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Point to any verse showing Cain died. There simply is no record of his death as there was of major characters mentioned.

EXCELLENT POINT! THANK YOU! Cain must surely still be living, since it's not written about. I mean, if the Biblical record of Creation - exactly how it happened - is inerrant, then Cain must still be alive. Unless you choose to believe some parts of the Bible more than you believe others?

The Genesis account was treated by Christ, Peter, and Paul as historical events not philosophical fables.

Really? Christ, Peter, and Paul said "God created the World and this is EXACTLY HOW HE DID IT?" Or did they say "God created the World" because it was the theological truth? Jewish tradition uses a lot of simile and metaphor, where the exact, literal meanings of the words aren't as important as the point you're trying to convey...

Myself, I take evolution as a metaphorical fable designed to denigrate the Genesis account.

Fair enough. Myself, I take evolution as a very good theory that describes how life changes over time, and is completely congruent with the fundamental Biblical truth that God created all.

Apparently my belief threatens yours?

According to John 3:16 it was the giving of His son that evidenced God's love for mankind. Not fables, myths, etc.

Yes, and that has what to do with the Creation story?

Afterall Genesis starts out “in the beginning” not “once upon a time”.

You left out "Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away"...

Luke traced Jesus’ genealogy back to Adam so it follows that he took the Genesis account as a historical document. If not then when did the actual become the simile and metaphor?

Jesus referred to the Genesis account of Adam and Eve's creation as male and female saying “did you not read” at Genesis 2:24. This was a statement that a past event explained God's standard of marriage.

Jesus said God created humans as male and female hence it wasn't by evolving over long periods of time and little steps as Darwinism proposes that they came to be.

Paul said at Romans 5:14 death ruled from Adam to Moses so which one if either person is part of traditional Jewish simile and metaphor?

Peter, in his second letter, 3:5 refers to the creation account as a warning example.

Darwinism has no room for a Creator unless it's one they fashion and is as Carl Sagan put it, “benign and indifferent”.

No, your beliefs don't threaten me or what I believe at all. You may wave a copy of “Origin...” but that's not quite tar and feathers or a pitchfork.