Defender's Guide to Science and Creationism

Assertion: Evolution entails that there was no Fall, and thus no need for Christ.

Mark I. Vuletic

Last updated 21 March 2008

Analysis

Assuming the doctrines of sin and redemption are coherent to begin with, anyone who sins has a need for redemption, whether a distant ancestor of theirs has sinned or not. Take the Fall of Adam and Eve not as a historical event, but as an allegory for the tendency (as strong as you want to make it) to fall into sin, and you can retain the need for a savior even while accepting that there was no historical Fall as described in the ancient Hebrew creation myths.

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