
The Carnivorous Nature and Suffering of Animals
Young-earth creationists believe that the biblical account of creation is incompatible with an earth history of billions of years. One reason is that if the fossil record represents millions of years of Earth history, it has to be said that God’s method of creation was both cruel and wasteful.
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Links and Show Notes
Original article: The Carnivorous Nature and Suffering of Animals
Romans 5:12–21: Paul’s view of literal Adam
Christ as the last Adam: Paul’s use of the Creation narrative in 1 Corinthians 15
Animal suffering and western sensibility
Are we allowed to eat all animals today?
Can pantheism explain morality? And, the fight-or-flight response and the Fall
The problem of evil: pre-Fall animal death?
The Fall: a cosmic catastrophe
Cosmic and universal death from Adam’s fall: an exegesis of Romans 8:19–23a
Was God’s finished creation perfect?
William Lane Craig’s intellectually dishonest attack on biblical creationists
When did animals become carnivorous?
Cecil the lion: should we care?
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