[IpaqMan]

I was an atheist in my youth and later gravitated to the God started it and billions of years later, voila.

However, as a born-again Christian, I began to realize that the foundations of most Christian doctrines (sin, death, disease, sacrifice, and so on) are based upon the first eleven chapters of Genesis.

For Christians who believe that Adam sinned and brought sin and corruption into the world, the time before Adam could not have been filled with death, destruction, disease, and violence. If Adam was the result of millions of years of death, disease, and evolution, the whole concept of the FALL makes no sense at all. Our faith would be based upon an illogical, nonsensical framework. Whence cometh sin?

Just something for Christians to consider.

[balrog666]

For Christians who believe that Adam sinned and brought sin and corruption into the world, the time before Adam could not have been filled with death, destruction, disease, and violence. If Adam was the result of millions of years of death, disease, and evolution, the whole concept of the FALL makes no sense at all. Our faith would be based upon an illogical, nonsensical framework. Whence cometh sin? Just something for Christians to consider.

And that's a problem for whom?

[Quark2005]

If Adam was the result of millions of years of death, disease, and evolution, the whole concept of the FALL makes no sense at all.

My interpretation of the fall of Adam is that it is representative of the human decision to rebel against God, from whenceforth people became conscious of the human condition. (Animals are not conscious of the condition of their mortality.) The message is what is important here.
This may not satisfy you, but the truth is, like it or not, a word for word literal interpretation of Gen. 1-2 simply does not mesh with observational fact (despite the claims of many dishonest books & websites). The Law may be meant literally, but many biblical expressions are certainly allegorical. (Do you really believe the citizens of Israel in David's time were literally more numerous than the sands of the seashore?)