There was no death or decay before the Fall

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 External Links 6 Further Reading 7 Related claims 8 Acknowledgments

Claim

There was no death or decay before the Fall of Adam and Eve, when sin came into the world.

Source

• Morris, John D., 2000 (Apr.). Creation's Easter message. Acts & Facts 29(4): 1-2.
• Morris, Henry M., 1974. Scientific Creationism, Master Books, Arkansas, p. 211.
• Gitt, Werner, 1993. Did God Use Evolution?, p. 43

Responses

1. Then how did the animals eat? Digestion itself is a form of decay (in that organic matter is broken down to release nutrients). If there was no decay before the Fall, how could animals gain nutrients if they couldn't digest their food?
2. And how would nutrients get into the soil for the plants, too?
3. What did fungi do before the Fall?
4. Creationists frequently claim that animals ate plants before the Fall. Plants are alive, so this would also constitute death.
5. If there was no death, the reproductive rates of some insects would have Eden covered in flies and bugs in a matter of days.
6. It also might quickly have become a rather smelly place without various organism that recycle the excrement of the animals, even (or especially) if they were all eating plants.

Fallacies contained in this claim

• Just So Story (made up to fit a biblical interpretation)
• add more fallacies

External Links

• Death before the Fall: The Theology at AnswersInCreation.org

Further Reading

• Larson, Gary, 1998. There's a Hair in My Dirt!: A Worm's Story, HarperCollins.

Related claims

• Pre-flood vapor canopy would have made world Edenic
• Pre-flood vapor canopy would have extended human lifetimes
• It never rained before the flood
• Life is deteriorating
• Parasites are degenerations of free-living species
• Animals ate plants before the Fall

Acknowledgments