Now that we know that heaven exists, should we bomb it?

So this is supposed to be the Garden of Eden? A garden supposedly built by God to last an eternity? Looks like it couldn't even make it past a few thousand years...if there is a god, he sure seems half-assed.

I'm confused if the allegory of the GOE is sticking or not.

pfft... every good mormon knows the garden of eden is located in modern missouri


also, i can find you libraries full of evidence that the giza pyramids date back about 15,000 years and were put there by aliens.

the story is interesting but im skeptical when articles say these large temple sites predate civilization by such a wide margin

I always love how we uncover these rare items of antiquity and immediately we start labeling it as The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, or the Colussus of Rhodes. -sigh- Human optimism to blame, I suppose.

I doubt farming is the only reason that made this land arid and infertile. If this site is really that old, it was there even before the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the Holocene. The Younger Dryas before the Holocene was the last cold snap. According to wiki it transformed a lot in the area:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas
"The Younger Dryas is often linked to the adoption of agriculture in the Levant. It is argued that the cold and dry Younger Dryas lowered the carrying capacity of the area and forced the sedentary Early Natufian population into a more mobile subsistence pattern. Further climatic deterioration is thought to have brought about cereal cultivation. While there exists relative consensus regarding the role of the Younger Dryas in the changing subsistence patterns during the Natufian, its connection to the beginning of agriculture at the end of the period is still being debated. See the Neolithic Revolution, when hunter gatherers turned to farming."

Also after the Younger Dryas, the end of the last ice age would have coincided with a ~100m rise in sea level, maybe prompting stories of a great flood, later morphing into Noah's story.

That young punk Dryas has it coming. He's so cocky and loud, some day a real man will come along and knock his block off.