How can death, disease and destruction come before the Fall of Adam and Eve?
There is a school of thought that death does not occur even in the animal world until Adam commits Original Sin. Genesis 3:17b and Romans 8:22 are summoned for oblique support, but essentially this idea of no death in the animal kingdom before Adam hinges on their interpretation of about one half of one verse in Romans. Citing Romans 5:12, Henry Morris explains that death entered into the world only when sin came by man. And, he continues: … it is as obvious as anything could be that the fossil record now found in the sedimentary rocks of the earth’s crust could only have been formed sometime after man sinned. There are at least two reasons that death was not dealt to the animal world through Adam’s fall. First, the fossil record is replete with over half a billion years worth of animal death. That predates Adam by a wide margin. The second reason is that animals do not belong in the same world as man, attested to by the Bible writers themselves. Notice that Morris did not use the en
