Ghetto indeed. What a mess that forum is. I for one would appreciate a thread discussing the whole evolution issue with your input, JR, especially with your scientific education. It's such a huge issue these days as the TE movement is working so hard to infiltrate the church. I'd suggest starting a thread in the Fundie forum, but there are so very few actual fundies that frequent it anymore (and several, well, um, interesting charact... oh, never mind). I suspect such a thread would have much better, more biblically grounded discussion in Semper.
Ya, I tried to start a thread on Theistic Evolution being heretical. Didn't get too far. There were Roman Catholics and other denominations stating that Christ only died for our spirits. Or that death didn't ultimately enter the world through Adam's sin. There were variations of whether death entered humankind at that point but had always existed within animals. Simple errors where the Scripture would correct them; but since none had a good foundation in the Scriptures, I decided to just move on. lol. Unless they have a solid base in the Scriptures, it's difficult to reason with them. They have a completely different epistemology than that of reformed folks.
My basic argument was this (and I still hold to it):
1) If Theistic Evolution is true, then death existed before Adam sinned.
2) If death existed before Adam sinned, then death is not the consequence of sin, but is merely a natural occurrence. (which already contradicts the Scripture in that the wages of sin is death)
3) If death is not the consequence of sin, then Jesus' death did not pay the consequence of sin.
Therefore, 4) If theistic evolution is true, then Jesus' death did not pay the consequences for our sin.
This compromises the Gospel, though, which depends upon a substitutionary atonement. That Christ had to die in order to pay for our sin. If the wages of sin isn't death, then how could our substitute pay for our sins with his death?
I find it also contradicts the resurrection, because if death is not the wages of sin, then Christ didn't need to die for our sins. If he didn't need to die for our sins, then he didn't need to be resurrected either. In fact, the resurrection depends on the necessity of Christ's death first, since according to Paul (1 Cor 15:14-17), if Christ wasn't raised, then our faith is in vain and we are still in our sins. But if Christ wasn't first killed, then he couldn't be raised, either.
Therefore, Theistic Evolution, in my opinion, is a direct attack on the gospel of Christ.