tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post2262594859686479926..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: The lion and the lambRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-50632771440121516712018-04-13T08:30:26.275-04:002018-04-13T08:30:26.275-04:00A less esoteric explanation is that Eden had some ...A less esoteric explanation is that Eden had some sort of barrier that kept unwanted animals outside the garden. stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547070544928321788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-51598329180414108312018-04-13T00:47:51.039-04:002018-04-13T00:47:51.039-04:00Seems to me it is quite possible that the Garden l...Seems to me it is quite possible that the Garden lacked predation etc, but outside the garden it was pretty much business as we see it. I can't make sense of geology or anything else otherwise. I take it that Eden may have been in some form of Hypertime, and the fall caused some form of retroactive causation. I guess I mix Dembski and Hudson in my views of the Garden.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-26872592603930421282018-04-12T15:34:35.386-04:002018-04-12T15:34:35.386-04:00I've always thought that it would have been a ...I've always thought that it would have been a bit traumatic for Eve to have her pet deer torn to pieces by a lion before her very eyes, even if the lion wasn't dangerous to Eve herself. So this does present a bit of a conundrum for the idea of animal predation in the garden. C.S. Lewis's idea is intriguing that carnivory was somehow the result of the fall of Satan, which predated that of mankind (and can be fitted into an old earth progressive creationist view). The difficulty with that is that many carnivores seems to fall into natural kinds which are very beautiful and unified in their beauty. A non-carnivorous lion hardly seems to make sense. His entire digestive system, his teeth, etc.,are all designed for a carnivorous life. Attributing that combination of functionality and beauty to the designing ability of Satan, even "under God," seems metaphysically and aesthetically implausible. So I doubt we will really know the answer to all of it this side of heaven.Lydia McGrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423567323116960820noreply@blogger.com