[phoenix_fire]

Now that that's outta the way...

I suppose that you could say that humanity would have lived on in blissful ignorance of the War going on outside. They would have had everything they needed. They wouldn't wonder whether God existed because He'd still be walking with them in the Garden. There wouldn't be pain or pointless toil or sickness or hunger or anything like that.

Or, another possibility is that the serpent would've just tempted Adam instead. A lot of male supremacists like to say that the serpent went after Eve because it was picking off the inherently weaker of the two (woman), but I think that's utter b.s. I think it just went after whichever was closer at the time. There was a 1 in 2 chance that it would've been Adam instead. Point is, regardless of order, they both ate the fruit. But I digress.

I think, however, that if Adam would have eaten the fruit first, the male supremacists would say that the serpent just picked the more intelligent and influential of the two. Men are men, no matter how you look at it. Sexual psychologists would say that no matter how you looked at the ancient traditions, men would still have used it to oppress women and call them inferior, historically. This is due to the nature of their respective roles in sexual intercourse. The shrinks are probably right.