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Although animals are insentient, there is one emotion they can all experience – fear. Ever since God gave man permission to eat meat, animals have feared man.
Gen 9:2-3 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Of course, this means that before the Flood, man did not eat meat and animals did not fear man. The sheep Cain raised (Gen 4:2) must have been only for wool and sacrifices, not meat. They would have had no need to fear man. This would have made shearing and slaughtering much easier tasks than they are today. The cattle Jabal kept (Gen 4:20) must have been for dairy, not meat.
But after the Flood, when man was allowed to eat the animals he kept, God put fear into them so that they would be afraid of the people who tended and fed them and be terrified in their final moments before being butchered. Noah and his sons would have had to learn very quickly how to build fences and tame and domesticate animals so that farming could resume after the Flood. On the upside, it must have been easy for Noah to get all the animals off the ark quickly if they were suddenly afraid of him. They probably ran helter-skelter down the gangplank. That animals fear man also makes hunting a more challenging and rewarding pastime.
The Bible is very clear that man can eat any animal – though God later changed His mind when He gave the dietary laws to Israel (Lev 11; Deut 14) and then changed His mind back again in the New Testament (Mk 7:18-20; Lk 10:8; Acts 10:9-13; 1 Cor 10:25; Rom 14:2; 1 Tim 4:1-3) – and that all animals fear man. Secular science, however, would have us believe differently.
For instance, the Discovery website lists the hawksbill turtle, blowfish, triggerfish, barracuda (under certain conditions), blue-ringed octopus, jellyfish, cone shell and auger shell as inedible for humans. But why would God say we could eat poisonous animals? Either there must be a safe way of preparing these animals scientists don’t know about yet or the scientists are lying.
And biology teaches that many animals native to islands have no innate fear of man. Supposedly, this is why species such as the dodo and the Falkland Islands wolf were easily hunted to extinction.
Like many animals that evolved in isolation from significant predators, the Dodo was entirely fearless of humans. This fearlessness and its inability to fly made the Dodo easy prey for sailors.
There were no forests for the [Falkland Islands wolf] to hide in, and it had no fear of man; it was possible to lure the animal with a chunk of meat held in one hand, and kill it with a knife or stick held in the other.
According to the theory of evolution, many species that live on the continental landmasses have an innate fear of animals larger than themselves or unfamiliar to their habitat because they are often subject to predation. If, however, a species lives in isolation from predation for many generations, it may eventually lose its fear of predators because it doesn’t need it to survive. This is nonsense. Allow me to answer the evolutionist according to his folly (Prov 26:5).
What survival advantage does a fear of predators offer? An antelope may fear a lion, but that won’t stop the lion from eating it. You would have to be a sadist to believe nature selected the lion to eat the antelope and the antelope to fear the lion – often to no avail.
How does a fear of predators evolve? An animal being eaten by a predator won’t live long enough to pass its genes on.
According to Darwin, humans evolved from monkeys. Monkeys eat bananas, so why would any animal species evolve a fear of humans?
If evolution were true, allegedly fearless animals on islands would evolve a fear of humans and other predators when they come into contact with them. They wouldn’t go extinct. Failure to evolve is not proof of evolution.
The fact that animals fear humans makes sense only in the light of the Bible. Of course, it’s very convenient for evolutionists that the dodo and the Falkland Islands wolf are now extinct. The Bible makes it clear that every beast of the earth and every fowl of the air fears man. Show me a dodo not being afraid of man, Mr Evolutionist, and I’ll eat my words.
While smaller animals tend to flee from man, larger ones have a different way of expressing their fear. They may attack man. Bears, hippopotami and sharks are so afraid people will eat them they sometimes attack first. While biologists may attribute this behaviour to aggression, territorialism or curiosity, we Christians know it’s a result of fear. You’ve probably heard of the flight-or-fight response. If the explanation in Genesis is correct, we would expect some animals to flee from us and others to fight. This is exactly what we see.
When animals do attack man because of the fear God put in them that we would eat them, He requires that the shedding of their blood.
Gen 9:5-6 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
It’s important to note that God did not give us to animals to eat. Animals may attack man in fear, but stories of animals hunting and eating humans must be dismissed. Anyway, if we were potential food for animals, wouldn’t God have put the fear of them in us?
