Wednesday, June 11, 2008

What about animal life before the Fall?

Brian Saint-Paul takes a stab at answering this question from a reader over at the Inside Catholic blog:

Before the Fall of Adam/Eve, there was a paradise on earth. Original Sin broke the harmony not only of humanity with God, but also in the natural world. But before Adam and Eve, there were dinosaurs which lived quite violent lives of eat or be eaten...But how to explain the seeming cruelty in having a world where lower creatures are devouring one another, with survival dependent on one's hunting prowess?...There seems to be something very cruel in all of this, and I want to get a better handle on how to understand God as He related to pre-humans and animals before Adam's Fall.

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