do you not understand the correlation there Mervin? This isnt about climate science, its about the scientific fact that what we do directly impacts on the Biocycle and because of that, the claim that the start of morality and sin has nothing to do with the Theistic Evolutionary dilemma in aligning with Darwinian scientific belief!
Let me give what some would consider a really insignificant illustration:
I have a hive of bees in my brick chimney. Now i could simply just light the fire underneath those buggers and smoke/burn em out. I do not do this why?
- bees are an important part of the pollination process and given the significant challenges wild bee populations have been experience in the last few decades, we need to be very careful in the way we interract with them.
NOTE do not confuse the “managed bee hive” with “native bee” population…most people are confused by the statistics there and think we have nothing to worry about and that is categorically false
- what i do as an individual matters. Its no different to the well known water saving slogan used for years by governments “every drop counts”
Now i make my point again Mervin…
It is because of the fundamental science behind how the Biocycle works that the notion of pain, suffering and death can be separated from it is false. Now i know that you are going to attempt to make the usual claim that bacteria must have existed immediately after creation. I have no problem with that. However, we do not know how the biocycle worked in a world without sin…there is no model for that with which to make comparisons, i am not aware that it can even be tested.
What we do know is that the Bible very explicitly states that God made a world without weeds and tares. It had the capacity to survive without pain, suffering and death…so i would state that its highly likely that the way in which soil was fertilized was very different from today. if humans are capable of ruining the environment, and if the bible says that all creation was corrupted by sin, then that means that what existed before sin worked very differently to what we see today.
Im not sure of your academia achievements Mervin, however, Im only barely above the bottom of the ladder with a lowly bachelor degree. The thing is, even a dumbass like myself is easily able to make the direct connection there, so im really surprised at your response but then again, perhaps im the only one here who was fortunate enough to paraglide above the east coast of the city of Sydney during the COVID lockdowns and notice that all the smog we usually see was gone!
The point is, God didnt need to correct Israel’s supposedly errant beliefs about:
Creation,
Noahs Flood,
the Exodus,
conquest of Canaan,
destruction of Sodom and Gomorah,
the apostle Paul being bitten by a poisonous snake on the isle of Malta (science says that there are no deadly snakes on that isle nor have there ever been)…
the reason he didnt have to is because they are all real historical events illustrated in 66 books of the protestant Christian Bible, and the claim its a modern view is just plain silly because the individuals who wrote those books were neither modern nor Darwinian).
Ill make a note here at this point…almost every individual claim about YEC being a modern view never justifies that nonesense with any biblical evidence. Strangely enough the evidence cited is someone else’s claim its a modern view…thats playing pass the parcel and is ridiculous and should be a red flag to anyone who has concerns about TEism’s arguments in support of woeful theolgoical ideas where the bible isnt even used referenced to support said beliefs! I think this question highlights the dilemma there…its just a shame the premise the O.P presents is biblically false in the first place.