I already said, the Adam and Eve story makes no real sense. It doesn't have to. Its not about how people populated the planet. Its a parable about temptation and the pitfalls of giving into it. It isn't like Noah managed to get two of every kind of the billions of land animals on our planet on his boat either. His Ark would be crawling in bugs, yuck. That's a story about evil people drowning and that you should try to behave yourself. Its all common sense stuff. But no, you want to dwell on the animals and the problems of breeding brothers with brothers.
For the record, I am a Deist. So the above is not my preferred flavour of religion, but I respect it all the same. I respect all religions ... it is only atheism that I can't get on board with. Atheism is the only belief system that doesn't offer people anything. It is wholly destructive.
If you have a dying child, every religion teaches of an afterlife and that child will see mummy in heaven. What does an atheist tell the kid? Sorry sweetie, you are going to be worm food?
If you have someone starving in a poor country, they can hope ... and therefore pray for rain for their crops or international aid, or some divine intervention. An atheist just gets depressed.
If you have 2 young siblings and no one is there to stop them screwing each other, and no omnipotent deity is watching and judging, who puts the fear of God onto them?
If you have done something you are utterly ashamed of and the guilt is eating you from the inside out, you can ask for forgiveness and make your peace with God. Atheists just go on self-hating.
If you want to raise money to help people in your community "Hi, I'm collecting for St Mary's parish fundraiser". Sure, sound like decent god-fearing folk, have a dollar. "Hi, I'm collecting for atheism" ... I'm calling the police.
If you want to give up drinking or drugs the first thing you are advised to do is the self-catharsis of submitting to a "higher power". Atheists just keep on drinking.
Atheism answers nothing, offers nothing and takes everything from you. The comfort from a dying child, the hope of the poor, the self-respect of the wretched, the courage and strength of the ill, and the culture of your community ... no one knows if God exists or not, but
choosing to believe there is no God is just plain stupid. You get nothing in return for that.
You live in a first world country. You have no troubles. You aren't likely to get ill and die young, you aren't likely to starve to death, you won't face wars or abject poverty ... sure, you don't
need God. But the thing I hate most about atheists ... they never shut the Thork up about it. And they belittle those who do need God ... the weak. They are the first to say creationists are idiots, that religion is for imbeciles, that God is a fantasy and that science proves it and only the stupid would pray to a God. They want to take the things people rely on from religions because they don't have or need them. Atheists are vindictive, self-loathing and selfish and it is because they have no spirituality. How can you love someone bereft of spirituality? How can you respect them? How can you admire them? Who the hell would want to be that guy?
Pick any religion you like, but if you choose atheism, you're the dummy. You are denying that you are a human, some infallible robot that is not spiritual and has no human spirit. All humans, from every corner of the earth for all time have been spiritual, it is hardwired into the human brain to help intelligent beings deal with complex society, mortality and natural fears. And you just classed yourself as sub-human. Dogs don't need God. Lizards aren't spiritual. Insects don't take 5 minutes to give thanks and appreciate their life. Imagine telling people you have no soul. I pity the atheists ... choosers of the stupidest belief system on earth (and I'm a member of the flat earth society).