# Why Evolution Is Religiously Irrelevant Garden of Eden exists before matter. It is a purely mathematical world. Pleroma in Gnosticism. The world of forms in Platonism. Nous. The fall of man is not Christianity exclusive. I think it is a way more serious problem in Gnosticism. Returning to Pleroma with Gnosis is literally what defines Gnosticism. In Hermeticism, man fell love with nature. And was trapped by her. Men have become dominated by fate since then. The fall of man means the beginning of Becoming. Adam and Eve mean the Platonic forms of male and female. Or maybe even on a lower level. Like sun and moon. Or even sulphur and mercury. But let's talk about them as sun and moon here. A serpent convinces Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. And she gives it to Adam. Then god expels them. So that they can't achieve immortality. Why a serpent? Why Eve first? Why fruit? A serpent symbolises Becoming. Chaos. Apeiron. And it is a symbol appearing in various religions. For example, there is Ouroboros in Hermeticism. Ouroboros is the snake eating its own tail. An orbit. That means eternity in Becoming. Mathematically, it means invariant. Think of symmetry and conservation. So without the cycle, a normal snake just means transformations. Sometimes a dragon appears instead of a snake. Moon symbolises female. The most direct relation is that (Menstrual cycle) ~ (28.5 days) ~ (1 lunar cycle). Moon has a cycle. Sun is always full sun. But the size of moon changes. So moon also symbolises Becoming. In contrast, sun symbolises Being. Logos. Order. And of course male. For example, Apollo is the god of Logos in Greek mythology. Pythagoras was called a son of Apollo because of that. In late times, he starts to symbolise sun too. So Adam eating the forbidden fruit symbolises that men are totally captured by Becoming. A fruit is where seeds exist. It symbolises a life cycle. That also symbolises Becoming. It also symbolises agriculture too. After god expels Adam and Eve, they can't reach the tree of life. It is a kind of "the world tree" in various religions. The world tree connects all the underground, earth, heaven. The roots exist in the underground. The leaves exist in heaven. So that means eternity going through all spacetime. There is often a dragon defending eternity. As I wrote, a dragon has the same meaning with a snake. In that regard, the snake defended the tree of life from Adam and Eve. So the fall of man means the start of changing. Changes mean A becoming not-A. By that, A dies. It is no more A=A. So it is the start of death. God expelled humans from the purely mathematical Garden of Eden to the material world. From eternity to the world full of changes. Evolution deals with just how bodies of men have formed. It assumes Becoming. Garden of Eden exists before Becoming and matter. Materialistically interpreting this just shows how secular and materialistic they are.