Talk:Garden of Eden

Article very short

The article, in my opinion, needs a great deal of meat! I suggest laying it out in this fashion:

• The Biblical account of Eden
• any extra-Biblical account of Eden
• The physical description of Eden
• the conclusions of David Rohl, who matched Eden's physical description with a site in northwest Iran.

Karajou 03:58, 11 March 2007 (EDT)

...Or too much?

Whilst I agree that the article needs expanding, the material about the descendants of Adam and Eve belongs in a different article. Philip J. Rayment 10:55, 18 March 2007 (EDT)

...although it would still be considered incest

What does this phrase (that was removed from the article) mean?

• That it was still immoral? No, that's already been answered in the article.
• That it still involves sex between closely-related people? That's already been said.
• That it still involves someone forcing their affections on someone else (as a father on a daughter)? No, that's not what incest actually means (although it frequently has that connotation), and that is not the situation here.

So I see no reason for that phrase being in there.

I'm not happy about the reference to intercourse with Eve (besides, why not a daughter with Adam?), as that would be adultery, but between married brother and sister it would have been okay at the time.

Philip J. Rayment 09:37, 20 March 2007 (EDT)