Life is deteriorating
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Claim
Before sin entered the world, there were no net deteriorating effects of the second law of thermodynamics. The decay that we see today, including organisms such as fungi, predators, and parasites, is a result of Adam's sin.
Source
- Morris, Henry and Martin Clark, 1987. Why did God create carnivorous animals if there was to be no death in the world as first created? - FAQ #46. From The Bible Has the Answer, 3rd Ed. Master Books. [1]
Responses
- What did fungi and the would-be parasites do before the Fall?
- If there was no decay before the Fall, then how could anything eat anything, plant, fungus or animal?
- If saber-toothed tigers, Tyrannosaurus rex, scorpions, and other predatory animals were originally harmless herbivores, then why were they created with so many sharp teeth, claws and or venom?
- It seems rather odd that Creationists continue harping about how a loving God created this world, only to pin the blame of why Nature isn't nice squarely on the fault of our ancient ancestors.
- Unless we don't define plants as living and thus dead when eaten, what did any creature eat?
- Taken as fact, it must also be fact that Adam's sin occurred over 13 billion years ago, before planet Earth existed. Creationism is thus made incompatible with observation.
- Why should God want to punish all organisms, when only humans had the ability to disobey? Additionally, it's not as if a clam, or a conifer, or a dolphin could have prevented Adam and Eve from sinning. Why should they have to suffer?
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Fallacies contained in this claim
- Exclusion (features that don't deteriorate are ignored)
- Just So Story (made up to fit the quote)
Related claims
- There was no death or decay before the Fall
- Pre-flood vapor canopy would have made world Edenic
- Pre-flood vapor canopy would have extended human lifetimes
- It never rained before the flood
- Parasites are degenerations of free-living species
- 2nd law of thermodynamics prohibits evolution
