Why wouldn’t I believe it? Jesus did. Who are you-—who is any man-—to contradict Him & to say we should believe differently?
Your version is all conjecture, all dreamed up by men who couldn’t bring their intellectual, enlightened selves to believe the Scriptural account.
Genesis is a gift given to us by God. He related to us in simple terms His stunning act of creation. Why bother twisting oneself into a pretzel to try and make it mean something else when it’s THERE?
Jesus confirmed it. The Lord referred to Genesis as historical fact. Was He wrong? Mistaken?
Nope.
And I don’t know where on earth you got the idea the fruit of the tree was an apple. Seriously? I’ve only ever heard that from people who never opened a Bible. Wow...very strange.
Jesus taught in parables. The use of symbolism and allegory is always used to communicate the profound. In this case the sacred profound.