The biggest threat to (the Christian) God isn't evolution... it's morality. Whether you're a special creationist or theistic evolutionist, why would God create carnivorous animals before sin was ever introduced into the universe?
Simple. He created the physical world in image and likeness of the very conditions the heavens were in.
UPHEAVAL.
In the image and likeness of God ruling over creatures above, Man was given the animals to rule over. But guess what...there were animals man couldn't rule over. THE WILD ONES. In heaven, there were "animals" that God could no longer rule over, the "WILD ONES."
But there were some He could rule over, DOMESTIC ONES. As on earth, man could rule over "domestic" animals...
Gen 3:1
3:1 Now the serpent (Satan) was more crafty than any of the wild animals (demons) the LORD God had made.
Satan and the demons were ALREADY "wild" in heaven BEFORE God began creating the physical earth below IN IMAGE AND LIKENESS of the heavens above.
Which meant a physical world of GOOD and BAD, because the heavens was in a state of GOOD and BAD.
As in heaven so on earth...
Sin has NOTHING to do with wild killing animals. That's EXACTLY how he created them. They killed while Adam and Eve were alive...
Edited by - pomegranate on 21 October 2002 20:34:41