Abstract
The purpose of this essay is to examine the intellectual roots and the current status of the discussion concerning progressive creation, and to identify and evaluate eight theological implications of affirming the presence of death for millions of years prior to the appearance of Homo sapiens in the geologic record as required by progressive creation. This piece can be methodologically likened, in the language of a fine-arts painter, to a limited palette endeavor, i.e., the article is an academic account informed by the presuppositions of a high view of Scripture (sola scriptura) and Christ's death understood in a forensic substitutionary sense.¹ However, as an objective theological, reflective exercise, the author hopes that the work will reach a wide academic audience, including readers holding alternative theological presuppositions.²