The doctrine of Original Sin and evolution are by far most likely the hardest ideas to reconcile in Christian theology. Evolutionary theory refutes the notion that Original Sin brought discord, death and chaos into an initially perfect creation of harmony and equilibrium.
French philosopher and priest Piere Teilhard di Chardin attempted to accommodate the two in the formulation of his theology and called the evil the "unavoidable by-product of a universe in course of unification in God."
How do we reconcile evolution and Original Sin? Or perhaps, if one accepts evolution as the underlying creative and formative process, how do we explain sin?
How does evolutionary theory refute this? I don't think it has anything to do with it.
Well, evolutionary theory portrays Original Sin as non-existent as it contends that discord, chaos and evil pre-date the existence of man AND is also necessary for progress. On the other hand, the notion of Original Sin holds that it was the first sin that brought discord, chaos and evil into the world. The two ideas oppose each other.
Well, it is true that discord, chaos and evil pre-date the existence of man, since Lucifer rebelled and all creatures on earth during the preAdamic age. This is why God judged the earth (void - Gen 1:2).
But sin came into MAN during the fall in Gen 3. In the garden God was everything to man - his protection, maintenance, supply and amusement. When man lost God, he lost everything.
Man's loss of God forced man to invent human culture, the main elements of which were cities for existence, cattle-raising for making a living, music for amusements, and weapons for defense (Gen 4:20-22 Cain's descendants).
So, so called human progress did came in ... but a invented godless human culture...
I reject the notions of both evolution and original sin.
__________________ "For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them."
Ecclesiastes 9:12 (ESV)
The doctrine of Original Sin and evolution are by far most likely the hardest ideas to reconcile in Christian theology. Evolutionary theory refutes the notion that Original Sin brought discord, death and chaos into an initially perfect creation of harmony and equilibrium.
French philosopher and priest Piere Teilhard di Chardin attempted to accommodate the two in the formulation of his theology and called the evil the "unavoidable by-product of a universe in course of unification in God."
How do we reconcile evolution and Original Sin? Or perhaps, if one accepts evolution as the underlying creative and formative process, how do we explain sin?
Evolution, original sin... what was in the beginning? the chicken or the egg?
Scientists who understand the laws of thermodynamics should have an understanding that some things have no beginning. The laws of conservation of mass, the conservation of energy. Some things have no beginning - they change from one form to another, but there was never a time of nothingness - for something does not come from nothing.
To the evolutionists - mass has no beginning, energy has no beginning - why does life have to have a beginning? I propose that life has always existed, just as energy and mass have always been around.
As for the origin of evil - it does not exist - evil has no origin - no begining.
John1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. If it was “made” it was made by Him, however, some things are not made – some things exist without a beginning, they are self-existent.
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. - Jeremiah1:5
Our birth was not our beginning… Part of us had no beginning.
8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. - Isaiah64:8
The potter did not make the clay… but we can become His creation.
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Evolution is a "theory" which has very much fallen out of favor in academic circles. The problem is that because it gained such wide acceptance for a long period, it has become somewhat entrenched. ie. the system of naming species/families/genus was developed with the understanding of evolution being "fact" and not just a "theory".
Many scientists now reject the theory outright as more and more evidence (or lack thereof) comes to light disproving it. Those who still believe it do so more out of a misplaced faith than because of the evidence. It has achieved a religious status of sorts.
Anyway, there is no need to reconcile Christianity with evolution because evolution is a crock
I reject the notions of both evolution and original sin.
On what grounds?
Based on the fact that I haven't seen sufficient evidence for either theory to convince me that they could be true.
__________________ "For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them."
Ecclesiastes 9:12 (ESV)
The doctrine of Original Sin and evolution are by far most likely the hardest ideas to reconcile in Christian theology. Evolutionary theory refutes the notion that Original Sin brought discord, death and chaos into an initially perfect creation of harmony and equilibrium.
French philosopher and priest Piere Teilhard di Chardin attempted to accommodate the two in the formulation of his theology and called the evil the "unavoidable by-product of a universe in course of unification in God."
How do we reconcile evolution and Original Sin? Or perhaps, if one accepts evolution as the underlying creative and formative process, how do we explain sin?
... but a invented godless human culture... 
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