Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden is a mythical place described in the Bible as the place God created for the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, to live. All the animals supposedly lived together in peace in the Garden of Eden, and Adam and Eve walked around totally naked. The story goes that Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden when they broke God's prohibition against eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Conservatives actually believe all these events really happened (the death penalty reduces violent crime). As Adam and Eve were naked, and knew nothing of good and evil, the story is obviously an allegory for the evolution of humans from being animals to becoming self aware homo sapiens.