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The History Of Money: From Barter To Banknotes

04/11/2013 09:30
Money, in and of itself, is nothing. It can be a shell, a metal coin, or a piece of paper with a historic image on it, but the value that people place on it has nothing to do with the physical value of the money. Money derives its value by being a medium of exchange, a unit of measurement and a...

Origins of Money and of Banking

04/11/2013 08:51
by Gyn Davies The history of credit and banking goes back much further than the history of coins. Nevertheless the story of the origins of money goes back even further still. The origins of money in its various forms, and of banking, are discussed in the book by Glyn Davies.  [Read more]...

Are we all descended from a common female ancestor?

04/11/2013 08:29
by Josh Clark In 1987, a group of genet­icists published a surprising study in the journal Nature.­ The­ researchers examined the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) taken from 147 people across all of today's major racial groups. These researchers found that the lineage of all people alive today falls on...

Genealogy from Adam to the Twelve Tribes

04/11/2013 08:26
by John P. Pratt These charts contain the genealogy of all mankind for the first 1700 years, and of Abraham's line down to the sons of the twelve sons of Israel, about 500 years later. The genealogy of the wives of these twelve is also included, as well as that of the wives of many of the...

Chart of the Human Genealogy from Adam

04/11/2013 07:48
Chart prepared by Dr. Robert E. Bliss We are all descendants of Adam and Eve and then Noah and his sons. Genesis 1-11. According to the Bible there is no such thing as different "races" of people. We are all part of the human family. We are all physical brothers and sisters. Acts 17:26. ...

Biblical and Sumerian Accounts: Parallelisms

04/11/2013 07:45
Commonly Christians argue that these myths simply show that the myths only show that pagans have twisted the myths over time, and that the biblical versions are the original unaltered truth. Texts in the bible telling who wrote it and where they came from tell another story. These biblical texts...

How many children did Adam and Eve have?

04/11/2013 06:13
The early chapters of Genesis are concerned with the origin of the Earth and all life, including man. The Author's intention is seemingly to present the grand picture first and then add certain details throughout the rest of Scripture; this is called Progressive Revelation. All we are told about...

Derivation of the Adam & Eve story from the Epic of Gilgamesh

04/11/2013 06:09
Peter Myers Walter Mattfeld shows (item 4) that the authors of the Book of Genesis in the Jewish Bible reworked the earlier Sumerian/Mespotamian origin stories, reversing their meaning to create a counter-myth overthrowing, as it were, Sumerian civilization, and instead portraying Jews as the...

Adam and Eve According to Ancient Sumerian Texts

04/11/2013 06:06
The story of Adam and Eve is often treated as an allegory, but in reality is quite likely a great deal closer to factual history, a story of genetic manipulations at the Dawn of Man, by a group of extraterrestrials who commit the ultimate in “Prime Directive” Violations.  [Read more]...

Life of Adam and Eve

04/11/2013 06:02
From The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament R.H. Charles Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913   When they were driven out from paradise, they made themselves a booth, and spent seven days mourning and lamenting in great grief. But after seven days, they began to be hungry and started...
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