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    From John@megane.06@gmail.com to uk.religion.christian on Thu Jul 2 23:24:30 2026
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    I've just been reading an update on the 3 year old lad who was attacked
    by an aligator, after being thrown into their compound in Cambridgeshire recently.

    I've pondered before that some species are just not required.

    Is there a need for crocodiles and alligators? I can't think of what
    purpose they serve. Similar would go for serpents, elephants and their
    ilk, and creatures such as flies.

    It makes me wonder why God created them.



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  • From Kendall K. Down@kendallkdown@googlemail.com to uk.religion.christian on Fri Jul 3 06:34:55 2026
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    On 02/07/2026 23:24, John wrote:

    Is there a need for crocodiles and alligators?-a I can't think of what purpose they serve.-a Similar would go for serpents, elephants and their ilk, and creatures such as flies. It makes me wonder why God created them.
    In the wild elephants perform a vital function in keeping the forest
    alive by creating paths and clearings in dense undergrowth.

    Flies, though I share your detestation of the creatures, are pollinators
    (or at least, some of them are).

    Crocodiles hit the headlines when they kill something or someone, but
    they often or even usually feed on animals that are already dead. Like vultures, they perform a useful scavenging function.

    Of course you may point out that there were no dead creatures in Eden.
    Just as lions will eat straw like the ox (and did in Eden) I am
    confident that crocs will have a vegetarian diet in the New Earth and
    did in Eden.

    God bless,
    Kendall K. Down

    P.S. You don't know what flies are like until you have been somewhere
    like Egypt or, even worse, outback Australia.
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  • From Timreason@timreason@hotmail.co.uk to uk.religion.christian on Fri Jul 3 07:45:12 2026
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    On 02/07/2026 23:24, John wrote:


    I've just been reading an update on the 3 year old lad who was attacked
    by an aligator, after being thrown into their compound in Cambridgeshire recently.

    I've pondered before that some species are just not required.

    Is there a need for crocodiles and alligators?-a I can't think of what purpose they serve.-a Similar would go for serpents, elephants and their ilk, and creatures such as flies.

    It makes me wonder why God created them.


    I used to wonder about wasps.

    It turns out that wasps are definitely an important part of the
    ecosystem. I remember Monty Python putting in a reference to "Britain's
    newest wasp farm" in one of their comedy sketches. Many a true word
    spoken in jest! I think some wasps HAVE been deliberately bred, probably
    to act as pollinators or something.

    The natural world is an enigma, with nature 'Red in tooth and claw' and
    so on. I think it was Peter Cook or Dudley Moore who said, "If I were
    God, I wouldn't have put cancer in, I'd have left that out." Same with
    viruses I suppose!

    The 'traditional' explanation is that this is a Fallen world, and
    therefore not as it was intended to be.

    Maybe it's just that we judge things according to what is useful or
    beneficial for us, and what is not.

    I think it is probably a matter of our not being aware of the full
    picture. This may be a place which we have been banished to for a time, perhaps a testing ground, an opportunity to accept, or reject alignment
    with God. To love God and neighbour, or grab whatever we can for ourselves.

    rCLWe are not living in the world as it was meant to be. We are living in
    the world that is preparing us for the one that is meant to be.rCY C S Lewis.

    Tim.




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