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Many people look to theistic evolution as a way to reconcile the Bible with scientific evidences that seem to point to an old age for the Earth and fossil evidence that is claimed to support evolution as history. However, this view has serious theological difficulties. The most important problem is that the acceptance of evolution as God's mechanism of creation appears to directly contradict what the Bible teaches as the very nature of God, that God is good ("No one is good - except God alone", Mk 10:18, and many other places emphasis the goodness of God). How could God say that the finished creation was "very good" (Gen 1:31) if it had come about via an evolutionary process requiring struggle and death on a massive scale? Death, according to the Bible, is bad - it is the enemy! ("The last enemy to be destroyed is death.", 1 Cor 15:26). In fact, the basis of the Gospel message is that the resurrection of Christ from the dead overcomes the curse of death put on the first people, Adam and Eve, for their disobedience to God ("For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.", 1 Cor 15:22; "Death has been swallowed up in victory.", 1 Cor 15:54). Theistic evolutionists will say that the sin of Adam and Eve introduced only "spiritual", not physical death. While it is true that they did not die right away, their ultimate fate WAS sealed wihen God pronounced His curse upon Adam and Eve and the Earth itself (Genesis chapter 3). It is clear in this chapter that God introduces physical decay processes into what was previously described as a paradise. It is also quite clear that Jesus underwent true physical death on the cross.
Finally, IF God had used evolutionary processes, there is no reason why He would not have told us so in a straightforward manner in the book of Genesis.
