A Question About Deception

Hi Randman,
You said... But don't you now have to think up a reason for God to have made this occur? And what changed in the story?
Also if this is the case then the world was simultaneously, created in six days, and is as old as science suggests, in which case why argue for a young earth?

No offense, but this theory opens up some vast problems imo.
The story of the fall has always looked silly to me. God punishes Adam and Eve for breaking a rule. The rule is not to eat the fruit.
Eating the fruit is an evil/sinful act, but without eating the fruit, they cannot understand this.
Catch22? I thought so.Now, tho it appears that the eating of the fruit, which caused man's ability to commit evil, may have caused them to decide to eat the fruit in the first place.
But it's even more nosensical than punishing them for becoming capable of understanding good and evil, which is a perrequisite of being good.
Make any sense to you?

This doesn't change anything in my view, how were they supposed to make the "right" choice without understanding what "right" is? This makes no sense to me whatsoever, what's carnal knowledge got to do with moral knowledge?