Do you believe in the garden of Eden?

[Rose]

Okay so here's why the story of Adam and Eve makes no sense, and I'd love to hear a rational response even if that is a shot in the dark.

1) Carnivores. I've heard people say that people, and animals started eating meat once god banished them from the Garden of Eden, but that would mean god "designed" them to survive on a meat based diet, before anyone ever ate meat. The teeth, and digestive tract are "designed" for meat consumption. So either god tricked man into sinning so he could fulfill the purpose of his "design," or he changed all his creations after the Garden of Eden. Which is it?

2) Cells. If nothing died how did Eve eat the apple? In order to pick and eat the apple the cells of the apple must die.
To: child of the sun
"can anybody show me where in the bible it says eve ate an apple?"

Ummm it's right there in Genesis
3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

[Liberal AssKicker]

Yes.

(I think you're reading too much into both the story and what people say about it.)

The story was written about 2400 BC, give or take, and it was written by people who were extremely primitive compared to us. They didn't write complex stories as we like today, they wrote in simplicity and brevity.

None of the modern theories work on a story like this. You can only take what the story says, no more, no less.

(If you go to this web site: http://cdli.ucla.edu/ , click on the "cdli search" and type in the word "eden", you'll find that the place was mentioned over 200 times on tablets between 2500 and 1800 BC. So yes, it was an actual place. This site, by the way, is UCLA's on-line library of ancient texts.)