This post from Eddie on a previous thread concerning measles is relevant and worthwhile. I do not find this answer satisfying, but I credit Eddie with not evading the tough question here as do many of his peers, or just off loading to the fall, or God is arms length removed defensive apologetics. @Eddie
I can’t speak for Ann Gauger, or Mike Behe, or “ID” as if it has a unified position on theological questions. I can only give my own view.
It might well be that God would create a world in which there were certain harmful things, but in which there was an overall ecology that was good.
There is a tendency among some creationists to read “very good” in Genesis 1 as meaning: “All very sweet and nice, without any discomfort, inconvenience or difficulty of any kind.” I can understand this tendency, since many of the mythologies of the world refer to a “Golden Age” in which, it is imagined, everything is blissful for human beings, and often for all sentient beings as well. But I don’t think it’s safe to assume that Genesis 1 has the same teaching as those other stories. Therefore, I think one should be careful not to milk the phrase “very good” for more than what it was intended to convey.
Could God have willed the existence of destructive creatures? Well, we know that God sometimes…
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