knowledge, but "knowledge of good and evil"... I refer to my earlier question here:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuPvwX34U88MhXRoJZbDOZTd7BR.?qid=200707 06072223AAgYWM5

Then does this mean that in being naked, the state of which they were first ashamed when they ate the fruit, was the first act of evil?

And does this mean that God created them to do something evil even though they could not know about it? Had they never eaten, would they have continued naked forever, doing something shameful without a concept of shame?
Why couldn't they be ashamed of being disobedient and stay naked? They might as well have been ashamed at their disobedience and so put on just a pair of gloves. There was a specific evil brought to their attention upon eating the fruit. That evil was not disobedience. It was nakedness. They sought to cover their nakedness, not the fact that they had been disobedient.
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the tree of knowledge between good and evil is satan the tree of life is Christ. notice both were in the garden...... dis-obeying God was the sin ........

It means they were being evil without knowing about it; which apparently is perfectly OK with God (or since you're using polytheistic Genesis, gods).

God gave them a choice (free will) when He told them not to eat of the fruit of that one tree. (ALL the other trees were fair game.)

Nakedness was not the issue. Disobedience was (and still is).

They ate of the tree and were aware that they had disobeyed God. Once that awareness sinks in, man become self-aware and self-conscious, if you will.

Once sin entered the world, Adam & Eve's focus was no longer on God, and each other, but on "self." Shame is the natural result.

Sin brings us from being other-oriented, to self-oriented.

I wonder why the body is evil?

Or, if they had no knowledge of good and evil, how could they know that it was wrong to eat of a forbidden tree?

And why is it that so few Christians know why Adam and Eve were ejected from the garden in the story? They were cast out of the garden by the gods before they could eat of the tree of life. Since they already had knowledge of good and evil, once they gained immortality, they would have become gods themselves. I guess the club is a pretty exclusive one.

Does it not frustrate the crap out of you that you formed an intelligent, well worded question, yet the most any Christian responder can muster is to REPEAT what youve said, then ignore the underlying question (nice job, sparki777)?

How does shame from disobediance turn into shame of your naked body? RIDICULOUS!

The fact that they realized that they were naked, is that they knew they had done something wrong, so they were ashamed of themselves.