Eden, Techne, Experimentalism

The first knowledge of good and evil that Adam and Eve acquire is what happens if one disobeys one's deity.  But that curiosity precedes the eating of that fruit.  So, if such Knowledge is Techne, then the serpent in Eden is Experimental Reason, the fundamental principle of which is the interrogative What If?  Nor does the eventual attainment of Know-how eliminate that uncertainty--even experts are constantly learning something new, thereby revising their Techne.  So, as the long history of the Theological reaction to the events of Genesis 3 indicates, the fundamental opponent of Experimentalism is Dogmatism.