I'm a Baptist, and I have taken that position in the past. and as a matter of discussion with others, I have no real problem with assuming evolution to be true.
HOWEVER. Against this is 1 Corinthians 15 where it says 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive There are a number of other verses mentioning Adam by name in the NT
And, as the verse explains, what is the need of a Savior if man did not inherit a sin nature?
Nevertheless, I believe the bible is God's inerrant Word, and I also believe that Science seeks the truth, and the truth cannot contradict the truth. How to reconcile these positions is above my own abilities, and I am content to await God's personal explanation of the matter to me.
i take the attitude that the Bible was written for the audience of its time.
“God created Adam” was more easily understood than “God created a small creature too small to see and over the course of 2 billion years that creature and its progeny changed every generation until eventually human beings came into existence. Adam was the very first human being”.
to me it doesn’t matter which is true. they are both valid explanations to their audiences and both require faith.
atheists and secular humanists are really pushing scientism, which is the belief that science can explain everything. but this belief will eventually fail because some questions are beyond the scope of what science can test. i can put the raw materials for life in a petry dish and set it outside in a thunderstorm every day for a billion years, but there is no guarantee that life will eventually spring forth from it. that question (how did life begin?) is beyond the scope of what scientism can answer. there are other such questions (does the universe have a beginning? if so, who/what created the universe? etc.). smart people accept this essential truth.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” - Hamlet