RE: A PERFECT Creation????

Kevin L. O'Brien (klob@lamar.colostate.edu)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 22:11:00 -0600

Glenn wrote: "It is this type of belief that caused me lots of problems
dealing with the idea of no death before the fall. Such a belief required
that I think of the world like a roadrunner cartoon, where Wiley Coyote
falls off the cliff, has an anvil land on his head, dynamite explode in his
face and he gets up and goes after the roadrunner again. I found that to
be a disturbing view of reality given the physical strength of materials."

Or think about bacteria. If you start with one bacterium and let it double
in number every hour, within a few days, a week at most, the surface of the
earth would be covered with a layer of bacteria with a mass greater than
that of the solar system. Normally this can't happen because they choke to
death on their own waste, they encounter other organisms that poison them
with antibiotics, viruses kill them, the get eaten by earthworms, etc.

But if there was no death before the Fall, Adam and Eve would be ankle deep
in them in two to three days.

Kevin L. O'Brien

"Good God, consider yourselves fortunate that you have John Adams to abuse,
for no sane man would tolerate it!" William Daniels, _1776_