God knew that Adam and Eve would eat the fruit sooner or later and he still went forward with his plan. God set the scene the trees, the fruit, the garden, the serpent, the man and his wife even the sacrifice to give a picture of Christ. (Rom 5:14) Do you believe that God intended for man to know good and evil?
I was thinking that maybe God was testing his creation on wther or not his guidance would be accepted before revealing the tree of life. Testing his obedience.