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Grass Grazing In Dinosaurs Confirmed
longhawn writes "Reuters AlertNet reports that a team of researchers found evidence in India that dinosaurs ate grass. This discovery was made when scientists found pieces of grass in fossilized dinosaur dung (coprolites). Prior to this finding, scientists did not even know that grass existed at that time." From the article: "Few scientists had ever thought that dinosaurs grazed, because there was no evidence that grasses existed that long ago. They believed that the grinding teeth found in some dinosaur fossils were used for munching other plant matter, perhaps trees, like modern beavers chew on today."
Yeah, it probably just ate something that was eating grass.
Scoff if you will, but this isn't that far-fetched. It wasconfirmed that grass existed when the dinosaurs were around. But it could have been a mammal (they existed when the dino's did) that ate the grass. However it was found in a titanosaur's (a herbivore) shit. They didn't go around munching on mammals.
Well I'm a christian, and I think that christians should focus on spreading a more important message, than spend too much time on rather debateable points, especially things that don't actually form the foundation of the Christian faith (e.g. Jesus).
If you believe in the behemoth being a dinosaur in the long term it gains you very little even if it is true. Whereas the whole point of Christianity is that believing in Jesus gains you a lot.
In all the hot air from the intelligent design, creationist, evolution parties, was there much really to do with Christianity? Did it help spread the Good News? Was it a blessing to other people?
Instead of wasting so much time in debates like whether we are descended from apes or not, maybe we should ponder whether we really are behaving like God's children or not.
Now if the debate was on whether Jesus died and was resurrected or not, that would be an important doctrinal and core issue, and one worth defending.