Specialisation of the teeth

[Ultimatum]

The dentition is specialised: each animal (within the reasonable bounds of health), has a set of teeth designed according to the type of foods they may consume.

How is it that God created dinosaurs and cows, by giving dinosaurs tearing teeth for meat and cows grinding teeth for grass?

For me this is proof for the old Earth creationists (I am an atheist) to use in their arguments when young Earth claims there couldn't be death in the billions of years leading up to Eve deception.

 

[sooda]

The dentition is specialised: each animal (within the reasonable bounds of health), has a set of teeth designed according to the type of foods they may consume.

How is it that God created dinosaurs and cows, by giving dinosaurs tearing teeth for meat and cows grinding teeth for grass?

For me this is proof for the old Earth creationists (I am an atheist) to use in their arguments when young Earth claims there couldn't be death in the billions of years leading up to Eve deception.

The same would be true of bird's beaks …...

 

[shunyadragon]

The dentition is specialised: each animal (within the reasonable bounds of health), has a set of teeth designed according to the type of foods they may consume.

How is it that God created dinosaurs and cows, by giving dinosaurs tearing teeth for meat and cows grinding teeth for grass?

For me this is proof for the old Earth creationists (I am an atheist) to use in their arguments when young Earth claims there couldn't be death in the billions of years leading up to Eve deception.

Following the fossil record of the evolution of teeth you have numerous examples of intermediates between the teeth of carnivores and vegetarian animals, Including adaptations of omnivores (eating plants and meat).

 

[shunyadragon]

The same would be true of bird's beaks …...

Birds range from carnivore to omnivore, to vegetarian, and evolved over time from bird-like dinosaurs with teeth, and transitional forms of teeth and beaks.

 

[sooda]

Birds range from carnivore to omnivore, to vegetarian, and evolved over time from bird-like dinosaurs with teeth, and transitional forms of teeth and beaks.

Their beaks are different depending on what they eat. I was reading about cardinals and bluebirds earlier this morning.

 

[shunyadragon]

Their beaks are different depending on what they eat. I was reading about cardinals and bluebirds earlier this morning.

True, but I was more specifically referring to @Ultimatum and his defending Creationism based on the difference in teeth between vegetarian and carnivore teeth. Yes, the documentation of the evolution of teeth in birds began with the work of Charles Darwin.

 

[sooda]

True, but I was more specifically referring to @Ultimatum and his defending Creationism based on the difference in teeth between vegetarian and carnivore teeth. Yes, the documentation of the evolution of teeth in birds began with the work of Charles Darwin.

Oh... I thought he said the following:

For me this is proof for the old Earth creationists (I am an atheist) to use in their arguments when young Earth claims there couldn't be death in the billions of years leading up to Eve deception.

 

[shunyadragon]

Oh... I thought he said the following:

For me this is proof for the old Earth creationists (I am an atheist) to use in their arguments when young Earth claims there couldn't be death in the billions of years leading up to Eve deception.

Sorry~ missed the reference I am an atheist, and his objections.

 

[WalterTrull]

Yeah? Specialize this!! (De Niro is everywhere)

 

[sooda]

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