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I must share with you an admittedly kooky, but strangely reasonable, thought that struck me today. It is that evolution is proof of sin! Well, sin doesn’t exist. But if it did, then evolution would be proof of its existence.

Here is my reasoning. Because we and our environment are constantly coevolving, we are forced to constantly adapt to evolving environmental demands. It evolves. We evolve. It evolves. We evolve. And so on it goes, round and round, always changing and, sometimes, arguably progressing.

Enter sin. Sin is basically a genetic flaw or imperfection, right? And the need to constantly adapt means that we are genetically imperfect. (I would actually argue against the employment of imperfection as a valid concept here, but let’s pretend for now that it makes sense.) So the need to constantly evolve means that we are sinful by nature!

What good is this little revelation? (As an aside, I’m pretty sure without looking it up that some liberal Christian, somewhere, has argued this point before.) As a representative, if you will, of Atheism, you can tell theists that evolution must exist because sin exists (to them, anyway).