The Bible Disproves Young Earth Creation

I would like to remind Con that this debate is not about the validity of the Bible, but about what the Bible teaches regarding the origins of life. The question of if the Bible is correct in its teachings or historical claims is therefore completely irrelevant to this debate. I am not claiming in this debate that the Bible is accurate or a reliable source of truth. My only claim is that the contents of the Bible contradict the beliefs of YECists. With that out of the way, I would like to present my second argument. YEC teaches that "Death was brought about as a result of Adam"s disobedience to the command of God in Genesis 2:17 [1]." This can be seen in the Bible verse Romans 5:12, which states that "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." The YEC interprets this verse to mean that all death, both the physical death of cells and the spiritual death of being spiritually separated from God, entered into the world because of sin. Such an interpretation is inconsistent with other passages in the Bible, which imply that physical death existed before sin. Genesis 2:9 says "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." Regardless of how you interpret this verse, it is plain that it says that God wanted trees to provide food. We all know that trees are organisms, and that when an organism is consumed by another organism, it dies. Because this verse in Genesis is regarding the time period before sin entered into the world, it implies that cellular death did exist before sin. Many people who try to reconcile their YEC beliefs with the Bible by saying that trees are not real life forms in terms of scripture. There are three areas where such a reconciliation falls short. The first is that trees are described in the Bible in a way which implies that they are just as living as animals. In Genesis 1, plants were said to have been "made" "after their kind." The only other entities that such a terminology is applied to are animals. The stars were not "made" after their kind. The land was not "made" after its kind. Only living entities were recorded using that terminology. Furthermore, verses like Jeremiah 17:8, Psalm 1:3, Job 14:7, and Daniel 4:10-12 imply that plants grow, develop, and die. Therefore, the view that the Bible does not view plants as being physically alive is contrary to the text. The second problem with the YEC viewpoint is that animals before sin were eating at all. As we all know, if you were immortal, you wouldn"t need to eat. Only mortal things need to eat. Because the Bible mentions animals eating before sin entered the world, either God is not omniscient (completely contrary to the Bible"s teachings [Psalm 145:5]), or there was a reason for animals to eat before the fall, implying the reality of physical death before sin. A third inconsistency is that, in Genesis 2:17, when God "told Adam" (let"s assume a literal interpretation right now for hypothetical purposes) that he would die if he ate from the forbidden tree, it seems as if Adam understood God completely. If there was no death, then Adam couldn"t possibly have understood God. If I tell someone that chemicals can undergo redox reactions, they can"t possibly understand what I mean unless they know what that word means, and they know what electrons and atoms are. In the same way, someone can"t understand what death is if it didn"t exist, as they would have never heard of it before. References: [1] - https://answersingenesis.org...