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Parable:
"Playboy: ‘But since you mentioned Adam and Eve a moment ago, let’s take the Garden of Eden as a parable and ask if the element of man’s will mightn’t make him a stranger to this universal perfection. Couldn’t the Scenario Universe be a tragedy as far as human affairs are concerned?’
“Fuller: ‘In the first place I don’t take anything as a parable. I’m interested in stories if I can understand them, but I don’t use fiction as the basis of doing any strong thinking, especially when it comes to such matters as ‘man’s will.’ I think we’d better not assume that what we’ve been told about the Garden of Eden has any validity whatsoever. I don’t think there was a Garden of Eden, and I don’t think there was an Adam and Eve, and I don’t think Eve was born out of Adam’s rib. So I can’t accept the parable.’”
