Because the Bible says this, Adam:
¹³Do not have two differing weights in your bag — one heavy, one light. ¹⁴Do not have two differing measures in your house — one large, one small. ¹⁵You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the Lᴏʀᴅ your God is giving you. ¹⁶For the Lᴏʀᴅ your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly. — Deuteronomy 25:13-16
I’ve already made this point in this thread. Any creation model, any challenge to the theory of evolution or the age of the earth, any interpretation of Genesis 1, must obey that Scripture. It’s not about “making the bible (sic) align with science,” it’s about making the Bible align with the Bible.
I’m sorry Adam, what you are doing is the equivalent of asking me the question, “When did you stop beating your wife?” It is a loaded question that comes with an implicit accusation that, for anyone who has never had a wife, or who does but never started beating her in the first place, is categorically false.
You need to understand that young earth creationism is not the Biblical creation story. It is a cartoon caricature of the Biblical creation story with a thick layer of science fiction slathered on top of it.
You also need to understand that many of us round here fully acknowledge that sin is very much a thing and very much the reason why we need a Saviour, evolution or not. Even if Adam and Eve were just some sort of theological construct rather than real, literal people, it wouldn’t mean that there’s no such thing as sin. It would just mean that we didn’t have someone in the dim and distant past to blame for it, and that instead we actually had to take responsibility for it for ourselves. In fact, the whole story of Adam and Eve is an object lesson in not passing the buck in the first place:
- Us: “It was original sin.” Blame Adam and Eve.
- Adam: “It was that wife that you gave me.” Blame the wife, and blame God.
- Eve: “The serpent deceived me.” Blame the demon. “I need deliverance ministry.”
- And the serpent didn’t have a leg to stand on…
Besides, to claim that sin doesn’t exist just because there are unanswered questions about how it got started is quite simply out of touch with reality.