Sin and death

[Bucky Ball]

And Adam's still at it, wiping out whole species now.

If you go by the parameters of that myth, Adam has to be a victim himself logically speaking. 

God made a rigged bet with Lucifer that neither Adam or Eve had knowledge of or any say in. They were basically poker chips in a rigged bet.

The great Doctor of the Church, Thomas Aquinas, said (I think it was in the "Compendium").
that the reason the tempter went to Eve first, was that "the light of reason shone less brightly" in her.. A mysogenist, if ever there was one.
I was in the library at Gethsemane Abbey, in Kentucky, always having been a fan of Thomas Merton, had become a friend of the Abbott there. I still visit there every June .... when I first read that.

In those years I came to realize Merton had most likely broken his vows, (see "Beneath the Mask of Holiness"), as well as having been murdered by the US secret information services, as he was about to publish against the Viet-Nam war, which would have been a disaster for the US as Catholics loved him. The monastery recognized this, but chose to deny it. Now there is a fairly new book about all this in a book by Hugh Turley. Well worth the reading and the discovery of the photograph of his murdered body, ... not the electrocution as they claimed. "The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton"

Actually Eve and the "rib" and all sorts of other things, came directly from Babylonia mythology, (what didn't ?). 
Details on request. (Our paper "Salvation, Mythic Origins", had one of the highest hit rates on the old TTA). 
Written when I was in "Divinity School" 10 years ago.