erstwhile parents when it jettisoned the fall. Even prior to Darwin and the more recent scientific challenges, people were already asking questions about Genesis 3. How could Adam and Eve, created holy, ever choose to sin? How was sin even possible in the blissful presence of God? And how did one peccadillo trigger such devastating consequences? Skeptics who asked such questions had lost faith in the received tradition. Similar burdens bedevil the doctrine of original sin. In Roman Catholic tradition,