Nowadays, a more secular analyst might diagnose an “error” in some human endeavor, and seek to bring it to light.

Interestingly enough, the event that Augustine labels “Original Sin” can also be analyzed as an error in mathematical reasoning or logic (were people of that era sufficiently schooled in mathematical analysis to render such an observation).

So instead of adopting the theological label, “Original Sin,” I prefer to speak of “Hammurabi’s Original Logic Error” (or “Humankind’s Original Logic Error”).

When examined from that point of view, one arrives at an essay such as this one…

Disjunction Dysfunction and the Error Function

http://underground.musenet.org:8080/utnebury/error.html

He quotes St. Augustine:

“In the Gospel we do not read that the Lord said, ‘I send you the Holy Spirit so that he might teach you all about the course of the sun and the moon.’ The Lord wanted to make Christians, not astronomers. You learn at school all the useful things you need to know about nature.”
–Contra Faustum manichaeum

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he hold to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although _they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion.

— Augustine, De Genesi ad litteram: 1.19.39 translated by J.H. Taylor, Ancient Christian Writers, Newman Press, 1982, volume 41

I can’t vouch for this quotation’s truth or accuracy, since I got it off the Internet some years ago, but at least there’s enough of a reference that you can look it up.