It is the Catholic Church's own Biblical Scholars who tell us what should be obvious : when you read about talking snakes and magic trees of live and of knowledge, and have a god who walks with his creations in a magic garden – we are reading mythology, not history.

That's what the Holy Spirit inspired - that the creation stories of Genesis be written in a myth literary form.

Now we have to learn to deal with that fact, and discover how in affects our understanding and interpretation of human origins and 'original sin' and everything else that derives from this developed understanding of Scripture.