It's important that any theory we propose has to be congruent with the broad narrative of scripture. However, by using deductive reasoning, we superimpose onto this a broad narrative of physics.
The Broad Narrative of Physics
The Wages of Sin is Death
What does it mean that there was no death before sin? There are a couple of issues here: 1) What is life? 2) What is dying?
Dying You Shall Die
We resolve the apparent conflict between what God said would happen to Adam, vs. what actually happened to Adam, when he ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Genesis 2:17, 3:4
When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil they didn't immediately drop dead. Does this mean that there's a contradiction in the Bible?
March 2nd
Genesis 1 and 2 aren't contradictory, they have different narrative styles. People who want to see contradictions are looking for an excuse to dismiss the truth, because they don't want the truth.
February 28th
The biological definition of life and what the Bible describes as living aren't the same thing. This is important to know as we see how the process of creation unfolded. Biology is the foundation of secular humanism.