There are many ways to interpret a story.
For example, why would Adam's god want a humanity that was blind to good and evil? Why would said god place people in the garden and then get outplayed by a serpent?
Who was god talking to when be proclaimed man had become "like us" and justified banishing him from the garden?
If one believes that the god of the story of adam and eve is the creator of all things (more of a divine concept), then one has to do some creative thinking to explain the events of Eden.
However, if one concludes that the god of adam/eden was different from the grand creator and possibly even the god of moses … then we have many ways to interpret the story.
To be as clever as serpents.
The question is why one would choose to hold as an icon the image of god or the image of the serpent. Many, in my experience, appeal to god in the same way they appeal to tyranny - that god is a grand cosmic arbiter whose word is not just law, but reality itself.
As such, the icon of the serpent could easily be that of Loki or Prometheus - a trickster who often confounds humans and gods alike in schemes to expose their faults.
In this regard, one could see the serpent granting humanity a potential that was as much a punishment as a gift. With knowledge of good and evil comes responsibility.
Of course, to hold up deviousness for its own sake or in the eroneous belief that it is a form of teaching is wrong. Stupid should hurt, but claiming that you're teaching a child to fend for himself while playing soccer with his unconscious body is the kind of stupid that inspires murder.
Both the concept of god and the serpent can be held up as icons of something more profound, and the reasons for doing so can be legitimate or twisted. A tyrant will justify his reign as being that of god's while a pervert will try to proclaim his degeneracy is some deep lesson on enlightenment.
The real clutch from the eden story is that we are the equal to the god of our progenitor and have a responsibility to grasp right and wrong so as to judge appropriately. And they shall be judged by their fruits.
It is interesting that Jesus uses this way of reference as the story of eden has Cain as the farmer and Abel as the shepherd. Supposedly, Adam's god favored the sacrifice of abel's flock over cain's offering of crops. The theological lesson often applied is that works do not afford favor.
Yet, as according to Jesus - it is by our fruits we will be judged.
Rather than relying upon one's choice of flag, it is better to consider their character. IE - clean the inside of the cup and the outside will also be clean. It matters more why people are aligning with a symbol than the symbol, itself. Choosing to ignore our own reasoning to blindly crusade is the kind of stuff that leads to the general retrograde nature of islam.