I agree Tatsy. I too wonder if they would have made it different if they understood about the base brains drive to seek out pleasure and avoid pain. Any painful experiences, even just being hungry and the base brain says, I know what would make you feel better! Have a drink! If you are feeling great the base brain says, I know what would heighten this experience! Have a drink! Heck why stop there? Have another and another and another........
I've never been a religious person but from the bits of the bible I've read and my limited exposure to church my perception has also been that God created us in such as way that He wants us to choose between right and wrong. That's what I thought the whole point of the morals in the bible were. Not that God would do it for us but that we would be tested through our power of choice as to whether we would choose sin or redemption.