Natural Evil?

 

 

There are wasps that lay their eggs inside the body of caterpillars, and when the eggs hatch, the baby wasps eat the internal organs of the caterpillar. They come into the world programmed with an instinct to consume the internal organs of their hosts in the order that ensures their host lives as long as possible. This seems like the stuff of horror movies, not Mother Nature and definitely not a loving creator.

 

In an attempt to resolve the problem of natural evil, Christians say that no animals were carnivorous before the Adam and Even sinned which is not the most reasonable reading of Genesis, nor can it be squared with science.

 

That would require that almost every animal on the planet had its way of life drastically transformed. Sharp teeth and poison glands---and the genetic code to produce them---had to pop into existence since animals were going to start killing each other for the first time.  Thorns had to suddenly appear on bushes. Vast numbers of vegetarian animals became carnivorous.  Scientists believe if this scenario were correct there would be fossil evidence.

Additionally for The Pre-Fall world to be completely free from every kind of physical death, it could not have been an orderly free world at all. Somehow, no animal would have been able to fall off a cliff until Adam and Eve sinned; no branch could break off and fall on a rabbit or empty out a nest of baby birds; no chipmunk could fall into a stream and drown; no hoof could land on a grasshopper. Imagining such a world is impossible.