The Fall as Allegorical Fiction.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I don't think that people who had no idea what evolution was could have ever intended to write an allegorical account of evolution.....it's an allegorical account -of the human experience- as experienced, by the originators of the tale and their intended audience.

Not Human Experience - it is the human ability to create Fiction

But -- us writers are always told, "Write what you know." And while the story might be fiction, the deeper truth is not -- it is what the writer knew, as his moral truth. That is, I think, the point Rhythm is making, if he'll forgive me for summating it so.