Is the knowledge of good and evil, good or evil? I believe the bible is irrelevant. However...for the sake of boredom, yeah, I would argue that sky daddy punished them for simply disobeying his commandment. I assume it wouldn't have mattered what the commandment was, it would have been the same outcome, since god knew they would disobey and that he would punish them that way. The bigger question here is: Why did god create them, or anyone for that matter, if he already knew the outcome?