Creation\Evolution: The Key Issue

The key issue that causes concern for me and many other Christians is not over how animals change or the geological or astronomical forces in effect, it is the authority of man over God and the key basis that the Bible gives for our salvation. The scriptures point out that death was the result of sin, Adam sinned and passed that sin and death to all his descendants, thus we all deserve death. But God gave us a way to escape eternal death by sending his Son to pay the penalty of death for us on the cross and giving us His gift of grace and eternal life. Any system of thought, or interpretation of data, that puts physical death before physical sin undermines this message and puts the Gospel message in the realm of fairy tale. Likewise, anything that takes away Jesus’ real death and real resurrection undermines this same message. So far, everything that I’ve seen from evolution puts death before Adam and before sin.