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Turkey the land of human history’s new beginnings?

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  by Damien F. Mackey   So, about a millennium and a half after humanity had first emerged upon the earth, from the dust, humanity again emerged thereupon, this time from the Ark.     “Is Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe the Beginning of Human History?”, asks Jacqueline Swartz (2025): Is Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe the Beginning of Human History? - Travel & Cultural Analysis From Around the World | East-West News Service   Well, yes and no, would be my answer.   Let me explain.   About a millennium and a half after humankind had appeared on the face of the earth, beginning in Eden, which was not in what we now call Turkey, but in what we now call Old Jerusalem:     Where Paradise was located   (2) Where Paradise was located   there occurred a massive Flood – the Genesis (Noachic) Flood.   The Flood’s only survivors were the “eight persons” (I Peter 3:20), or ancestral progenitors (Noah and his...
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Genesis, Flood, Ark Mountain

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    by   Damien F. Mackey       I have previously pointed to the ironical - and I think humorous - situation whereby the likes of an anti-fundamentalist professor Plimer can sometimes be clearer about certain principles of biblical exegesis than are those who embrace sola scriptura; whilst the latter can sometimes, here and there, be more scientifically accurate than are the professional scientists.     ARK MOUNTAINS Hopeful Ark-eologists have climbed the high, snow-capped Mount Ararat (Ağrı Dağı) in Turkey in search of remnants of Noah’s Ark. These, captivated by boat-shaped natural rock formations in the area, some with iron-like weathered volcanic materials, will claim to have discovered the massive boat complete with its, so they think, iron filings or brackets.   It appears that Byzantine Christian explorers, keen to locate famous biblical mountains, had locked onto the most impressive ones, such as Mount ...
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