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To: Gaffer
Likewise, the appearance of the teeth, sharp vs molar-like advocates for the two groups. Look at cows' teeth and then go look at a Bengal Tiger's teeth.

Horses and cows have teeth more like mine. They eat grass. but cows and cats have deep-rooted teeth.

Apparently the TR does not, from what I've heard. And the TR's are more like a razor blade. According to the dentist Martin, they are sharp and shaped perfectly for stripping leaves from trees, or cutting through very broad-leaved plant membranes.

Maybe they are just good for cutting off and swallowing flowers! (smile).

If someone told me: Prove those teeth were only good for what these paleontologists claim, only a predator (live flesh, limbs, tough), or a scavenger (rotted flesh, soft, mushy), both carnivores -- I wouldn't be able to do it with what I now know. I couldn't even say authoritatively that TRs are not herbivores, as the Bible claims all the first moving creatures were--fish, too, like carp, I suppose.

Scripturally, no death to start. Capisce?

22 posted on 07/31/2013 3:27:23 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what He has done for my soul. Ps 66:16)
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To: imardmd1
And the TR's are more like a razor blade. According to the dentist Martin, they are sharp and shaped perfectly for stripping leaves from trees, or cutting through very broadleaved plant membranes.

This, to me, is a specious argument - sounds good, but how does that compare to the teeth of what we used to call a brontosaurus that was 100% herbivore? Another thing that I think is a great comparator is body mass and shape.

It would seem to me that a herbivore would require a rather sizeable 'digestion' engine for all those 'leaves' - big stomach, large intestinal tract, etc. I can see this in the erstwhile Brontosaur, but I fail to see it in a T-Rex. Likewise, I don't see the long neck and tree-top reach, nor do I see the same forefeet to support the massive "digestion" system. Instead, two little vestigial arms with claws that are, at best, usable in manipulating a kill in preparation for eating.

Sorry, but I just don't buy the sharp toothed herbivore argument at all.

25 posted on 07/31/2013 3:56:10 AM PDT by Gaffer
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