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→‎What is the evidence that Dinosaurs only ate plants: on original herbivory and the definition of living
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Let me say 1st off like most peolple with any basic background in molecular biology, I beleive in evolution. I'm not trying to hide  my view point, but I'm not trying to cause arguments for the sake of it either . I'm just curious on this view point, is there any scientific evidance (even speculative evidance ie. based on tooth shape etc.) to support the view point that all Dinosaurs were herbavoirs, or is it just that the bible indirectlty implies it ( all animals came to be about the same time and there was no death before sin, therefore dinosaurs only ate plants? I'm I correct that this is the reasoning? Though not to be too technical, plants and bacteria are alive too. If they ate these there would be death too (unless they ate only from larger plants ie. only the leaves off the tress but never  grass for example.)
 
Let me say 1st off like most peolple with any basic background in molecular biology, I beleive in evolution. I'm not trying to hide  my view point, but I'm not trying to cause arguments for the sake of it either . I'm just curious on this view point, is there any scientific evidance (even speculative evidance ie. based on tooth shape etc.) to support the view point that all Dinosaurs were herbavoirs, or is it just that the bible indirectlty implies it ( all animals came to be about the same time and there was no death before sin, therefore dinosaurs only ate plants? I'm I correct that this is the reasoning? Though not to be too technical, plants and bacteria are alive too. If they ate these there would be death too (unless they ate only from larger plants ie. only the leaves off the tress but never  grass for example.)
 
-Damien Rivers
 
-Damien Rivers
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: The Bible doesn't merely imply it.  It says that plants were to be food for the animals and humans.  As for evidence, it's probably more of a lack of conclusive evidence for the evolutionary view.  Some creatures classified as carnivores on the basis of their teeth don't eat meat!  The fruit bat is one example.  Further, many carnivores can survive quite well on a herbivorous diet.  Also, there are examples of closely-related species in which one is herbivorous and the other is carnivorous.  We also have examples of herbivores (e.g. sheep) eating meat on occasion.  So there is considerable evidence that originally-herbivorous creatures becoming carnivorous is quite plausible, and so really nothing in science to refute the biblical claim of the animals ''originally'' being herbivorous.
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: As far as plants and bacteria being alive is concerned, see [[classification system]] and realise that it depends on your definition.  The modern scientific definition is that they are alive, but the biblical definition is that they are not.  The Bible defines living things as those that breath air through their nostrils.
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: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 18:07, 13 September 2008 (EDT)
    
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