The Bible does not say that there were no carnivores before the fall of
man. This is simply a doctrine that has been developed to explain the
nature of sin and the effect of the fall.
When I was a child, my Sunday school teachers told me that thorns on
roses were caused by Adam's fall. I never found this in the Bible, so I
abandoned the idea. Roses have thorns because that's the way God made
them--however and whenever he did so.
As far as I am concerned, the primary result of the fall was spiritual
death. The banishment from the Garden drove man away from the tree of
life. The implication here is that man would not have lived forever
physically until he had eaten from the tree of life regardless of his
spiritual state.
The secondary result of the fall is that man eventually became meat
eaters. I do not believe this means that non-Adamic men did not eat
meat. The Adamic line of Homo Sapiens did not eat meat at first, but
this changed following the Flood.
I think too much is read into the story and dogmatic positions are held
in which scripture is stretched far beyond its natural meaning.
Russ
Russell T. Cannon
rcannon@usa.net