I'll let the answer already given above by Liberal Classic another chance to strike you:
From a Jewish perspective, the conflict over the Kansas school board decision is ironic. Maimonides wrote that science is one of the primary paths to knowing God, and for that reason the Bible commences with a description of the Creation. Throughout the Bible, knowledge of God is compared with the wonders of nature, as stated so well in Psalms (19:2): "The heavens tell of God's glory, and the sky declares his handiwork."
We may learn about God from the study of nature (science). God is not opposed to science, He is revealed through it. Anyone who studies creation and fails to marvel at it is missing a crucial sense.
Isn't that what Adam shows us that God's provision is more important than our"aquiring the knowledge"?
That cat is out of the bag. We can not go back to a state of animal-like ignorance. Especially since God has, since Adam, gone out of His way to provide us with special revelation about Himself, culminating in the Revelation of Himself as Jesus Christ.
What we must do, as fallen humans, is attempt to use our intellects to further our understanding of God. We do this both through the study of His direct revelation to us (Scripture, etc.) and through the study of His indirect revelation through His Creation. If there is some conflict you find between the Creator's words and his Creation, the problem lies somewhere with your understanding of one or the other or both.
To believe in a God who created according to the literal interpretation of Genesis is to believe there is a God so set on deceiving people into disbelief in Him that He planted fossil evidence and warped the behavior of carbon in order to "test" the faithful.
That's codswallop. God's Creation is not a huge game of "gotcha" where we're supposed to believe not our senses, but a particular literal understanding of a figurative text.
SD