[svcw]

What does it mean? It means that some animals are vegetarians.

[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[DeLaine]

Thought this might be of interest to you.

[edcoil]

“animals eating other animals is seen as normal in today’s secular, evolution-influenced society”

PLUS that added benefit of camara’s and film showing that is the daily life of most animals - either birds, fish or mammals. I did not know a bear eating a fish was secular.

[jiggyboy]

Unexpectedly Vegetarian Animals

[Oztrich Boy]

Stupid hippy vegans!

[SnakeDoctor]

Classic case of inferring WAY too much from one Biblical sentence fragment ...

SnakeDoc

[Ken H]

...carnivores (meat eaters).

Ahh. Saved me the trouble of going to the dictionary!

[muleskinner]

Dinotopia alert

[fso301]

At the beginning of creation, there was no death.

If that's the case, there could not have been reproduction either.

[count-your-change]

Isa. 11:7 says lions would eat straw under the Kingdom rule.

A restoration of Edenic conditions?

[ColdWater]

I think it means that God meant us to be vegetarians. Eating animals is a sign of the degeneration man has undergone.

[denydenydeny]

So? I’ve seen nature documentaries where a “vegetarian” hippopotamus starts chowing down on drowned wildebeest; indeed, taking it away from a crocodile.

But “suddenly carnivorous” animals don’t fit into the author’s worldview.

[Bellflower]

ping

[dr_lew]

The notion that animals that are carnivorous today have always been that way needs to be reevaluated when thinking back to creation. Originally, all animals were vegetarian; it was only after sin that death and suffering entered into the world—for animals as well as for humans. Animals that one might expect to be carnivorous but that easily survive without meat—like spiders and cats—offer a glimpse of what life could have been like originally. It also shows that these carnivorous animals could have easily have survived without meat in the original creation.

OK, who's buying? Step right up.

[goodusername]

Strange article.

Is it really news to some people that there are omnivorous species? Or is it odd to some people that a species can have a different diet that other closely related species?

The palm-nut vulture is so different from other vultures that it’s even questionable as to whether it’s even a vulture. It’s a bit controversial as to how to classify them (for instance, it has a full plumage on the head. Vultures are typically bald or are lightly feathered on their head, especially ones that stick their head into the carcass of large animals. That’s a clue that this isn’t a typical vulture and has a different diet). And it doesn’t rarely eat meat - it often eats fish, small mammals, lizards, insects, etc, anything it can get its hands (or rather beak) on, as long as such food is available.

As for “Little Tyke”, it’s difficult to find reliable info on her, but according to most sources in order to get the nutrients she needed she lived mostly on milk and eggs (is that a vegetarian diet? Is that a diet an animal would have “pre-Fall”?) She may have had a food allergen that prevented her from having a usual diet. And judging from her lifespan, may not have been all that healthy.

Lions are *designed* from the tip of their nose to the end of their tail to be hunters - so it’s odd to think they’d be designed this way (by a Creator) unless this is how they are “supposed” to be.

Also, I’m not sure why from the Creationist perspective to think that these creatures “returned” to this diet? Is there a reason to think they were recently different?

[Caramelgal]

PETA agrees with you and AIG.

JesusVeg.com

The Garden of Eden, God's perfect world, was vegetarian (Gen. 1:29-30). Immediately, God calls this ideal and non-exploitative relationship "good" (Gen. 1:31). There follow many years of fallen humanity, when people held slaves, waged war, ate animals and committed various other violent acts. But the prophets tell us that the peaceable kingdom will be nonviolent and vegetarian; even the lion will lie down with the lamb (e.g., Isaiah 11). Jesus is the Prince of Peace, who ushers in this new age of nonviolence. When Christians pray, "Your will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven," the one prayer given to us by Jesus, this obligates us to change our lives, to make choices that are as merciful and loving as possible. There will be no factory farms and slaughterhouses in heaven.

“Show respect for God's creatures--go vegetarian!”

Let me know how going vegan works out for you GGG.