"Eve listens to him and realizes that the fruit will allow her to attain the knowledge necessary to fulfill another commandment--to be fruitful and multiply."

Interesting. I know it's illegal everywhere now, but is this how Mormons - if I understand it correctly - justified the marriage of multiple women to one man?

"Daniel Quinn"

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I've had this link queued up all morning trying to figure out how to fit it into the comments.

This, of course, is the lamest of all possible ways to stuff it in but, if people really want to understand why we have told our selves The Bible Story, Ishmael explains it to Walter pretty much perfectly to me. Gato references the same with Something Bigger Than Ourselves.