Creation Science Rebuttals

    
   The June 2005 issue of Creation magazine has an article titled “Tigers and pigs…together?”   The author, David Catchpoole, tells about a zoo in Thailand that uses pigs to feed baby tiger cubs.¹
     As a creationist myself, it is easy to see where the author of the article is going.  After the creation, before Adam sinned, there was peace between the animals.  It was only after the fall of man, and the curse, that the animals resorted to their carnivorous activity.
     Unfortunately, this is a young earth misinterpretation of the Bible.  Yes, the animals were indeed peaceful, but which animals are we talking about?  One must understand that the Garden of Eden, the location that Adam called home, was a special place.  It was created as a separate, distinct environment, different from the world outside the Garden.  Inside the Garden there was peace among the animals, but outside, God let the natural laws of nature, including carnivorous activity, occur unabated.
     Why did God need this special place?  In Eden He gave Adam a vision of paradise.  After he lost this paradise through his sin, he could look back at what he had lost, as well as us looking forward to what we will enjoy in the future.
     If you don’t think this reasoning is true, then answer this question.  Why was the Garden created as a special place, separate from the rest of the world?  God could have placed Adam anywhere on the planet.  The very specific creation of a special Garden testifies that the Garden was vastly different from the rest of the world.

¹  Creation Magazine, Volume 27, Issue 3.  Published on the web at www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v27/i3/together.asp