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Passages in the [[Gospel of Mark]] and [[Gospel of Luke]] recount disciples eating ears of [[corn]] on the [[Sabbath]].  "Corn" and the [[Greek]] word for it is broader than [[maize]] and could have included grain, but ears of corn can be more attractive than ears of grain.  Throughout the 20th century historians taught that maize originated only in [[North America]] and was introduced into [[Europe]] only by explorers such as [[Christopher Columbus]].  “George Beadle wrote in a 1980 Scientific American article, 'the development of corn by the Indians remains man’s more remarkable plant-breeding achievement.'”<ref>https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/11/the-mysterious-origin-of-corn.html</ref>

Passages in the [[Gospel of Mark]] and [[Gospel of Luke]] recount disciples eating ears of [[corn]] on the [[Sabbath]].  "Corn" and the [[Greek]] word for it is broader than [[maize]] and could have included grain, but ears of corn can be more attractive than ears of grain.  Throughout the 20th century historians taught that maize originated only in [[North America]] and was introduced into [[Europe]] only by explorers such as [[Christopher Columbus]].  “George Beadle wrote in a 1980 Scientific American article, 'the development of corn by the Indians remains man’s more remarkable plant-breeding achievement.'”<ref>https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/11/the-mysterious-origin-of-corn.html</ref>

Really??  Plant-breeding of corn by only [[American Indians]]?? Though not [[politically correct]], more sophisticated research in the 21st century reinforces the [[Gospels]] by showing that [[maize]] originated in [[Germany]] and northern Europe early enough to disprove the [[atheistic]] theory that it originated only in North America.

Really??  Plant-breeding of corn by only [[American Indians]]?? Though not [[politically correct]], modern research reinforces the [[Gospels]] by showing that [[maize]] existed early enough in [[Italy]] (depicted in a fresco by 1517) and [[Germany]] (in a herbal by 1542)<ref>https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20.500.11850/150485/eth-30594-02.pdf</ref> to undermine the implausible [[atheistic]] theory that it originated in [[Europe]] only from [[Christopher Columbus]] bringing it back to [[Spain]] on March 15, 1493.

==History==

==History==