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How do "creation scientists" explain the dentary bone?

The lower jaw of all mammals consists of a pair of dentary bones (a left and a right) which are articulated together at the chin. All mammals have only this one pair of bones making up the lower jaw. Reptiles, birds, and amphibians, however, have in addition to the dentary bones several other pairs of bones making up the lower jaw. These bones include the angulars, splenials, postsplenials, etc. According to accepted science, the presence of this single pair of bones in mammal jaws is a result of the loss of the other elements which were present in the ancestors of mammals simultaneous with the enlargement of the dentary bones. The progressive loss of other elements and the enlargement of the dentary bones is seen in a progression of transitional fossils from mammal-like reptiles, to reptile-like mammals, and to early mammals. How do the other type of "scientists" who call themselves "creation scientists" or ID creationists explain the dentary bone without invoking the supernatural (which can not be done in science)?

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  • maven
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    There will be no responses from creationists because the science is irrefutable.

    Source(s): Logic, critical thinking and the Scientific Method.
  • 1 decade ago

    Let me point out that if you see a bone in the dirt all that you know is--it died. These bones have not withstood the test of time.

    Darwin introduced Evolution as becoming greater, better, gaining, growing higher and stronger.

    Since evolution is always about "gaining" and not "loosing" I would disagree with your explanation above.

    Just because you find a bone in the dirt and say that "Science proves it" doesn't mean anything because science changes by the day. Find something that has withstood the test of time.

    Science magazines usually disprove their own articles as time passes--wait and see if this bone really is what they say it is.. you will be surprised.

    A bone in the dirt does not have a label. Nowhere does it say "I am a transitional fossil."

    What makes you think that bones in the dirt can do what animals today can not do?

    thanks,

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