Surely, God did not create a magical fruit that when consumed increased knowledge.  Would that make sense? So is the Knowledge of Good and Evil symbolic?  A euphemism for something else?  Would it also be that way for the Tree of Life? And if God did not want Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Life, wouldn't he have mentioned it?  Or is God a forgetful God? Unless... God didn't expect the Tree of Life of offer up its fruit to God's newest creation? Indeed, is it not true that throughout the Bible, trees are peoples?  Fruit is therefore offspring, and seed is seed.