Quote Originally Posted by Niya View Post
I find this laughable. I mean come on...one of those myths blames the rotten state of the world(where things like 9/11 can happen ) on a talking snake that convinced a woman to each a magic fruit. Of all the ridiculous theories about our past, this really takes the cake. There can be no more truth to that than there can truth to the existence of beings like the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, Dracula, and werewolves.
No it doesn't. This is the whole point. You are treating it as a literal truth in order to dismiss it as a myth which is the equivalent of using a rule from hockey to determine a decision in baseball. The depressing fact that a lot of 'believers' do exactly the same thing explains why it all gets lost these silly arguments about whether it really happened or not which is nothing to do with its truth value.

This particular myth says that the reason things went wrong for human beings was (and is) a combination of the inability to resist temptation, a rabid desire for knowledge wherever it may lead, and just plain old cat-killing curiosity (of the 'what happens if I press this big button marked "Do Not Press This Button Because It Will Blow Up Half The Northern Seaboard" variety'). In that, it is the equivalent of Douglas Adams wondering whether it was a good idea for us to come down from the trees in the first place, and if not the whole truth then certainly a turth with not much more than a slice missing.

Your assumption (and that of a lot of idiot creationists) that it is meant to be 'real' is a category error par excellence and more importantly one which is demonstrably not made by the original collector, interpreter and editor of those myths which make up Genesis.