This passage throws additional lignt on "amagamation":

"Christ never planted the seeds of death in the system. Satan planted these seeds when he tempted Adam to eat of the tree of knowledge which meant disobedience to God. Not one noxious plant was placed in the Lord's great garden, but after Adam and Eve sinned, poisonous herbs sprang up. . . . All tares are sown by the evil one. Every noxious herb is of his sowing, and by his ingenious methods of amalgamation he has corrupted the earth with tares." [Selected Messages, book 2, p. 288]

I agree that any statements like this should be backed up with a reference by whoever makes these kind of statements.

We may also consider all the large animals that exists today which man are too feeble to control. There is no man alive who can control a grown alive crocodile. There is no man alive who can control a grown alive hippotamous.

Do you seriously believe that? This is worse than the evolutionist suggest about the origins of life. All of a sudden these new plants just sprang up. Give me a break.

This passage throws additional lignt on "amalgamation":

"Christ never planted the seeds of death in the system. Satan planted these seeds when he tempted Adam to eat of the tree of knowledge which meant disobedience to God. Not one noxious plant was placed in the Lord's great garden, but after Adam and Eve sinned, poisonous herbs sprang up. . . . All tares are sown by the evil one. Every noxious herb is of his sowing, and by his ingenious methods of amalgamation he has corrupted the earth with tares." [Selected Messages, book 2, p. 288]

Puting thorns on a rose also protects it against hungry cows, thus increasing its chances of survival. Are thus thorns the noxious results of devilish ingenuinity or the divine plan of a good creator?

Of course no man can control any ferocious animal without a weapon, but with weapons this is feasible.

"We know from Genesis, moreover, that pre-Flood man was no ignorant savage. With metal forging from the earliest times (Genesis 4:22), there would have been ample technological scope for man to comfortably exercise dominion over these raptors." http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v16/i1/dinosaurs.asp

However, it would become increasingly difficult for a physically and intellectually weaker race to control animals like those described here:

"The tallest and heaviest dinosaur known from good skeletons is Brachiosaurus brancai (also known as Giraffatitan). Its remains were discovered in Tanzania between 1907–12. Bones from multiple similarly-sized individuals were incorporated into the skeleton now mounted and on display at the Humboldt Museum of Berlin;[37] this mount is 12 meters (39 ft) tall and 22.5 meters (74 ft) long, and would have belonged to an animal that weighed between 30,000 and 60,000 kilograms (70,000 and 130,000 lb). The longest complete dinosaur is the 27 m (89 ft) long Diplodocus, which was discovered in Wyoming in the United States and displayed in Pittsburgh's Carnegie Natural History Museum in 1907." Wiki

Although I agree with Inga we can't affirm that all dinosaurs perished in the flood, I would again mention that the fact that a whole subclass, or superorder (I've not yet reached a conclusion ) was extinct deeply intrigues scientists.

If the purpose was that, daisies should have thorns too.

Anyway, Thomas, are thorns part of the creation or of the curse?

"And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field" (Gen. 3:17, 18).