Wesley Tracy tells about a letter he once received. “I have hundreds of biblical photographs,” the letter said, “including several of the Garden of Eden.”

“Wow!” says Tracy, “I have seen and taken a lot of photos of biblical places—tiny mustard seeds on the Mount of Olives, the Temple courtyard, and the Lord’s supposed birthplace guarded by a soldier with an automatic weapon—but Eden? Did they have cameras in [Eden]?”

“Where was Eden anyway?” he asks with tongue firmly in cheek. “Though a headline in a supermarket tabloid screamed, ‘Adam and Eve’s Skeletons Found South of Denver,’ Eden was not in Colorado. Where was Eden?” he asks innocently.

That’s the question a student once asked Dr. Carlyle Marney. Marney put down his pen, turned to the college freshman, and replied, “I can tell you…