They’re singled out because the Genesis narrative is, in the eyes of fundies, absolutely required for their religion to be necessary. If it isn’t true, then there was no Garden of Eden and therefore no Original Sin. If there is no Original Sin, then humans are not doomed to be tortured forever by God by default and do not need God to sacrifice himself to himself to convince himself to not torture us forever because of our forefathers’ mistake.
They’re singled out because the Genesis narrative is, in the eyes of fundies, absolutely required for their religion to be necessary. If it isn’t true, then there was no Garden of Eden and therefore no Original Sin. If there is no Original Sin, then humans are not doomed to be tortured forever by God by default and do not need God to sacrifice himself to himself to convince himself to not torture us forever because of our forefathers’ mistake.