According to Genesis, Eden was placed
between 4 great rivers which scholars deem to be in the Middle East, Iraq and Syria Zagros Mountain range in Iran
Looking at the Linear A / B languages, the distribution pattern of
phonemes and the DNA diversification patterns of humans, it seems contradictory
that all of these point to an African genesis, rather than an Eden
Although pre-Christian Jews did not consider the Garden of Eden to be a
physical place, Augustine of Hippo was the first notable Christian scholar to
advance the view that Eden
If the Genesis
version of man is to be believed, that line of humanity must have travelled some
3000km to Africa, amassed a huge population and developed a base language from
whose roots all others emerged, then spread throughoput the globe. A plausible
scenario provided Christianity accepts a creation timeline greater than 4,000
years.
The migration from Eden to Africa would have
taken approximately 100,000 – 200,000 years. (scientifically speaking)
In 1987, A worldwide survey of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was
published by Cann, Stoneking, and Wilson in Nature magazine. Its main point was
that "all mitochondrial DNAs stem from one woman" and that she
probably lived around 200,000 years ago
in Africa .
The Biblical
timeline of man sets creation beyond 4000BC but never says how far beyond. Is
this again a case of the timeline of the creation being put at a time distance
well beyond any period for that culture to comprehend thus making the “creation
event” a “believe” only event, not a proven one?
The 4th millennium BC spans the years 4000 through 3000 BC. Some of the
major changes in human culture during this time included the beginning of the
Bronze Age and the invention of writing, which played a major role in starting
recorded history.
The city states of Sumer
and the kingdom
of Egypt Eurasia .
World population in the course of the millennium doubled, approximately from 7
to 14 million people.
Human beings have been living on earth for over a million years, but for
a long time there were not very many of them. The world’s population was never
higher than 10 million. People died quickly because they didn’t have enough
food to eat.
When Jesus Christ was born about 2,000 years ago about 300 million
people inhabited the earth.
If creation was
about 4000BC and the great flood was about 2350BC (1650 years after Adam, and
the tower of babel was set in 2250BC , 600 years after the flood, millions of
people must have been born in an extremely short period of time to account for
the diversity of languages and mitochondrial DNA patterns which science
attributes to 100,000 + years of evolution and population growth.