Cute Nature is Often Vicious

While the Creator may very well have designed creatures to be pleasing to the eye, "cuteness" is subjective on our parts. We like when a kitty purrs, and may be surprised that some of their huge wild cousins also purr. But big and little cats are predators that hunt and kill.

Aww, look at the cute chimpanzee! He is smiling!

When an adult chimp is smiling, it is showing its teeth and thinking about violently ending you. That is why baby chimps are dressed up and ride tricycles, which seems to be abusive.

Lion eating a zebra, Unsplash / Leon Pauleikhoff

Atheists will take examples of predation, venom, and other unpleasantness in nature to say that if God exists, he made awful creatures. Meanwhile, death is a hero to evolution because the more fit take the place of the less fit. They do not want to get the full story from God's perspective. In the beginning, everything was very good. Sin entered the picture, and things went downhill quickly.

As much as we love to sing about our loving Father’s creation (and I’m usually the loudest), is it possible we forget the truth of nature’s dark side? Though I love experiencing and writing about God’s creation, I am painfully aware of nagging reminders of tragedy that will simply not go away. I know wonderful things about God’s amazing creatures, but I’ve also seen enough in the wild to know that the earth groans with pain and death (Romans 8:22).

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