A viewer asks: “Creator, the first 20,000 years of human history is described as Paradise in the Garden of Eden. Why is it called the “Garden of Eden?” What does the word “Eden” refer to?” What can Creator tell us?

This is a reference derived partly from language and partly from mythology of an earlier era that was pre-literary and pre-language in terms of those who eventually recorded the story of the Creation and the early events of those times. There are theories, but there is no easy nonleading way to lay this out for you, which we cannot do. There are many things we need to leave to the human scholars to argue over without our taking sides.