Your point, sadly, is quite easily grasped.
The question was asked as a mental trip for our bretheren, Mgray82, and your posts are an attempt to shame those who seek to answer.
However, we are evaluating it from both a biblical/theological basis, literal and factual.
That is what good apologetics requires. Our apologetics must be able to answer not only those questions posed by athiests, but also literal fundamentalist, and for other Catholics.
Humans are created, you can say that creation began via evolution with our cenancestor -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUCA.
As far as you are concerned, from your perspective as an athiest, it is a series of chance collision of molecules and organelles driven by a volitile climate that over time led to modern humans. Very factual.
Also, as far as an Adam and Eve, even the most ardent athiest scientist would say that, genetically, every human on the planet, is decended from one man, Y-chromosomal Adam,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Adam, and one woman, Mitochondrial Eve,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve, from the fertile pains of Africa, a “garden” of life and diversity. Very factual.
At that point in time, our genetic recent common ancestors, scientically designated Adam and Eve, were certainly not vegetarian. Very factual.
Now give me truth.
Again I ask, explain the complexities of human behavior, evil, love, hate, murder, in such a way that it will be transported and understood, and bear true for millenia.
The reason why literature last, why myth last, why myth is universal to humanity–you can study Joseph Campbell here–are not so much for the facts – although there are many facts contained in them – they last for the truths the convey.
You have made reference to Alice in your post. Is that because it holds truths for you or because of the facts in the story. Is it for the real Alice for whom it was written, or the factual reasearch used to back it up, or the truthful nonsense of it that particular myth?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland.
There is also what our biblical authors did in the two different, but similar creation stories.
They gave us an abundance of TRUTH. Truth which has been borne out in scientific studies again and again.
It took humans until the advent of modern genetics to understand that there was an Adam and Eve, who evolved in a fertile African plain. The written Bible, beat genetic science to those facts and that truth by 3000 years.
Truths about the facts of human behavior, as described in the bible, and of human history, have also proven true. I would say, there are a multitude of facts in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. The most important of which is that we are created, flawed, beings.
Therefore the question as to what Adam and Eve ate, and why, are intrinsically linked with the question of evil, since evil, and the reason for it’s existence, is a question of human behavior. It is NOT, as you say,
“another whole subject,” especially given that the entirety of the Bible, of human history, and likely of human existence, seeks to answer that question, among others.
More importantly, the Bible is filled with an abundance of truths, which melded the faith and reason of our the Biblical authors, which continued to be borne by the ancient Church, and which is certainly still present in the modern church.
I am, as are many others, are answering, but you are intent to stick your mental foot so that we might have a mental trip.
I am almost entirely certain that you understand what you are doing, and that you understand our answers.
Your apologetics are geared toward athiesm, ours is geared toward our faith, based on reason.
Please do not assume that because we are people of faith we are fools bent on sliding down the rabbit hole.
Would you be as opposed to a Kirk v Picard fight, and who would win? They are far more fictional, but to some, they are just as sacred, and to yet some others, total nonsense.
