Animals in Paradise - What Will They Eat?

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

I guarantee you one thing ... when Polar Bears become vegetarians ... people are going to get VERY tired of hauling 23 million tons of straw to the wastelands of the Arctic, day after day after day after day ....... after day after day.

Or as Marie Antoinette was reported to have said just before she lost her head " No straw? ... Let them eat ICE!"

... but I may have gotten that mixed up.

(... and I betcha the Polar Bears will equally get tired of all that straw!)

 

 

[Anna]

12 hours ago, Jim Seward said:

That the interpretation that all animals were created as herbivorous is no longer held. 

In that case, what with scriptures such as Isaiah 11:6, 7?

Does that mean the wolf will reside with the lamb in peace, until the wolf gets hungry and gobbles up the lamb? Peacefully though of course?

21 hours ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

Rio Linda

Is that your congregation?

[Jim Seward]

The Isaiah books discuss that in detail.

[Jim Seward]

Faunal carnivory and predation were created by Jehovah from the start and in no way contradict Isaiah.

[Anna]

3 minutes ago, Jim Seward said:

Faunal carnivory and predation were created by Jehovah from the start and in no way contradict Isaiah.

Don't get me wrong, I am not one of those who insist carnivores will only vegetation, as that is clearly physically impossible for some of them. However, my problem is, how would there be peace among animals if some were going to be eaten? And why would a big cat, for example, need claws, if all it was to do is eat carrion? Everything about a big cat spells predatory hunter. Chase and kill, not eat something that has already died...

Perhaps the best solution is as True Tom says "Be there, and you'll find out".

[Jim Seward]

9 hours ago, Anna said:

how would there be peace among animals if some were going to be eaten?

Hi Anna,
I appreciate this question. Predation actually contributes to ecosystem stability, playing a critical role. Viewed this way, predation then contributes to the overall "peace among animals."

See for instance this article by Dr. Fazale Rana, an old-earth creationist biochemist:
Animal Death Prevents Ecological Meltdown
http://www.reasons.org/articles/animal-death-prevents-ecological-meltdown

[JW Insider]

1 hour ago, Jim Seward said:

Viewed this way, predation then contributes to the overall "peace among animals."

I think it was Russell who said that 99% of animals either die by violence or starvation. Of course, I think it was Bertrand Russell, not Charles Taze.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

Google "for those in Rio Linda" ........

It's a common expression and an inside joke.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

MORE STRAW!!!

[Melinda Mills]

I am inviting all those who are using straw and vegetation interchangeably to please look up the meaning.

All animals can't eat straw but they do eat selected vegetation even if it is a moss in the sea.  Right now humans are using vegetation but they also use meat from animals, birds and fish. In the beginning man was eating from fruit-bearing trees only (selected vegetation). I am just saying that it is possible that it can revert to that.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

yEAH, tHE rEAL rEASON aLL tHE dINOSAURS dIED oFF, iS tHAT tHEY cOULD nOt FLOSS !

[Anna]

7 hours ago, Jim Seward said:

Hi Anna,
I appreciate this question. Predation actually contributes to ecosystem stability, playing a critical role. Viewed this way, predation then contributes to the overall "peace among animals."

See for instance this article by Dr. Fazale Rana, an old-earth creationist biochemist:
Animal Death Prevents Ecological Meltdown
http://www.reasons.org/articles/animal-death-prevents-ecological-meltdown

Interesting article. Thanks.