[VRWC_minion]

According to the scripture there was a 1st man and he was Adam and he chose to disobey God. All other things about the creation story can be reconciled to a degree with an evolution theology (i.e. evolution controlled by God) except for the 1st man who was called Adam. Without Adam, Christ and the concept of redemption cannot apply.

An interesting note on this is that the literal translation of the verses that talk about God clothing them is that he put them in skin. A pure literal reading could be that prior to being put out of the garden they were spirit and the clothing that God dressed them in was a body. That is the closest I can get to reconciling the theology of sin and redemption with evolution.

[ZULU]

"According to the scripture there was a 1st man and he was Adam and he chose to disobey God."

I agree with this. Somewhere along the series of manlike creatures which preceded modern man, arose the "first" modern man, who was, indeed, Adam.

"Without Adam, Christ and the concept of redemption cannot apply."

No argument there.