Has the Garden of Eden been located? New scientific research, coupled with coordinates laid out in the Bible itself, mean it may indeed be possible to determine the garden's location on a modern map. This shouldn't be all that surprising of a development. Archeology consistently validates the historicity of Biblical geography. Even non-believing archeologists recognize that the Bible describes real places. (For lots more on this, here's a great article by my favorite author Paul L. Maier)
But what about the Garden of Eden? Most Christians believe it was a real place, but unlike Jerusalem or Rome, its ancient location is not obvious. Yet the Bible does offer a surprisingly detailed description of the Garden of Eden's location. The problem has always been that that researchers could not find two of the rivers mentioned in the Biblical description. Modern hydrological sciences have recently solved that problem, giving scientists all the data necessary to triangluate the Garden of Eden.
But the data didn't add up. Until recently, that is—when Phd hydrologist Ward Sanford offered an elegant solution. You can read his full report here (scroll down for the details). But first, watch our video above to find out where the Garden of Eden likely was (or is).
Aren't the only people who believe in an actual Garden of Eden Biblical literalists? And don't those people think the Earth is younger than the date of the last Ice Age?
ReplyDeleteNo, not really. While there are many "young earth" creationists, the majority of Christians believe the earth is indeed billions of years old. But that doesn't preclude a belief that the Garden of Eden was a real place. You can read a lot more about this at: http://www.reasons.org/human-origins/adam-and-eve
ReplyDeleteI have an ex-roommate who was 'Young Earth' creationist.
ReplyDeleteYou can't actually find the garden of eden, you can only guess where it is. The bible says that and angel guards the way to the garden of eden. So that means you can't find it because and angel guards it.
ReplyDeletein theory, they say that the angels guard the way to the forest. But there have always been folklore/bible proof that only chosen ones can see or even get to what is there. I'm just stating that it is what have been duplicated the most
ReplyDeleteThe Bible is not folklore it's history, you can watch some biblical archeology vids on youtube. :)
ReplyDeleteCreationism on the other hand, actualy has some pretty good points putting together everything in perfect order- underground oil and gas, strata, ice age, dinosaurs (read on modern day dinosaurs), supraorbital ridges and DNA which evolution can't. I'm a student of dental medicine former FIRM believer in evolution but I was honest enough to do some research without denying the facts stated at me and there are some pretty amazing things. If you take the Biblical record every "mystery" to science as to how the Earth was created fails to be mysterious any longer. And think about it: I have a 132 IQ and am a skeptic. For me to KEEP(!) believing it's either I'm deluded enough or it's true from a psychological perspective atleast. I've done alot of research. Evolution struggles! God bless you.
Luckily you're not going to be a real doctor, so it doesn't really matter whether or not you believe in evolution. Good luck understanding the behavior of the microbial flora of the human mouth without it, but I'm sure you'll do fine just memorizing it.
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