Was the Garden of Eden near modern Iraq in the Middle East by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
We have absolutely no idea today where the Garden of Eden was located. The Bible describes the Garden as being associated with four rivers that arise from one source. This description does not fit with the location of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers today. Furthermore, this area of the Middle East is on top of thousands of feet of rocks containing billions of dead things. Since death came into the world after Adam and Eve sinned, you cannot have the Garden of Eden sitting on top of billions of dead bones showing evidence of diseases, pain and suffering. Also, the entire world was destroyed by the flood of Noah’s day. The Garden of Eden would also have been destroyed. During that global flood the continents probably split apart forming a totally different looking earth to that earth before the global flood.