Just to clarify one thing. When the Bible says we may eat every living thing that moves, it doesn’t mean we can eat other people, because people aren’t animals, as Genesis 9:2-3 proves.
As you can see, evolution fails to explain why animals fear man, yet the Biblical explanation fits reality like a glove. Whenever we cast doubt on secular science by contrasting it with what the Bible says, we conclusively prove that the Bible is right. God bless, everyone.
Gen 9:2-3 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Of course, this means that before the Flood, man did not eat meat and animals did not fear man. The sheep Cain raised (Gen 4:2) must have been only for wool and sacrifices, not meat. They would have had no need to fear man. This would have made shearing and slaughtering much easier tasks than they are today. The cattle Jabal kept (Gen 4:20) must have been for dairy, not meat.
But after the Flood, when man was allowed to eat the animals he kept, God put fear into them so that they would be afraid of the people who tended and fed them and be terrified in their final moments before being butchered. Noah and his sons would have had to learn very quickly how to build fences and tame and domesticate animals so that farming could resume after the Flood. On the upside, it must have been easy for Noah to get all the animals off the ark quickly if they were suddenly afraid of him. They probably ran helter-skelter down the gangplank. That animals fear man also makes hunting a more challenging and rewarding pastime.
The Bible is very clear that man can eat any animal – though God later changed His mind when He gave the dietary laws to Israel (Lev 11; Deut 14) and then changed His mind back again in the New Testament (Mk 7:18-20; Lk 10:8; Acts 10:9-13; 1 Cor 10:25; Rom 14:2; 1 Tim 4:1-3) – and that all animals fear man. Secular science, however, would have us believe differently.
For instance, the Discovery website lists the hawksbill turtle, blowfish, triggerfish, barracuda (under certain conditions), blue-ringed octopus, jellyfish, cone shell and auger shell as inedible for humans. But why would God say we could eat poisonous animals? Either there must be a safe way of preparing these animals scientists don’t know about yet or the scientists are lying.
And biology teaches that many animals native to islands have no innate fear of man. Supposedly, this is why species such as the dodo and the Falkland Islands wolf were easily hunted to extinction.
What survival advantage does a fear of predators offer? An antelope may fear a lion, but that won’t stop the lion from eating it. You would have to be a sadist to believe nature selected the lion to eat the antelope and the antelope to fear the lion – often to no avail.
How does a fear of predators evolve? An animal being eaten by a predator won’t live long enough to pass its genes on.
According to Darwin, humans evolved from monkeys. Monkeys eat bananas, so why would any animal species evolve a fear of humans?
If evolution were true, allegedly fearless animals on islands would evolve a fear of humans and other predators when they come into contact with them. They wouldn’t go extinct. Failure to evolve is not proof of evolution.
The fact that animals fear humans makes sense only in the light of the Bible. Of course, it’s very convenient for evolutionists that the dodo and the Falkland Islands wolf are now extinct. The Bible makes it clear that every beast of the earth and every fowl of the air fears man. Show me a dodo not being afraid of man, Mr Evolutionist, and I’ll eat my words.
While smaller animals tend to flee from man, larger ones have a different way of expressing their fear. They may attack man. Bears, hippopotami and sharks are so afraid people will eat them they sometimes attack first. While biologists may attribute this behaviour to aggression, territorialism or curiosity, we Christians know it’s a result of fear. You’ve probably heard of the flight-or-fight response. If the explanation in Genesis is correct, we would expect some animals to flee from us and others to fight. This is exactly what we see.
When animals do attack man because of the fear God put in them that we would eat them, He requires that the shedding of their blood.
Gen 9:5-6 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
It’s important to note that God did not give us to animals to eat. Animals may attack man in fear, but stories of animals hunting and eating humans must be dismissed. Anyway, if we were potential food for animals, wouldn’t God have put the fear of them in us?
Just to clarify one thing. When the Bible says we may eat every living thing that moves, it doesn’t mean we can eat other people, because people aren’t animals, as Genesis 9:2-3 proves.
As you can see, evolution fails to explain why animals fear man, yet the Biblical explanation fits reality like a glove. Whenever we cast doubt on secular science by contrasting it with what the Bible says, we conclusively prove that the Bible is right. God bless, everyone.