Ginny wrote:

>And even if cooking started early on, could it not have been our "original
>sin"? Nothing says we waited until agriculture to start making mistakes.

Actually, many biblical commentators say that the Cain and Abel
story was an allegory about the tension between the earlier
hunter-gatherers (represented by Abel, who tended the flock), and
the agriculturalists who came and "slew" them (represented by
Cain, who tilled the soil).

So maybe not *original* sin, but one of the first few.

.:. Craig