An allegory of how God created isn't a problem, in my opinion.
But it gets difficult to explain how death is the result of sin, and that's important because Christ conquered death as part of His work on the Cross.
If you had millions of years' of death prior to that, then death is a natural state God created.
Rather we view death as an enemy, an unnatural state, and believe the curse of death began as a result of sin.
There is the difficulty of reconciliation for some of us.
But how God created animals really shouldn't matter one way or another, aside from this.
But death of human beings would be different than death of everything else. Even if the lesser animals died, the death of the first ensouled human would be a different kind of death.
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