[agrace]

They most certainly are contradictory. One can't believe in the Bible, namely the gospel, and believe in evolution.

The gospel states that sin and death first entered the world by one man, the first Adam, and can only be removed by another, the last Adam, Jesus Christ. Yet evolution teaches that much death, decay and destruction occurred for millennia before man appeared on the scene.

How are Christians able to reconcile the two ideas?

[ZULU]

"They most certainly are contradictory. One can't believe in the Bible, namely the gospel, and believe in evolution"

You can and I do, and if you can't the Bible is in trouble.

"The gospel states that sin and death first entered the world by one man, the first Adam, and can only be removed by another, the last Adam, Jesus Christ."

It refers to spiritual death, not physical death.

"Yet evolution teaches that much death, decay and destruction occurred for millennia before man appeared on the scene."

Facts indicate corporeal death, decay and destruction existed before man. Pick up a basic text on geology, anthropolgy, biology, paleontology, etc, and read about gepgraphic strata, fossils, and dating methodology.

[Tribune7]

How are Christians able to reconcile the two ideas?

My view is that a Christian is someone who believes that Jesus Christ is God incarnate; that He walked the earth, suffered for our sins, and rose in body after His crucifixion; and who follows His teachings.

One's view that we have a common ancestor with butterflies is not relevant to this.