I don't know that that logic is internally consistent, either.
Quote: evolution requires death to have happened before the fall and sin entering the world. Since death is a consequence of sin, it therefore follows that evolution (which requires death as part of its process) is not consistend with the character of God as revealed in the scripture (ie. God would not permit death in a world not overcome by sin).
So this would seem to apply only to humans. I don't think that any Christians really believe in animal sin. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Isn't it easy enough to say that evolution occurred before humankind and that the evolution from ape/animal to human was coincident with the introduction of sin? In all honesty, that makes a lot of sense to me, as what makes us human is also what makes us both remarkable and terrible.
Of course, that's only one possibility, many of which would argue against that, but I think it is intenally consistent within that viewpoint and therefore invalidates the argument that evolutionary death before sin is impossible.
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