Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.

— Johnny Rich

Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to last much longer. There are a plenty of signs. He is getting belittled to a germ—a little bit of a speck that you can't see without a microscope powerful enough to raise a gnat to the size of a church.('The Refuge of the Derelicts' collected in Mark Twain and John Sutton Turkey, The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings (1980), 340-41. - 1980)

— Mark Twain

Because God took one look at Adam and said, 'Wow. This guy's going to need all the help he can get.' And here we are.

— Nancy Mehl

Before eating from the tree of knowledge, Adam and Eve had no notion of Good and evil. They were kicked out of paradise, because the supposed Creator was unable to reason that giving someone free will to choose between two things while having no notion of either, would be the Himalaya of nonsense.

— Haroutioun Bochnakian

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

— Peter Kreeft

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laugh gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.

— Clarence Darrow

Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts.

— Nan Robertson

For in that perfect garden when one day entered sin, An animal was murdered for garments made of skin. When figs of human effort produced religious strife, The Father tailored clothing for Adam and his wife.

— Joyce Rachelle

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly

— Paul Valéry

God did create a world without sin. We just screwed it up.

— Wesley Miller