Several years ago, Dr. Jobe Martin, professor of dentistry at Baylor University, studied the T. Rex teeth, and concluded that this dinosaur could not be a carnivore for the very reason that its tooth imbedment in the jaw was far too structurally weak to sustain the stresses generated in ripping live flesh and bone apart.
He further suggested that the sharp tooth blades were perfectly formed for stripping leaves and fruit, vegetative matter that would yield to the shallow retentive placement in the T. Rex's jawbone without destroying it.
My thought is that this is exactly what these observers have found! The T. Rex's tooth was broken off in what might have been a fight over foodstuff with the duckbill competitor.
In any case, the two investigators have allowed their confidence in their logic to override the lack of certainty of how this damage to the T. Rex happened. That is, they were not there, they did not observe the habits of dinosaur, their suppositions are merely that, and their conclusions are not based on the construction of the dinosaur's food chain and delivery system.
The Bible, which says that such animals (and mankind) at that time lived entirely on herbs, is not yet proven wrong by these investigators. They are overconfident of their deductions which are based on non-scientific presuppositions.
Cheers for Dr. Jobe Martin, of Rockwall, Texas, formerly a successful practicing and teaching dentist; now the voice of Biblical Discipleship Ministries, and author of "The Evolution of a Creationist", as well as many other resources for confronting evolutionary thought with fact.
I plead self defense on behalf of T-Rex!
"But Burnham was thrilled at what the fossilized bones told him about the life of the duckbill."
Here is another creationist, devising his fairy tale out of a fossilized bone with a tooth jammed in it, and pretends this is a dinosaur speaking to him through the formed rock.
This is real evolutionary science? Hmmm.
I'll take my Bible.
Great comment and the first I ever heard about this controversy.
I’m confident that T- Rex was an opportunist that wouldn’t pass up a free meal. A 14,000 lb lizard is going to be a perpetually hungry beast after all. I’m equally sure he was perfectly capable of running down and killing smaller dinosaurs and eating them. I’m also confident that there are many explanations for a tooth found lodged in another dinosaurs tail but the most reasonable one is that the T-Rex cased own, attacked, and then failed to secure his meal-as is common in the world of predator and prey today.
Why couldn’t it have been both? I’ve never understood the controversy. Look a today’s animals. The lion is a predator but has been known to scavenge. The hyena is a scavenger but has been known to kill. How many of our carnivores aren’t opportunistic – other than snakes?