"I have been reading comments from people asking questions about death in
the beginning of Adam and Eve's stay in the garden of Eden. The various
comments reflect an apparent difficulty in linking sin with death.
Maybe it's just that the concept of sin has become fuzzy over the
years."
No, it is because the paleontological record--the ordered array of fossils
embedded in the earth's crust--says loudly and clearly that the cycle of
life and death in the plant and animal world operated for billions of years
before the presence of humans capable of sinning.
Howard J. Van Till