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From www.answersincreation.org re the book Refuting Compromise
Creation Was Very Good (page 195)
Yes, it was very good, even with death and suffering in the animal kingdom before Adam’s fall. God’s creation was “perfect.” It was a perfectly functioning ecosystem, self-renewing in its ability to sustain itself. If it were going to survive, it would have to be self-renewing. The cycle of life, where an animal dies, it decays, nourishes the plants, which are eaten by the plant eaters, who are eaten by the carnivores, is a perfect circle of life. This system does not contain evil. Unfortunately, the young earth proponents equate evil with death and suffering. The two are not related. I agree with Dr. Sarfati, there was no actual evil in the finished creation.
Sarfati appeals to Genesis 1:29-30, especially the statement “I have given every green plant for food.” From this, he “adds to the Bible,” saying that it teaches that vegetarianism was a worldwide phenomenon. It says no such thing…it is merely inferred from the passage. Yes, in combination with Genesis 9:3, I believe that mankind up until Noah were probably vegetarians. However, keep in mind this instruction that God gives Adam is for Adam himself and the human race…nowhere does it say that animals do not eat other animals. Without death, the ecosystem would not survive, because the food chain, which continually recycles itself through death, must have decay in order to survive. It is a perfect system, self-renewing. No decay (death), no renewing, hence imperfection.
Ian F says – One thing the Bible makes clear, “You must be born again” ! Above we have some of the discussion with regard to the question of how old the earth is. It proves that one man’s logic is another’s foolishness, or worse heresy. That word, heresy, seems to keep coming up in Christian ‘discussions’ about most anything that is arguable (which seems to be everything) and on both sides as often as not. So is the earth six thousand years old or is it billions? Are the old earthers heretics of the evolutionary fold or are the young eathers blindly clinging to their own creation of God’s work, trying ignorantly to uphold God’s honour? Well I think that I can safely say that it is not true that ‘we will never know’ ! One day we will find out the answers to these questions but how do we live in the mean time? One day at a time, ‘the Just live by faith’. We know It is interesting what juggling acts we concoct in order to keep fidelity with some doctrine that we got from the Bible. “Since this is true, then there are only three possibilities and the first two are clearly, self evidently and obviously wrong so it has to be ta da ta da ta da! ‘DOOOR NUUUMBER THRRREEE!’” Even nature itself shows us that . . . The earth is old – young old – young.
How can two walk together unless they agree? So you all just come along with me and we will get along just fine.