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Should Christians go vegetarian?

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ringo
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07-22-2014 12:03 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Heathen
07-22-2014 10:12 AM

Heathen writes:
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So shouldn't Xians at least try to achieve God's original plan?
Maybe so, but what was God's original plan? The idea that " the original creation was a vegetarian society (as there was no death)" is sheer nonsense.
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I eat meat out of respect for the lions. But I only eat vegetarians.
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07-23-2014 11:55 AM 		Reply to: Message 11 by Heathen
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in the context of the biblical creation myth, pre fall, there was no death. therefore no meat was eaten,
Nonsense. The Bible suggests no such thing.
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07-24-2014 11:49 AM 		Reply to: Message 28 by New Cat's Eye
07-24-2014 10:34 AM

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So why did we evolve the canines that we did?
Evolution doesn't do things for a reason. Behaviour comes from evolution. Meat-eating has survival benefits and we can eat meat because we have the teeth for it. How the teeth happened to get that way is another question.
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07-24-2014 12:18 PM 		Reply to: Message 30 by New Cat's Eye
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Why are they the way they are?
Random mutation is one possibility that comes to mind.
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To find out, we'd have to trace our ancestry back to when the canine teeth evolved (which is above my pay grade).
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This paper presents a review of the fossil evidence for the diets of the Pliocene hominids Ardipithecus ramidus, Australopithecus anamensis, Australopithecus afarensis, and Australopithecus africanus. link
Since our ape relatives also have canines, I was thinking we'd have to go back farther than hominids.
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