Well, here's my two cent's worth. I am also a Christian and a young-earth creationist.
Originally posted by Susan
I'm a Christian and a young-earth creationist.
My one question about young-earth that says there was no physical death before the Fall and that all pre-Fall life was basically immortal is this:
Why did God give His reason for Adam and Eve's removal from the Garden of Eden as such: that they would not eat of the tree of everlasting life and live forever?
From the context it seems that Adam, Eve, and every animal present would have had to have been eating of the tree of everlasting life (which it nowhere says they were) to be immortal pre-Fall.
I'm no scientist, just someone with a question. 
No, there wasn't any death before the fall of Adam and Eve. I don't believe before the flood that Adam, Eve and the animals killed each other for food. My reason for this is, Gen. 1: 29-30. It's says "...I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding see, to you it shall be for food" and quote verse 30- " And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepth upon the earth, wherein there is breath of life, I have given every green herb for food."
As I believe, I take the bible literally, it plainly says right here that God gave both Man and Beast the herb for food. So before the fall there was no need of killing beast for food.
After the fall though, its says Gen. 3:17-20 "...cursed is the ground for thy sake, in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of they life. 18. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken,for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
The above passage answers two questions. 1# Before the Fall, there was no need to kill beast because the earth gave all the food needed. After the Fall, because of man God cursed the whole earth. So now there wasn't enough food to eat, so Man and Beast both had to kill for food. 2# Man isn't immortal, because we were created by God, and that is the reason we had to be taken from the Garden, because God didn't want us to eat of the Tree of Life. Because if we did we would live forever. But in the sense that our Body is returned to the earth and after a while our body returns to the natural state in which we were made, dust, I would say no we are not immortal but our body after it returns to the dust, does recycle. To become future dirt and minerals for other plant's and things to go.
This is a hard question to answer, and I know this doesn't answer all the question, but I really am not sure how to answer. So I hope some else can help you more.
Your brother in Christ,
Anthony
