you say this, but you know that the story is condensed wisdom, and i did not insist at all that it was evolution, understand; i have just found parallels that make that a possibility, and after all it has very little bearing upon my works unto rebound, my seeking after Christ. I could fill the page with arguments like that "dust of the earth" image, or the lady with fur image, maybe bring testimonies by people with fur, describing how hot it is in the summer, or we could take a poll, maybe, or examine how dogs came from wolves, or how coywolves came from coyotes and wolves, but imo all these would be purposely avoiding the real lesson, the spiritual one, which is contained just fine in the literal reading of the passage, with the understanding that you are reading something that is alive, and can be read differently later. As long as you don't start knowing, because then you are done. You say there is no truth in it, and i say that i would not presume to know what truth looks like, wadr. Absolute truth would surely kill me right now. See that it is kind of a humility/pride thing, and you end up spending a lot of energy on things that you can't prove anyway, and they can't prove their pov...and this should be a sign, that you are now involved in mental masturbation, and not even discussing or reflecting upon the real lesson. I'm perfectly fine with A&E not having navels, and Eve eating an apple from a literal tree, after literally talking to what became a snake, etc, if that is where you are at. All i can suggest is that there are other interpretations, eating from a "tree of knowledge" might indicate some other, more spiritually meaningful action, which even you might agree with, and on from there.
If the point is just to gather arcane knowledge, without fruit, that will become apparent, too. And that can be very appealing, i have been sucked into that, and might be again, who knows. Invariably those lead you away from the Book though, and don't produce fruit, works unto rebound iow, which actually encompass much more than not sinning btw, i am not "sinning" when i ignore some little thing that i could do the night before, whatever it is, that i notice coming up most every evening at about this certain time, say, that would remove some stress that i note the girls are going through the next morning--which is really on them, they left it there, and i am the man of the house, after all--until i am shown that i could just do this little thing anyway, on the way out for my evening smoke--or not do something, even, whatever--and relieve the morning stress, which i see that i was actually ignoring it on purpose, so i could have a "teaching" moment, or a "superior" moment, that next morning, so, been plowing my own ground there for years, a la Cain, and just irritating the women--because of course i was "right"--when all i needed was to understand that i am Eve, in a sense, or that in this case that i can be "a woman, chattering in church," too, and of course i always ignored those passages because they were supposed to be about Paul admonishing actual women about talking in actual churches. Lol.
anyway, don't know how clear that is, but the point is that if it doesn't produce fruit, prune it off. A literal understanding is fine, at one stage, and becomes inappropriate after a time. I just watched a video, going around right now, two pre-schoolers arguing, coming to blows basically, about whether it was "raining" or "sprinkling" out. Adults aren't much different, i guess.
