Nick Gillespie, on Hit and Run, quotes from articles about the new Creationist museum in Kentucky (allowing the title Kentucky-Fried Creationism). This is the killer paragraph:

"Before man's fall," according to one exhibit, "animals were vegetarians. In a 'very good' creation, no animal would die, so there were no carnivores."

This statement, if it really were a key point of the creationist theory would be reason enough to dismiss it without further thought. Does anyone really think that tigers, barracuda, spiders, etc. were designed to be vegetarians?

To believe this one has to discount nearly everything we know about structure and function in the animal kingdom.

Or else it means that creationists believe that God, so pissed off at Adam and Eve for eating a piece of fruit, recreated his creation to put killing and eating into the warp and woof of it.

A more reasonable view for creationists is that God likes death, and set the whole of life as a huge circle of killing, eating, digesting, dying, decaying, etc., because he thought it symmetrical, neat, and therefore designed human beings that way, too. As an elementary lesson, though, he put Adam and Eve in a special place just so rigged to keep them from seeing or understanding the import of the nasty stuff until they make a motion to oppose him. When they ate, they got the message, and were let out of the compound so that they could understand reality as it really is good: a deathfest forever.

That most Christians and religious people in general don't see God this way — as a complex being with no firm commitment to benevolence — just shows how poor readers they are of Genesis . . . and Job.

Of course, how much more fitting is it to see life as it is and explain it with non-personal causal and random factors!

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