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jyeager said:
That's a great question. Many believe that death first resulted after the fall; and that includes death of any kind. They claim the earth cannot have been more than a few years old at the time of the fall or animals would certainly have died. Also, carnivores didn't eat animal flesh, they ate plants until the fall...They even have to go so far as to postulate that the 2nd law of thermodynamics didn't apply pre-fall because a universe with entropy couldn't have been God's perfect creation...they say the laws of physics actually were changed as a result of the fall.

What would be the purpose of having death occuring during the first days of creation? Also why should we think that in the record of Genesis 1-3 that years would have passed? Isn't it more likely to view the fall as something that happened on the seventh day?

Peter

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. Augustine of Hippo