# Hijack of Tree of Knowledge thread

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**Created:** [February 27, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-of-tree-of-knowledge-thread/980497 "2023-02-27T18:41:36Z")\
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> [@What was the purpose of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-purpose-of-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil/980405/66):
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> The timeline _is_ confusing. In Genesis 1:27, it says, “So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” But then the scripture says in 2:18, “Then the LORD God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.’” And He creates Eve in 2:22. So I don’t know if Chapter 1 is foreshadowing what is going to come later, or there was a retcon, or maybe there were other men and women aside from Adam and Eve outside of the Garden of Eden…?

I’ve heard a white-supremacist interpretation of that — which wouldn’t seem to merit further elaboration, but which also seems like it’d become irrelevant once things winnowed down to Noah and crew.

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