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Calvin called the tendency to sin part of a person's "hereditary nature." John Wesley called it "the corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered." Luther considered all humans "conceived and born in sin." Without any real understanding of how genetics and how traits pass from one generation of the next, Augustine straight through medieval Catholicism to the Reformers held the view that sin entered into our evolution because Adam chose to eat the apple Eve gave to him.

Any student of evolution and genetics surely know that an entire gene pool isn't changed in it's very DNA structure through the choice of one of its members. That does not happen in nature. That would be like saying if one child has autism not only the next but all subsequent generations will have autism. Moreover, that first autistic child would have to have chosen to be autistic through some act of agency to make it possible. Got it? I don't either.... READ MORE.