adoptions make no evolutionary sense, so why do they happen?”
The
authors tried to come up with possible evolutionary explanations for
cats adopting ducklings, and many other instances of “altruism beyond
kinship”. But the crux of the matter, in their own words, remains:
“Adoptions like these puzzle biologists. From an evolutionary
perspective, what matters is how many copies of your genes make it into
the next generation.”
From the perspective of Biblical history, however, animal adoptions
and other evolution-defying examples of suppressed carnivory are a
beautiful echo of a pre-Fall world without death or pain. Also, a
reminder of the Biblical prophecy of such a time to come (The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. Isaiah 11:6; 65:25)." CMI