Jumpin said:
Dr.Grass said:
Jumpin said:
Well, like the City of Atlantis, the Garden of Eden is fictional; probably based on Mesopotamian Gardens, like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. You don't need any documentary or additional texts other than the Bible to see where the authors wanted it to be located. It is written to exist in the Middle East, probably at the location of southern Iraq given the text; which mentions 4 rivers including the rivers Tigris and Euphrates.
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Atlantis is not necessarily fictional.
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Atlantis is as fictional as Thomas Moore's Utopia. It was invented by Plato in the text Timaeus and Critias to contrast the ideals of his previous work "Republic". It wasn't really until the 1600's and Francist Bacon saying that Atlantis might have been North America, that people actually seriously considered that it might be real. Plato didn't consider it real, as he wasn't writing history.
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You assume it is fictional because of your beliefs, not because of these so-called facts listed here.
A quick glance at wiki shows that these things are disputed/argued/etc. Not OBVIOUSLY fictional.
There was an island off the coast of India called Dwarka that sunk 5000 years ago according to Indian scripture. Recent archeological evidence has been rather interesting, indicating that it perhaps did really exist.
So who are you to say these things?
Modern man is really too arrogant about all of these things. He doesn't know enough to say for certain.
