As Mouthy said in her Radio Show -
(Can't work out how to get the ***ing ******rd links to work:)
Who would not be allured and attracted to such a lovely world. We all yearn to see the loved ones we lost again, never to lose children, spouses, lovers, friends, to death.
Maybe somewhere in the universe there is a world where humans fulfil everything they could be (why NOT hope?)
But what about all the mouses, wee flies, fish, rabbits, that die in horrific cruelty and despair?
If every creature that ever was born lived forever, by now the earth would be a disgusting heaving mass of struggling bodies and bacteria - far from paradise.
If god meant it otherwise he sure didn't put the machinery in place. We see from the fossils pre-dating Adam, that creatures died in the act of cannibalism, and killing others.
The whole world works as it is. If this natural world came about after the flood, it confirms that evolution does happen, sometimes very rapidly.
HB (of the "my cheekpouches didn't evolve - they inflated, suddenly" class)