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Eve tempting Adam

Adam and Eve were the first man and woman created by God, according to the Bible and the Qur'an. The story of Adam and Eve is central to the widely held belief that God created human beings to live in a Paradise on earth, although they fell away from that state and formed the present world full of suffering and injustice. It provides the basis for the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors. It also provides much of the scriptural basis for the doctrine of Original Sin, an important belief in Christianity, although not shared by Judaism or Islam. The story of Adam and Eve is the source of many of the most important symbols in Western culture, including the Garden of Eden, the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the forbidden fruit, and the serpent as Satan.

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-text='''[[Intelligent design]]''' (ID) is the view that it is possible to infer from empirical evidence that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as [[natural selection]]". Intelligent design cannot be inferred from complexity alone, since complex patterns often happen by chance. ID focuses on just those sorts of complex patterns that in human experience are produced by a mind that conceives and executes a plan. According to adherents, intelligent design can be detected in the natural laws and structure of the cosmos; it also can be detected in at least some features of [[life|living things]].
+text='''Adam''' and '''Eve''' were the first man and woman created by [[God]], according to the [[Bible]] and the [[Qur'an]]. The story of Adam and Eve is central to the widely held belief that God created human beings to live in a [[Paradise]] on earth, although they fell away from that state and formed the present world full of suffering and injustice. It provides the basis for the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors. It also provides much of the scriptural basis for the doctrine of [[Original Sin]], an important belief in [[Christianity]], although not shared by [[Judaism]] or [[Islam]].
-Greater clarity on the topic may be gained from a discussion of what ID is not considered to be by its leading theorists. Intelligent design generally is not defined the same as [[creationism]], with proponents maintaining that ID relies on scientific evidence rather than on Scripture or [[religion|religious]] doctrines. ID makes no claims about [[Bible|biblical]] chronology, and technically a person does not have to believe in [[God]] to infer intelligent design in nature. As a theory, ID also does not specify the identity or nature of the designer, so it is not the same as [[natural theology]], which reasons from [[nature]] to the existence and attributes of God. ID does not claim that all [[species]] of living things were created in their present forms, and it does not claim to provide a complete account of the history of the universe or of living things.}}
+The story of Adam and Eve is the source of many of the most important symbols in Western culture, including the Garden of Eden, the [[Tree of Life]] and the [[Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil]], the [[forbidden fruit]], and the [[serpent (symbolism)|serpent]] as [[Satan]].
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