Where is the Garden of Eden?  I watched a really interesting documentary, part of the Myth Hunters series found on Netflix, Youtube, and CafeMom.  They noted that the garden story is so vague that it could be anywhere.  The film notes that a Boston University president felt is was in North Pole, Mormons felt it was in Missouri, Columbus thought it was in Venezuela and others have claimed China.  Does it even exist?  Of all people, an atheist believes he may have found it!

Researcher Juris Zarins from Missouri State University noted that every civilization has had a creation story, and some of the stories pre-date the story told in Genesis.  He wondered why so many cultures tell this story, and wondered if the Garden of Eden may have actually existed.  He noted that the Bible story bears remarkable resemblances to the Epic of Gilgamesh.  Some of the details are quite similar to the story of Adam and Eve.  He felt the Bible stories were plagiarized by the Hebrews who heard these stories from the Sumerians who have an older creation story that is 8000 years old. Continue Reading »