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Quote: from newman at 10:14 pm on Aug. 24, 2008

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The Garden of Eden is, according to the Bible, near four rivers that are a bit north of the continent of Africa anyways. As in, the Middle East.

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Everything I've read suggested the Chad area.

FP

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I guess that doesn't include the Bible.  You should read it before you argue about it.

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Quote: from FurryPanther at 9:16 pm on Aug. 24, 2008

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Quote: from newman at 10:14 pm on Aug. 24, 2008

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The Garden of Eden is, according to the Bible, near four rivers that are a bit north of the continent of Africa anyways.  As in, the Middle East.

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 Everything I've read suggested the Chad area.  

 FP

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I guess that doesn't include the Bible.  You should read it before you argue about it.

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I've read the Bible many times, and it really doesn't say much about the location of Eden.

FP

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Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

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Quote: from newman at 10:19 pm on Aug. 24, 2008

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Quote: from FurryPanther at 9:16 pm on Aug. 24, 2008

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Quote: from newman at 10:14 pm on Aug. 24, 2008

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The Garden of Eden is, according to the Bible, near four rivers that are a bit north of the continent of Africa anyways. As in, the Middle East.

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  Everything I've read suggested the Chad area.

  FP

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 I guess that doesn't include the Bible. You should read it before you argue about it.

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I've read the Bible many times, and it really doesn't say much about the location of Eden.

FP

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Look up the Euphrates River, which was one of the four rivers that flowed out of the Garden of Eden (according to the Bible.)  I would provide you with more information but I am preoccupied right now.

Now I myself don't want to make any conclusions as to whether Adam and Eve were black, because the bible doesn't specify and they probably didn't exist quite like they did in the bible anyways.

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Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

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They would have been black.

Change in skin colouration, along with other adaptations, has to do with prolonged exposure to a certain environment, not purely genetics.

FP

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The environment can change someones skin color, but even if it went from very light to very dark, it wouldn't be passed on to the kids unless the kid grew up in the same environment.  The environment doesn't change skin tone genetically.  That's like saying the children of a man who lost an arm in a war could be born with one arm, based on what happened to their father... That's just plain incorrect.

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Quote: from FurryPanther at 11:01 pm on Aug. 24, 2008

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They would have been black.  

 Change in skin colouration, along with other adaptations, has to do with prolonged exposure to a certain environment, not purely genetics.  

 FP

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The environment can change someones skin color, but even if it went from very light to very dark, it wouldn't be passed on to the kids unless the kid grew up in the same environment. The environment doesn't change skin tone genetically. That's like saying the children of a man who lost an arm in a war could be born with one arm, based on what happened to their father... That's just plain incorrect.

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I think what FP meant was that over generations skin color would change.

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Sexual innuendo.