Dear 13-year-old,

When Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden to go out into the forbidding world, all the landmasses were together. If you took a map of the world and looked at the contour of the eastern shores of North and South America you would find that they match pretty closely with the western shores of Europe and Africa. Then, if you could see into the abysmal depths of the Atlantic Ocean, you would find that the deepest trench between the two landmasses follows a course rather parallel to the two shores. When the landmasses came apart, maybe that's were it happened.

The earth didn't break up into more than one peace (Did you know that the word, Continent, doesn't occur in any of the scriptures? The ancients called different lands that were surrounded by water, Isles.) until the time of Peleg. We read in Genesis, 10:11 “And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided.”

Peleg was born 1753 years after Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, or in 2247 BC, and he lived for 239 years. Adam lived for only 930 years, so he died 1453 years before Peleg was born. Peleg wasn’t born until 100 years after the flood. He was a descendent of Shem, one of the three sons of Noah.

So the earth was divided sometime between 2247 and 2008 BC. Therefore, Adam, who lived in the Garden of Eden, near what is now Jackson County, Missouri, could have gone anywhere in the world without a boat.

Gramps