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Originally Posted by well named
Can you briefly outline the proof of the falsity of the creation story? Were you trying to prove only that it couldn't literally be true?
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yes, mostly the literal stuff
if i recall, my biggest beef was with the tree of knowledge
Whether it was a metaphor or not, it still does not make sense
for example, assume the tree was what it says it was. That Adam and Eve had no way to reason before eating from the tree. They did not know right from wrong or good from evil.
God tells them to eat from the tree
A serpent tells them not to
How do they know who to listen to if they do not yet know right from wrong or good from evil?
They listen to the snake, and get punished severly. If a 6 month old child does something wrong do you punish him? Of course not. Why not? Because he does not have the capacity to know right from wrong or good from evil yet. Since God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent .. he knows this already. So it would make absolutely no sense for him to punish Adam and Eve for listening to a serpent over him. Especially the harsh ridiculous punishments he gave -- "Because you disobeyed me, childbirth will be painful" .. wat? and to the serpent "because you tempted eve, you will forever crawl on your belly for now on." wat?
Also -- as soon as they ate from the tree they were embarrassed about being nude and covered themselves. This has been proven by science and nudist colonies to be impossible. Being naked is natural. Our society teaches us to be embarrassed, so some people are .. but it has nothing to do with our knowledge of reasoning, right and wrong, and good vs evil. So there is no way on Earth eating from the tree of knowledge would cause them to be embarrassed of their nudity.
The other theory is that the tree was not really anything special, and God said it was to test Adam and Eve. But then the embarrassing nudity thing makes no sense at all either