Why didnt God make all creatures herbavours?

[RATTER15]

Well?

or did he like the idea of watching animals ripping each other apart in the most savage manner?

ive seen videos of tigers take down a buffalo and other animals and they are eating this disembowelled creature's insides while it is still struggling for freedom.

[douglas9401]

The simple answer as far as I'm concerned is, God didn't because he would have to exist in the first place.

[Count-A-Strong]

Sits back and waits for God squad reaction.......

[RATTER15]

Hush, im trying to pretend i'm a believer!!

No rewards for stating the flaming obvious i'm afraid!!

Try again!

[Count-A-Strong]

I saw through you're phishing trip ratter.

[Old_Geezer]

How on Earth would the animals high up on the present food chain manage to eat enough to survive if al they ate was veg ? Think of the problems pandas have. And it would be too much meddling to ensure every predator stuns its prey first. Anyway all life has a limited span, it just makes sense that they fulfil a function on their way out. I plan to feed the plants, myself.

[douglas9401]

Okay then, the architect of all saw that if everything ate greenery that eventually there'd be a lot of putrid, decaying corpses lying about so he built in the tidy gene to recycle veggie spooks.

[RATTER15]

OG, are you are suggesting God could have designed them in a better way to enable them to survive?

goats, sheep, cattle, giraffes etc, mange to survive.

Im sure God could have sorted it, he was omnipotent after all!

[RATTER15]

douglas, im sorry but all that rotting flesh would have still fed the ground to encourage new growth.

Ok, he could have just created scavenger carnivores, just to clean up the dead.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm saying that, assuming the existence of a deity, then the existing situation may well be the best that can be created without having to continually adjust things and have it abundantly clear it is a system that could not be self adjusting as the environment changes over time.

Yes prey manage to survive but they are a valuable food source, why waste them ?

[VHG]

How do you think we (humans) killed animals before we introduced farming and controlled killing?

Early man would have had to stalk a Mammoth or similar animal and drive it over a cliff or down a pit, and maybe kill it by repeated stabbings, or maybe rip it apart while it was still alive.

[RATTER15]

OG, >>Im sure God could have sorted it, he was omnipotent after all!<<

[naomi24]

I don't suppose it occurred to him. God was a carnivore. He loved a barbeque.

[Mosaic]

if you believe in a creation and god, then surely it is arguable that the tigers are being the best possible tigers that they can. The buffalo then becomes a metaphor for the risen christ, giving itself up for the good of the herd and yet being endlessly reborn.
or you can take the simpler anser to your post, which is you'd run out of plants and have too many farting creatures.

[RATTER15]

VHG, My point exactly!!

My question was: "Why didnt God make all creatures herbavours?"

[RATTER15]

Mosaic, so you are saying God created too many creature?

He screwed up, well who would have thought that!!

[daisya]

Because he was waiting for GM food plan to be invented?? <smirk>

[jomifl]

It's quite simple Ratter, when the garden of eden was created everything lived in harmony and lived forever, nothing fell ill, nothing died. Then that wicked Eve ignored her father, started consorting with serpents and then everything went wrong. (the symbolism is priceless) That is why women are to blame for absolutely everything bad in the abrahamic religions.

[Mosaic]

Ratboy, the salient point in my post is the first word. If.
If you believe in an invisible skyfather who makes things happen, then yoou can persuade yourself to believe anything.
If you believe herbivores and carnivores evolved in an ecological balance at least it makes some kind of sense without bewailing the fact that big cats don't feel ashamed of getting muzzle deep in wildebeest guts.

[Old_Geezer]

Repeating the same statement of faith doesn't really move the discussion on. After as we are all aware of the type of paradox along the lines of whether god can create something so heavy they can not lift it. I suggested this universe could be the best solution, not the only one.

Anyway I'm busy of Saturdays so I'll probably have to leave you to figure out the details.

[Old_Geezer]

Oh, and I suggest probably the best answer to your question is, Why should God make all creatures herbivores ? To please you ?