Why did Adam attempt to defend himself, by blaming Eve?
A complete "clueless", as you described him, would have indeed been confused as to why God was asking him to explain himself.
Who remembers the story of the Blue Lagoon? It’s two young children surviving a ship wreck on a desert paradise island.
shipwrecked on an uninhabited tropical island, who eventually fall in love when they become teenagers (a tale not far removed from Adam and Eve in paradise
everyone agrees they are a bit like Adam and Eve just have to figure things out for themselves
a bit like the rest of humanity in that we only understand a fraction of the Bible and if there is a God then what was his purpose. Whoever wrote Genesis what did they want the readers to think?