Garo Vartabedian

Sources

What this site is built from.

This is the audit trail for the eight research worlds. The individual pages keep source links beside the exact claims; this page explains the source standard and gives representative records for each world.

Claim-level links prioritize original texts and objects, courts, museums, universities, public archives, and rights holders. Broad reference works are used for orientation, while disputed or single-source records are labeled rather than presented as settled.

Source group

Scripture texts and indexes

The hosted Bible reader uses public-domain texts and local generated indexes. The raw source manifest remains in public/scriptures/SOURCES.md; this page gives readers a human entry point.

Method

  • Verse text is taken from public-domain source files and kept unmodified except for markup stripping and whitespace cleanup.
  • Book codes, verse numbering, cross-references, and topic links are generated locally so links resolve into the hosted reader.
  • Translations that are not public domain are discussed in the Word room, not hosted as scripture text.

Representative records

Source group

Jesus history and artifacts

The Jesus history room separates Christian texts, non-Christian literary witnesses, and archaeological objects. Each record keeps its own source line next to the claim it supports.

Method

  • Early Christian letters and Gospels are dated first, with literary dependence kept distinct from independent attestation.
  • Non-Christian witnesses are quoted from public-domain translations or public source records.
  • Artifacts are used to establish setting, offices, places, and practices; the page does not make those objects mention Jesus when they do not.

Representative records

Source group

The apostles' records and roads

The Apostles world keeps three layers apart: what the New Testament states, what early sources within about a century add, and what only later tradition supplies. Every claim wears its grade on the page.

Method

  • Scripture refs use the hosted public-domain reader, so every citation resolves to the verse itself.
  • Mission and death claims name the earliest surviving source that states them — not the fullest or most famous retelling.
  • Where the earliest sources conflict or fall silent, the page shows the conflict or the blank instead of choosing a legend.

Representative records

  • Eusebius, Church Historyprimary text

    Carries the earliest mission list (Origen, book 3.1) and the Papias, Polycrates, and Abgar records used for the roads.

  • 1 Clementprimary text

    First-century Roman letter used for the Peter and Paul martyrdom records.

  • Irenaeus, Against Heresiesprimary text

    Second-century witness for John at Ephesus and the apostolic succession claims.

  • Acts of Thomasprimary text

    M. R. James's Oxford translation of the early apocryphal romance behind the India tradition — used as tradition, graded as such.

  • Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran (UNESCO)reference

    Object record for the St. Thaddeus Monastery shrine tradition.

Source group

Early Christian writings

Hosted early writings are public-domain translations. Each text page names its date range, translator, source link, and survival notes where the data has them.

Method

  • The hosted text is presented as a witness to early Christian memory, not as canon unless a tradition receives it as canon.
  • Translator and source are shown above the text before commentary or visual material.
  • Survival notes distinguish manuscript evidence from later reception claims.

Representative records

Source group

Church history records

The Church road uses dated events with inline source links and public-domain quotations where possible. Broad reference sources are used for orientation; primary texts carry the quotation load.

Method

  • Every road step has a source URL in the data.
  • When an era speaks in its own words, the quote has its own source line.
  • Dark chapters are sourced beside bright ones rather than separated into a disclaimer.

Representative records

Source group

Angels and demons

The Angels room is intentionally narrow: ranks, names, enemy titles, and encounters come from scripture references that resolve into the hosted reader.

Method

  • The order page counts linked references across bands, names, and enemy titles.
  • Deuterocanonical names appear only where that canon contains them.
  • Later angelology is identified as later tradition rather than blended into the core order.

Representative records

Source group

How We Know: evidence and inference

This world is the site's connective method: it does not place text, artifact, witness, experiment, philosophy, tradition, and theology on one undifferentiated ladder. Each record is labeled by evidence class and used only for the kind of question it can answer.

Method

  • Cross-world cases link back to the source groups above, preserving the provenance rules of the world where each record originated.
  • Scientific claims begin with research agencies, consensus reports, or peer-reviewed literature; observations remain separate from metaphysical conclusions.
  • Philosophical arguments expose their assumptions and serious alternatives rather than presenting one interpretation as measured fact.
  • Theological and traditional claims are grounded in scripture, ecumenical confession, and clearly named communities; confessional sources are labeled as confessional.
  • Every case ends with a limit statement describing what its evidence cannot establish.

Representative records

  • Reproducibility and Replicability in Scienceconsensus report

    National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Methodological control for what repeatability, reproducibility, and replicability can establish.

  • Webb Telescope and the Big Bangresearch agency

    NASA. Public account of the observable early universe and the cosmic microwave background.

  • Hubble: The Big Bangresearch agency

    NASA. Cosmological account that also states the open question of what triggered early inflation.

  • Fine-Tuningphilosophy reference

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. A mapped debate covering the evidence, design arguments, multiverse proposals, and objections.

  • Trinityphilosophy reference

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. A critical survey of historical and analytic attempts to articulate Trinitarian doctrine.

  • Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creedecumenical creed

    World Council of Churches. The fourth-century confession that defines the theological claim rather than a scientific finding.

  • Catechism §§232–267: The Father and the Trinityconfessional source

    The Holy See. A Catholic formulation that creation may bear traces while the Trinity remains inaccessible to reason alone.

  • The Holy Trinity in Creationconfessional source

    Orthodox Church in America. An Orthodox account of interpreting creation through the Father, the Word, and the Spirit.

  • Science, Evolution, and Creationismconsensus report

    National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Consensus orientation for the science of evolution and the boundaries of scientific explanation.

Source group

Bible ownership and copyright

The Word room treats ownership claims as documentary claims. It cites rights-holder permission pages, public license pages, court records, and publisher notices.

Method

  • Owned translations cite the owner or publisher permission page beside the card.
  • Case studies cite court records, public statements, or the best available public account when a private licensing dispute is the only record.
  • Free translations cite their own copyright or licensing statements before they are linked as hosted texts.

Representative records

How this audit trail was built

The source layer is part of the site’s engineering proof: shared source data, reusable source-basis blocks, static route generation, and browser-verified pages.

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