Eve and the snake are the heros in the garden of Eden

But we are born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties, whatever they may be worth; our symphonies, however seldom they are played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams, however rarely they may be accomplished.

The miracle of man is not how far we have sunk, but how magnificently we have risen.

-Robert Ardrey