No.

Posted: August 14th 2010

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Not in the sense of the biblical version—a perfect place with just one man, a woman, a snake, and a peeping tom of a god. Our human culture is peppered with stories of idyllic places like Shangri-La, etc. It is what we do. We think of something that we would like to exist, and then we tack that fantasy onto something real that is close to what we would like, and then we spread the meme.

So the Garden of Eden is probably related to some real place at that time, but other than that aspect, no, the Garden of Eden did not and does not exist. Read here about what real places might have inspired the myth of the Garden of Eden.

Posted: August 13th 2010

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