But What About the Polar Bears?

So I read somewhere the other day that clothes were invented with a dual purpose: to protect us from the weather and to symbolically cover our sin. 


I thought about the Garden of Eden, and I had a question: Did God create winter/cold? Because if the world was perfect when God created it, then it must have been intended to remain perfect as long as an imperfection didn't enter the world. But in order for the world to be perfect, the trees must continually bear fruit so that man would not have to work for his food. So were the trees created impermeable to winter? Or was cold weather a product of sin? Sometimes I feel like it is ;)


Let's assume that God did create winter in a perfect world. Man would have to be resistant to cold (because he wouldn't have had clothes to protect him), or he would have had an impeccable immune system so that he would not get sick. The animals probably would have been created as we know them, because almost all of them were created with some sort of mechanism in order to protect them from the cold or avoid extinction. Like I said before, the trees would have to be impermeable to cold so that man could continually eat the fruit from them for food. 


So continuing on our train of thought that God created winter, what would sin cause? Sin caused man to become weak and mortal so that he would need coverings and buildings to be protected from the weather. The trees would also be affected and would become withered and barren during the winter months. 


But does the Bible give any evidence of this change occurring? Besides the fact that man became mortal and had to wear clothing after the Fall, there is nothing else that has been revealed to be true. If you know of a verse that may prove these statements, I would be delighted for you to inform me. 


Now I know the question you all are wondering about: What about the Polar Bears? Yes, yes, I will answer it presently. I often have the problem of thinking that the perfect world that God created only entailed the Garden of Eden. That is not true because Genesis 1 says that man is to rule over "all the creatures". If the world was created perfect and God created cold, what about the cold weather animals? WHAT ABOUT THE POLAR BEARS??? Did they travel all the way to the Garden of Eden in order to be named by Adam? Wouldn't they have died if they did that? 


Or if God did not create winter and it was thus caused by sin, were the polar bears caused by sin? This I know is not true, because evolution is not true and there is no evidence in the Bible that any animals were produced from sin, even spiders. 

I will stop this philosophical argument here, as the only answer I have to my question is, "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law." (Deuteronomy 29:29). I am perfectly content with the mystery and awesomeness of God's power, plan, and polar bears. :D