| I take my cue from Anna who patiently explained to the Kind of Siam that those who wrote the Bible were not men of science but people of faith. Since the story itself would not have been written down until at least the invention of writing (and more likely no earlier than 900 or so BC), there would not have been anybody in the Garden taking notes leaving a lot of room for speculation by future historians.
Most modern theologians take Genesis 2 as allegory--not untrue but an illustrative explanation of how things came about. The story of Adam and Eve and their progeny was a theological explanation of the 'why' of things showing that God was the author of everything and also offering an explanation of how, through human disobedience, sin was introduced into the world. The subsequent stories of Cain and Abel, the Tower of Babel, and eventually the Flood story further illustrated how sin spread into family, then the culture, and then throughout the world.
In short God was the author of a perfect Creation that we screwed up and He takes care of us anyway.
" I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1776 |