[JohnnyM]

Actually I changed my mind. After doing some study, the Scriptures clearly support no death of either animal or man prior to the fall.

Here is the passage in Genesis 1

Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so.

It is not until after the Flood that God allows for the eating of meat by man.

JM

[curiosity]

I don't see God forbidding man from eating of animals in that passsage. Further, nothing in the passage suggests animals didn't eat other animals.

Also, if humans were forbidden from eating animals before the flood, what did Able eat?

[Stultis]

It is not until after the Flood that God allows for the eating of meat by man.

Then why is Cain described as a hunter, as opposed to Abel who is a farmer? (Or do I have that backward?) Was he just hunting for trophies?! Why all those dinosaurs and other carnivores (supposedly buried by the flood) with big pointy teeth, and in a few cases with the bones of their prey still inside them (and even more commonly in their fossilized dung)?

This notion of yours seems pretty nutty, fully on the plane of the flat earth theory.