To: flevit
Scientists like to make conjectures based on minimal fossil finds. We recently had a thread on dinosaur footprints. From the footprints, scientists knew the diet of the beast, the height of the beast, and the a few other things.
Sometimes that strikes me as over-reaching. The piece that seems most straight-forward is diet. Based on tooth shape, we should know something about what they ate. Then this comes along. Teeth indicate that they would not eat grass, but scat says they did.
Scientists know less than they think.
To: ClearCase_guy
Sometimes that strikes me as over-reaching. The piece that seems most straight-forward is diet. Based on tooth shape, we should know something about what they ate. Then this comes along. Teeth indicate that they would not eat grass, but scat says they did. Cats and dogs, both obligate carnivores, sometimes eat grass, for whatever reason.
Cats eat housplants to be mean.
We grew catnip, they ignored it and ate everything else.
To: ClearCase_guy
Sometimes that strikes me as over-reaching. The piece that seems most straight-forward is diet. Based on tooth shape, we should know something about what they ate. Then this comes along. Teeth indicate that they would not eat grass, but scat says they did. Cats and dogs, both obligate carnivores, sometimes eat grass, for whatever reason.
Cats eat housplants to be mean.
We grew catnip, they ignored it and ate everything else.
To: ClearCase_guy
Teeth indicate that they would not eat grass, but scat says they did. I've got plenty of stones that came out of dino stomachs that were used to grind food. Like birds, they had rocks do some of the digesetive work.
These stones look like they were tumbled round and polished. They are very easy to find in Utah.
16 posted on
12/06/2005 9:33:22 AM PST by
CommandoFrank
(Peer into the depths of hell and there you will find the face of Islam...)
To: ClearCase_guy
Scientists like to make conjectures based on minimal fossil finds. We recently had a thread on dinosaur footprints. From the footprints, scientists knew the diet of the beast, the height of the beast, and the a few other things.Sounds like the crime lab tech on Hawaii Five-O. That guy could reconstruct the whole crime from a grain of sand.
17 posted on
12/06/2005 9:34:00 AM PST by
Lawgvr1955
(You can never have too much cowbell !!)
To: ClearCase_guy
Scientists know less than they think.Don't tell them that! Scientists (and doctors) pretend to be impartial, but most are very defensive of their postulations and fall in love with their favorite theories. But they'll be the first to criticize religion for those very things.
To: ClearCase_guy
If the animal the dinosaur ate, just ate grass...
then wouldn't the poop have grass in it?
28 posted on
12/06/2005 11:04:17 AM PST by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: ClearCase_guy
Or maybe they ate something that just ate grass!
29 posted on
12/06/2005 11:52:27 AM PST by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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