Evolution

[Drich]

Sorry, I don't know if this has been discussed/answered already, but where is it that the Garden of Eden used to be in the world? Or it's not possible to tell?

Genesis records it to be bordered by 4 rivers.
10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. 11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel;[b] it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

We don't know where the first three are, but the Euphrates run through the middle of Iraq. So some where under the sands of the desert out in Iraq.. Which could be the explanation of what God did to protect it from ever being found. (He place an angel with a sword set a blaze to guard it) Being scorched and under the sands of the world largest desert, would ensure no one ever found it again.

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So let's see if I've got this straight.

You (alone, apparently) are suggesting that the time span (in Genesis) between "In the beginning..." and "GTFO of Eden" was 5.4 billion years minus 6,000 or so?

Edit to add - ... and that during this time, the Earth and all of it's life forms evolved as they appear to have done, while inside of Eden, everything happened according to Genesis?

Pretty close!

so during the 5 odd billion years where life evolved outside of Eden into these monkey-men of which you speak, who are(genetically) identical to humans but have no soul.

And considering that man is made in gods image.

It would appear then that evolution seems to have done a remarkable job in building an exact replica of Gods image using only the power of natural selection(minus the soul of course)... ?

You can look at it two ways. Either an all knowing God created Man in the Garden to reflect the current evolutionary progress of monkey man at the time He knew the fall would happen. Or He influences the events that shaped monkey man to reflect what He had created...

"Or maybe it's alittle of both"
-Forrest Gump