Are weeds punishment or curse from God?

IOW the world stinks. We do not need the bible to tell us that.

The problem (as I see it) is that the Garden story is a theological justification for it, and it just does not compute with a caring (and competent) god. There is so much misconception and poor science in it that it makes Genesis 1 look positively scientific. Yet people here are quite happy to take it as literal having completely dismissed the (first) Creation narrative.

Richard