Religion

Many other cultures have similar transitions in their creation stories. So when one considers oral histories and how garbled something gets when it's passed through several people much less several thousands of years... who knows specifically what happened, but the fact that our right and left hemispheres can at times work more together (more in women than men for some reason) makes me wonder if our brains weren't messed up at some point in history.

WERE WE actually smart enough to have created the pyramids on our own? Did we have advanced skills that supersede our present technology? WHY do we only use 20% of our brain at the genius level?

When you call me a "literalist" and then say we have no more to discuss, surely you jest. I simply think that it's one possible explanation and that if we really had all the facts we would see why the story was passed down that specific way.

Why is it so completely far fetched to believe that the Garden of Eden was an actual place? Do you disbelieve in Disney World? Lot's of fantasy going on there, but it's a real location in time and space that has a set of rules and people who go there in physical space and time. Do you disbelieve what is said about the Aztecs? I'd like to, it turns my stomach to think about it, but I think of it in anthropological terms and I accept the general hypothesis.

The real message for me is very compatible with life on DU, don't look only at the numbers, don't rely only on your gut feelings. Research them both and get as close to source material as possible. I think this "knowledge of good and evil" can be a distraction because people want to put easy labels on it so it's everyone else that is at fault.