Yeah, they don't often think about those little contradictions in logic. The story is clearly allegorical anyway.
@Ann-
Yes, but remember, if they didn't know the difference between good and evil, they couldn't know that disobeying their god was wrong.
Since statistics show that we have a far higher average level of education than Christians, and that most American atheists were RAISED Christian, NEITHER.
If you want to blame upbringing you'll have to look harder at your own parenting practices- like shoving religion down the throats of...