The theory of natural selection is irreconcilable with the Christian view of redemption. According to the theory of evolution, mankind and other species have common ancestors. Natural selection occurred through a process of the survival of the fittest, according to which species that were not sufficiently adapted to the environments in which they lived were unable to survive. The theory of natural selection is dependent upon the assumption that there was death in the world before the appearance of man and that death played a part in the development of modern man, since man is a product of the process of the survival of the fittest. Such a theory cannot be reconciled with the Christian view of redemption, according to which: (1) man’s susceptibility to physical death was a result of the curse placed upon him as a result of the fall and (2) mankind has been released from the effects of the curse, including physical death, through the resurrection of Christ from the dead. If, as the theory of natural selection would require, death existed before the appearance of man upon the earth and man inherited mortality from his forbears, then it would be inconsistent to maintain (1) that man’s susceptibility to physical death was a result of the curse, (2) that there is any redemption from physical death through Christ, (3) that there will be a physical resurrection of the dead at the end of the age and (4) that there was a physical resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.