Cats - Creation Moments

Genesis 49:9
“Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?”

All cats seem to consume a very high fat meat diet. Unlike other carnivores, cats cannot manufacture their own taurine, so their diet is almost perfectly carnivorous, with very little in the way of plant material.

There are many cases where cats of similar size can hybridize. Tigons and ligers are well-known hybrids. They are both hybrids of tigers and lions. Ligers have a lion father and a tiger mother, while tigons are the other way around. Other inter-feline hybrids are possible, such as the blynx – a hybrid of lynx and bobcat. This seems to indicate that all cats are part of the same baramin (created kind).

The Ark would not, therefore, have housed two lions, two tigers, two pumas, etc. There would have been two cats. These would have been something like the saber-toothed cats – possibly a smilodon. All the modern species of cat would have developed from these. This, of course, is not evolution, which requires new genetic information to be made, whereas the speciation of cats involves variation of genetic information already existing.

God made cats. They are such a clearly defined group that it is as if God were making a textbook in the animal kingdom to explain how animals got to be as they are.

Prayer: We praise You for all the wonderful creatures that You have made. We love to see the powerful big cats, and we love to see the small domestic cats. Thank You for all the beautiful things You have made. Amen.

Ref: < https://answersingenesis.org/mammals/how-domestic-cats-differ-from-wildcats-and-other-carnivores/ >, accessed 11/30/2017. Image: Little Jerry, license Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International.