Kitty
It's not a direct route...
It never is with creationists.
In fact, it is two separate points. The fact that cats refuse anything but meat may have to do with the fact that they have inoperative sweet receptors. If these were operative, there is the chance they would, like dogs and bears and such, enjoy berries, and even grasses (well, they do like catnip!) the way our dogs do. Our old Sheltie used to eat the tomatoes and grapes she could reach as well. They all have liked apple cores! So the first point is that cats may well have enjoyed a greater range of foods before the mutation. That is the first point.
Had a cat who liked popsicles, and another who ate just about everything you gave him (lettuce, bread, potatoes – anything really). I think they were just odd.
The second point is that they obviously require high grade protein, which is found mainly in meat. However if, as the Bible tells us, they were vegetarian before the Flood, then there must have been these high grade proteins available in plant life.
Of course, if the bible said it, then it MUST have been true. Closed argument. Anyone can do the same.
Considering the tearing ability of their teeth, I would think they would have either been going after nuts for that protein or stripping away some kind of bark or similar to get it from some plant or plants.
Kitty teeth are good at tearing meaty moving creatures to itty bitty shreds, not munching on nuts and trees. The lions in the arenas of Rome did not, after all, snack on cashews and palm trees.
Think I responded to the first part of that above. As far as the teeth go, in addition to what I mentioned, we have been literally conned into thinking that only animals with grinding teeth eat plant matter. The fact is that MOST animals, regardless of actual preference of diet, include plant matter. Even animals like vultures depend on the stomach contents of herbivores to complete their food requirements. Granted that last has nothing to do with teeth, but as I mentioned the dogs and bears are totally omniverous but do not grind their food. We need, I think, to rethink some of the things we have been told to believe are true about the animal kingdom.
I suppose you have those vultures munching on nuts and trees prior to the flood too?
If cats were always carnivores, then the Bible is wrong and creation is a crock.
Agreed.
It's that simple. The lack of a "sweet tooth" in felines is interesting to me because of what I have already said -- it may be a bit of evidence that they were not always carniverous.
Cats were always, and will always be, carnivorous. Their ancestors may have been munching on plants, but not the cat.