Edenic Hypothesis (Garden of Eden Location)

THE IDEA THAT THE GARDEN OF EDEN EXISTED IS FAITH BASED, NOT SCIENCE BASED...AND THAT IS JUST FINE. 😉

Restoration Christians for the most part reject both literal creationism and atheistic evolution in favour of intelligent design.

Hypotheses about the location of the Garden of Eden are a popular subject among restoration feligresi.

After AltHist, my second favourite story passtime is Edenic hypothesis.

There is no reason to assume that the Garden of Eden was located in pre-Noachian flood Mesopotamia.

I propose 3 alternate (nicer) location possibilities, which reconcile with earth geological history.

1) The Eemian Baltic / Finnoscania Island
2) Ancylus Lake, early holocene Scandinavia
3) Last Interglacial Florida (same geological era as Baltic Eemian)

Emmanuel Swedenborg maintained the Garden of Eden had been located in Scandinavia; a region he called Swedonia.

(Disclaimer: The Aria AI clarified this is an apocryphal claim about Swedenborg)

Ponce de Leon explored Florida looking for the "fountain of youth", perhaps that myth evolved from the concept of Tree of Life located at Eden.

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Jehovah Witnesses are not literal creationists, they are believers in the intelligent design of the rules that govern earth geological processes.

However, Jehovah Witnesses reject the idea of different hominid species, they believe Neanderthals (who according to Secular Paleo-Anthropology, dominated Last Interglacial Europe) were primitive pre-Noachian flood humans same as us.

https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/Reasoning-From-the-Scriptures/Creation/