The serpent, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.

[Tonus]

It is not the following after of knowledge that is messed up.
It is the folly of excluding the seeking of the most important knowledge in this life.

Adam and Eve were not cursed for not seeking the most important knowledge. They were cursed only for seeking a particular kind of knowledge. Considering that they had direct access to god for an untold amount of time (billions of years, to hear Drich tell it) there is no reason that they would not have been granted "the most important knowledge" with no concerns about interpretation or understanding. And yet, when told by a snake that it was okay to disobey god, Eve didn't even hesitate. And the story tells us that Adam took what he was given without question.

It amazes me that anyone would blame the man and woman for their action, when years and years of direct access to the lord almighty had absolutely no impact on their desire to act independently. Even the angels in heaven seem unimpressed by god, if many of them abandoned heaven and joined Satan after his own death sentence had been made known. Those creatures, in the direct presence of god for untold eons, preferred death to staying with him. Did he also fail to impart knowledge to them? Or is god such a major weenie that only the threat of death keeps even a fraction of his followers from jumping ship?