So, if everything was vegeterian in the Garden of Eden, why’d God make some animals venomous?

Okay, now we all know (or at least I hope everyone reading this question knows) that some animals simply cannot live off vegetable matter. They’re what you call obligate carnivores, and they HAVE to consume meat in order to live. Cats, ferrets, snakes, spiders, etc… all are obligate carnivores (with the exception of a fussy little spider that lives on acacia leaves), and they’ll starve to death if they don’t get meat, no matter how much vegetable matter you throw at them. Their digestive systems simply cannot digest vegetable matter.

When this is pointed out, Creationists often like to say “there was no death until the fall of man, and THEN everything started eating meat”. This begs the question of how things that lack the ability to actually EAT meat (such as spiders and snakes) chewed up and swallowed their food, as they lack the teeth and/or mouth muscles for the job.

Most Creationists I’ve spoken to simply ignore that a’la dismissals like Ken Ham’s completely blase dismissal of the T-Rex by pointing out that a bear also has sharp teeth (of course, a bear also has molars, which the T-Rex notably lacks, but that’s neither here nor there).

However, for the moment I’m going to set all that aside, along with wondering what strange form of seaweed the Great White shark was designed to eat, but there is one thing I want to know…

Why did God design venomous animals if everything was vegetarian to begin with? Envenomation systems have one express purpose: to enable the venomous organism to kill other animals.

Envenomation systems are complex, they’re specific, and they only serve the one purpose. They certainly don’t serve any purpose when it comes to consuming vegetable matter.

So, why create whole groups of animals equipped with weapons that have no other purpose but to kill in a world that was intended to be devoid of death?

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