Always an interesting debate. Let me state my standing before I go on.

I believe in Jesus, Mohammed, Buddah and every other enlightened person who has graced the history of humankind with some knowledge for a selfdestrutive race.

I had a friend who was an ancient hebrew professor who studied the bible. I mean the real bible. Not the thing you find on your shelf, in a drawer at a hotel, or the thing the guy is waving in church on a Sunday morning. Anyone ever had their hands on one of the old translations of the bible?

Man's influence on words is a funny thing.

Older hebrew versions of the bible have no mention of Eve. Nor the snake.

Eve was originally referred to as "issa". Translated into english: "woman". Editors of the english bible needed to name her, so they did.

The snake? Actually in the older bible the hebrew word for stick is used.

What did the bible originally say? Sadly man has probably lost it, destroyed it, or twisted its word out of anything close to the words they once were.