[CobaltBlue]

One version of the Out of Africa theory has our African ancestors crossing into the Middle East - Israel, the Sinai, Iraq - and then spreading East and West from there, so maybe his ancestors DID come from the Garden of Eden - if by that he means a place located in the Middle East.

I think the evidence is very compelling that everybody whose mitochondrial DNA has been studied so far is descended from a few people in Africa maybe 100,000 years ago, but I also think it's theoretically possible for earlier ancestors to have evolved elsewhere, spread to Africa, hit some kind of bottleneck there, and died off everywhere else.

So, I have no problem at all when someone wants to argue Garden of Eden, or even Adam and Eve. Speaking metaphorically, in some sense, they could be right.

[Modernman]

So, I have no problem at all when someone wants to argue Garden of Eden, or even Adam and Eve. Speaking metaphorically, in some sense, they could be right.

I certainly have no problems with people using metaphor. However, we both know that when creationists on this thread refer to the Garden of Eden or Adam and Eve, they're speaking literally without any evidence to back up their claims.