Joelbear,
Yes, of course. Lions eat meat because man sinned. All animals ate only plants before the flood.
You may ask why is it that the Jewish war god gave them pointy teeth and sharp claws? Why is it that snakes have no grinding molars and inject poison through them? Why T-Rex has also no grinding teeth? Why spiders inject paralyzing venom in their victims after catching them in their webs so that they can eat them later?
The answer is simple. The flood took place on a Sabbath of a thousand years, so the war god could do no work under penalty of death. That is why he had Noah and his offspring build an ark.
What you don’t know is that all animals were placed under animated suspension as soon as they entered the ark and went through genetic engineering inside the ark (no evolution). They also used a shrinking machine so that more than 3,000,000 animals could fit inside. Seeds from most plants were also taken inside because all plants in the surface died because they were under the heavy darkness produced by being covered by kilometers of salty water for months.
After the flood, the angels (their Sabbath is as long as ours and not one thousand years, so they could work every six days) took all the excess water from the flood, and sent it to the middle of our galaxy. They cleaned the salt from water from the continents and put it back in the ocean (they forgot the Dead Sea, but that is another story). They took all marsupials to Australia, penguins to Antarctica, and so on. The most important story is that inside the ark they altered the T-Rex, Lions, and other carnivores and gave them sharp teeth so that they could kill easily. The story on spiders is different. Before the flood, they had used their webs to trap flying leaves and used their venom to neutralize their taste. Now they used it in flying insects who grew in abundance due to ferns being replaced by flowering plants.
The demons in charge of collecting spores for the preservation of the ferns were pissed off because their offspring were killed in the flood and refused to collect them. The dinosaurs were sacrificed by Noah after the flood because they were considered to be good animals.
JRP