>Definitely don't want to postjack, but it's called the fruit
>of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Sex is an animal
>impulse... people have had sex since before they were people.
>The bible dates the earth at about 10,000 years, which is
>really how old civilization is, roughly. We had been human for
>probably 40,000 years already at that point.
>

the bible dates our civilization to be about 5600 years old...

the pyramids were built abt 11000 years ago

Most artifacts now date homosapien to be about 40,000 years old

but the first civilization on this planet began about 450,000 years ago and it wasn't human or terra astral.

the tree was called as such but however to find your truth you have to learn the old testament.

Throughout the old testament the term "to know" is used to denote sexual intercourse, mostly between a man and a woman for the purpose of having children. the tale of adam and eve is the story of a crucial step in Man's development: the acquisition of the ability to procreate.

As the serpent predicted, by partaking of the tree of knowing they had become - in sexual matters- "as the deity knowing good and evil."

If this meant only that Man had become to recognize that having sex with animals was uncivilized or evil, why were Adam and eve punished ofr giving up sodomy? the old testament is replete with admonitions against sodomy and it is inconceivable that the learning of a virtue would cause divine wrath.

The "knowing" that Man obtained against the wishes of the deity----or one of the deities------must have been a more profound nature. it was something good for man, but something his creators di dnot wish him to have.

we have to read carefully between the lines of the curse against Eve to grasp the meaning of the event:

"And to the woman He said:
i will greatly multiply thy suffering by the pregnancy
In suffering shalt thou bear children, yet to thy mate shall be thy desire
And the adam named his wife eve for she was the mother of all who lived."

This indeed is the momentuous event transmitted to us in the biblical tale; as long as Adam and eve lacked "knowing" they lived in the Garden of eden without any offspirng. having obtained "knowing" Eve gained the ability and (pain) to become pregnant and bear children. Only after teh couple had acquired this "knowing", Adam knew his wife and she conceived cain.

Perhaps another line would be : Genesis 3:22- And the most high said "behold man has become like us, knowing both good and evil"

Meaning now man is able to procreate like us and as such has the knowledge to now give life and take it away.