Watch out, Jim, for Darwin used the very same situation (only involving beetles) to jump start Evolutionism, in contrast to his theory, an ideology to replace the Judeo-Christian worldview.
IMHO, looking at this example in an anthropocentric way is incorrect. Animals have no immortal souls, just what Scholastics called appropriately “animal souls” (accordingly plants would have “vegetative souls”). Therefore, their death is just a little more than the shattering of a rock.
Now, similarly, one could wonder how an abortion reflects God’s greatness and question the relationship of God with His creation and with man and even His existence. But just like man brought sin to the world, of which abortion is the epitome, man’s sin brought disorder to the whole creation, as others have already said. When the man to whom creation was entrusted became corrupt, the foundation of creation was cracked and we now see the cracks, sometimes in the apparent cruelty among animals, but also in storms, hurricanes, earthquakes and other catastrophes which inflict loss of lives, matter animated by God’s will.
So, when you watch such a situation on the Animal Planet channel, beat on you chest saying, “
mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.”
