How could anyone actually believe the Adam and eve story?

It is just a story. The meaning is that at some point, human behavior angered God, and we are dealing with the consequences of it. Remember, that the story is written from the perspective of the Old Testament, which focuses on God as being angry. The New Testament is very different.

All you have to learn from the story of Adam and Eve:
1) there is good and evil all around us
2) we can choose to do what ever we want
3) if we make bad choices we have to live with the consequences
4) it is good to have a mate

As it was an allegory meaning to convey man's separation from God,and not how the cosmos came into being it does its intended purpose well

I am an atheist, so do not believe any of it.

But the prohibition was not the apple. It was that the apple came from a sacred special tree whose fruit God did not want them to eat. I cannot recall which. One was the Tree of Life, or something, that gave eternal life, I think. The other was the Tree of Knowledge (of good and evil?), if I recall. I think the apple came from the latter.

Odd that God would not want humans to know stuff. Keep us all ignorant, and hence we are easier to control, right?

I am glad it is all a fairy tale.

I don't believe anything in the book of genesis really. I feel like the whole bible is tainted by human hands who lack understanding.

Always healthy to ponder this stuff

Inbreeding. I would think the whole thing would dead-end at the inbreeding problem if people actually tried to inject logic into it. You'd end up with sterile offspring after only a few generations.

Oh ye of little faith

Because this is not the real story, it wasn't about Apple

It's just mythology. People can think of anything.

A delusion