What were the gods thinking?

Well, it just makes my head hurt.

I see, but as through a glass darkly.

And, Sam, all that profundity. There's more than one way not to understand. There's the inability, then there's the unwillingness.

Now, just to put a little spin on Adam and Eve, Eve may have been the first to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, but it didn't take long for Adam to catch up -- and catch on.

Guess I'm just being catty.

Did you ever wonder how things would have been if Adam had been more obedient? Would they have been any different? Would we all be any different today?

There. Now maybe your own head will hurt.

It does seem like trying to understand so much evil in the world and confront it leads in so many different directions it becomes quite confusing at times.