Andrew M. Davis, Creation 
(The Gospel Coalition Booklets; Wheaton: Crossway, 2011), p. 12 (numbering added):
The stakeholders of The Gospel Coalition are not on the same page with respect to all the details, but all of us insist
- that God alone is self-existing,
- that he is the creator of all,
- that he made everything good,
- that Adam and Eve were historical figures from whom the rest of the human race has sprung, and
- that the fundamental problem we face was introduced by human idolatry and rebellion and the curse they attracted.
The reasons for holding such matters to be nonnegotiable are bound up with many passages of Scripture, not just the opening chapters of Genesis. For example, Paul tells us that God “made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth” (Acts 17:26).
You can hear Andy Davis preach on Genesis 1–3 in his series on Genesis.
Andy, does #4 require a direct creation of Adam and Eve? Or does it have room for pre-human evolution up to the point of Adam and Eve, with the assumption that all other pre-human branches never made it to the level of human?
Thanks.
The former. (Cf. Grudem, Systematic Theology, 278–79.)
Does the statement that creation was originally good necessarily preclude human death before the Fall? Death before the Fall was the fourth concern that Keller raised in his white paper which he posted on Biologos, but it’s also the one point I don’t think he answered (unlike the first three). Did TGC omit the human death piece on purpose, or are they assuming this with a good creation?
Good questions, Mike. I don’t know.