So if you agree that creation can be reduced to coding and if the code is shown to be self modifying through mutations and natural selection there is no need for a supernatural coder.
I can understand God punishing Man with death for “sinning” by why bacteria or plants or animals. Are they sinners to? Universal death of all living things is only necessary for natural selection to achieve greater complexity but is unnecessary to divine creation where it is explained as punishment for the “sin” of self awareness.
I don't agree with that …
if the code is shown to be self modifying through mutations and natural selection there is no need for a supernatural coder.
1) That's a big "if", which assumes facts not in evidence.
2) It's still a non-sequitur. The original code required a designer.
I can understand God punishing Man with death for “sinning” by why bacteria or plants or animals. Are they sinners to?
It is apparent to me, in my own personal interpretation of Scripture (Genesis in particular), that God created everything else for the benefit of Man, who was to have dominion over it. When Man sinned, not only did he damage his own nature, he damaged everything else as will.