I'm with you. But... I do think that in some way the *act* of eating the fruit caused something to occur making procreation possible. Prior to that it was not. Adding upon the analogies previously offered, I would say they received the “keys to the car.” Because if the car = the tools needed to procreate, they had them, if the knowledge to “drive” = knowing how to procreate, they probably had some idea of that too, BUT they still needed the keys or *something* to put the whole thing into motion. Eating the fruit, and entering a fallen state was this catalyst.
