Reddit reviews Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say about Human Origins

I'd highly recommend John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis One, Thom Stark's The Human Faces of God, and Pete Enns' The Evolution of Adam. It seems like you're using an extremely literal reading of Genesis, and it might help to look at the text in the context of its time and culture.

I suggest you take a look at these two AMAs from this past year:

• Theistic Evolution
  
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  >My biggest recommendations would be:
  
  > [The Language of God*](http://www.amazon.com/The-Language-God-Scientist-Presents/dp/1416542744/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400689255&sr=8-1&keywords=The+language+of+God), by Francis Collins (the founder of BioLogos; a great treatise about how science and faith can work together)
  
• The Evolution of Adam, by Peter Enns (deals with how to read Genesis in its historical/cultural context, and Paul's use of Adam)
  
• Death Before the Fall, by Ronald Osborn (takes strict biblical literalism to task and deals with the troubling implications of death happening before humans were around)
  
• The Lost World of Genesis One, by John H. Walton (tries to present a more Hebrew (but still historical) way of reading Genesis 1)
  
  
• Old Earth Creationism

Yes, this is a hard problem for evangelicals, but denying the problem is clearly not the way forward.

You might like the Christianity Today cover story on the issue from last year, the shorter NPR article, a book on the topic and a website that (at least used to be) dedicated to working on the problem.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Evolution-Adam-Doesnt-Origins/dp/158743315X

Seriously, do it. It's one of the best resources I know of for almost all of your questions.

I hear this book is pretty good too.

Maybe Adam did not exist after all because that's too literal. https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Adam-Bible-Doesnt-Origins/dp/158743315X

And Noah and his boat? Well, that's scientifically also impossible, so we must scratch it and reproduce our own flood account through science. Since the Bible cannot be trusted to mean what it means, we must employ science to unlock to us the real truth.

What about Jesus's birth, death, and resurrection? Surely science proved that this was impossible, so we must rework Jesus's story to make it scientifically plausible.

Many theologians would disagree. I haven't read this yet, but I definitely will

https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Adam-Bible-Doesnt-Origins/dp/158743315X

I'm currently reading a book that argues for Evolution, while still giving respect to Evangelicals, and keeping scriptural integrity. It's called The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say About Human Origins by Peter Enns. It's well written, and easy to read even for an freshman armchair-theologian such as myself.

http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Adam-The-Doesnt-Origins/dp/158743315X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333438037&sr=8-1