>Hardly. Paul states that death was the result of Adam's sin. If death occured before Adam's sin, or before he existed, then death is not the result of Adam's sin, i.e., a transgression of God's Law, and therefore sin is a fiction. Of course, you realized that Brown's attack wasn't against the concepts expressed by Paul, but the ideas expressed in the theories of Evolution that propose that man evolved from lower life forms. Brown is stating that both evolution and the creation story in Genesis cannot be true. Do you believe that death was the result of Adam's sin? If so, how can death have occured prior to Adam's sin if it was caused by Adam's sin? If you claim that death was not the result of Adam's sin then you have a disagreement with Paul, who claims it is. You will have to take that up with him.

A much more logical deduction would be that Adam was fictitious (or more simply Paul was wrong).