Do you believe in the Garden of Eden at all????
Nope!
Our species came out of Africa some 150,000 years ago!
Various myths have evolved concerning the origin of the human... the Adam and Eve narrative is based on eariler myths.
Has anyone been to somewhere in between the Euphrates and Tigres, in the place now called Iraq? Does that fit the Garden of Eden better?
Neither fits the literal history of the human. However, the middle east is certainly where humans first started to settle down. No question about this.
But here is how it works. The place in Missouri was where the Garden of Eden was, but when it was there it was before two cataclysmic events-the dividing of the continents and the world wide flood, and this is how it works in LDS belief. So, the terrain and the geography is nothing like what it was back then.
Before the dividing of the continents? Really? Like 250,000,000 years ago? ;-)
~dancer~