigris. But there is a great controversy respecting the other two. Many think, that Pison and Gihon are the Ganges and the Nile; the error, however, of these men is abundantly refuted by the distance of the positions of these rivers. Persons are not wanting who fly across even to the Danube; as if indeed the habitation of one man stretched itself from the most remote part of Asia to the extremity of Europe. But since many other celebrated rivers flow by the region of which we are speaking, there is greater probability in the opinion of those who believe that two of these rivers are pointed out, although their names are now obsolete. Be this as it may, the difficulty is not yet solved. For Moses divides the one river which flowed by the garden into four heads. Yet it appears, that the fountains of the Euphrates and the Tigris were far distant from each other."
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