The entire "Garden of Eden" story is so manifestly stupid, and contains so many plot holes, that only ignorant, piss-stained pre-scientific nomads could have thought it was a good idea to include in their mythology, and even then, only after partaking of various hallucinogens. Because at bottom, the story consists of:

[1] Mr Invisible Magic Man conjures into existence two hapless stool pigeons, ensuring that they are bereft of both the capability for ethical knowledge, and the presence of that knowledge;

[2] Mr Invisible Magic Man then arranges for a supposedly "perfect" universe to be set up, in such a manner, that the moment any of the two hapless stool pigeons eat a certain piece of magic fruit, the whole set up will be buggered irreversibly from that point on;

[3] Mr Invisible Magic Man then tells the two hapless stool pigeons, not to eat the magic fruit;

[4] So, having set up the system, in such a manner that the two hapless stool pigeons can only genuinely know whether or not eating the magic fruit is wrong, by going ahead and eating it (and thus acquiring both the capacity for ethical thought and the requisite knowledge they were previously lacking);

[5] Then, along comes a magic snake which had the ability to talk (funny how talking animals tend to appear in a lot of hallucinogen visions, which is why this story starts to acquire the hallmarks of a mushroom bender), and tells the hapless stool pigeons that Mr Invisible Magic Man lied to them;

[6] Of course, being hapless stool pigeons, they have no way of knowing whether or not the magic talking snake is telling them the truth, is lying to them, or for that matter was actually sent there by Mr Invisible Magic Man in order to set off the whole Mouse Trap Game edifice;

[7] Eventually, the inevitable happens, and like toddlers let loose in a chocolate factory, they start helping themselves to the magic fruit;

[8] Then along comes Mr Invisible Magic Man, who says "Gotcha!", whereupon the entire universe is buggered up from that point on, and Mr Invisible Magic Man apportions blame not only to the hapless stool pigeons, but all of their descendants, who had nothing to do with any of this shenanigans because they hadn't been born yet;

[9] As a consequence of this shitheap of a story being cooked up by some piss-stained nomads after a mushroom party, and incorporated into their mythology, generations of humans since have had to suffer all sorts of misery, ranging from the multifarious consequences of the misogyny inherent in the tale, through various instances of people being pounded to death with rocks because they failed to conform to rules that were largely completely arbitrary, all the way to the modern malignancies we see blighting the human species emanating from this source.

And the supernaturalists who try and peddle the mythology in question, claim we are the ones who are arrogant, deluded and immoral, simply because this mythology and its farcical introduction triggers off the bullshit alarms of anyone with a decent number of functioning neurons?

Indeed, in any modern jurisdiction, the ethical incompetence of the two hapless stool pigeons, during the commission of the alleged "offence", would have immediately been used as a pretext for declaring a trial null and void, by any competent defence lawyer. Modern jurisdictions accept that persons with medically significant cognitive deficiencies are not responsible for their actions. A completely nonfunctioning ventromedial pre-frontal cortex, which is what these stool pigeons would have had to have, in order for this tale to be something other than an ex recto fabrication, certainly counts as a medically significant cognitive deficiency in any modern courtroom. Even a junior defence lawyer could have easily secured an acquittal on this basis. Even though the hapless stool pigeons would no longer be hapless stool pigeons after the event, they would surely have sufficient reliable memory of their pre-enlightened state, to be able to give a competently honest testimony on the matter.

Look, if anyone out there wants their mythology to be treated as fact, at least put some fucking effort into making said mythology something other than a textbook example of bad proofreading, bad character development and bad plot construction.