Quote Originally Posted by Carl Sagan
“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
The story of Adam and Eve relates to this in that it is primarily a morality tale about easily gained knowledge sans effort.

The story also relates to Summerian tales as well.

As for the Big Bang... the matter did not exist before it. Neither the matter, energy, space or time existed. In all likely hood the Big Bang also defined in its start what the laws of physics would be for this universe. So even the laws of physics are not considered to have existed in their current set prior to the Big Bang.