[[Thanks for your replies.
I think that one thing that has bothered me about Genesis is why it did not have some basic information about the nature of things that was unknown at the time. It would have been quite compelling if it had said that the earth went around the sun, or that the speed of light was 186,000 miles/second (or whatever it was in cubits), and that the speed of light is constant for all observers. Or that e=mc2. Facts all known by our Creator, and which would have won over a lot of doubters as the centuries passed.]]
Man had hte chance to know all that- however he (and by extension we) decided that we didn’t want that, and chose our own understanding over God’s and we ate the apple, just as God asked us not to do. The curse of sin brought on hardship and one of htose hardships was that man would always have to work his brains out to make it in this life. We valued our own understanding over God’s, and it was OUR pride that caused this- We htought hten, just as we do today, that we are more knowledgeable than God and that we can take care of ourselves and don’t need Him- just look at how intense the fight is to kick God out of the public spotlight and schools and public arenas- our pride STILL refuses to admit we need help from a Moral Agent.
Where exactly is it written that anybody ate an apple? That is no different a fairy tale than the we are descendants of apes.
Who is trying to kick God out of the public spotlight?
As far as kicking God out of the public schools and arenas, I assume you are referring to public prayers. I would ask you to remember the admonition in Matthews that God does not believe in public prayer, that he knows everyone’s thoughts anyway, but that if one must pray, pray privately where no one can see you, not in public view like the hypocrites.