Recently, I watched a television show that said life forms on earth began to develop teeth only about three hundred million years ago. So I guess before that time no one worried about cavities, right?
Seriously, I'm having a lot of problems with the idea of "developing" teeth! How does one DO that?
According to the evolutionary theory, changes happen that help advance the species. If that's the case, why did it take evolution so long to come up with the idea of teeth? If life forms have been around for a billion years or so, seems like evolution kind of missed the boat on that score.
I just can't seem to get the picture right in my mind! All those meat-eating species going around gumming their food! No wonder so many of them became extinct! They probably starved to death!
Anyway, when did the first species begin "developing" his or her teeth? (Which was it by the way, the male or the female of the species?) How did they do it? Did one of them suddenly think one day, "You know, if I had teeth, things would be a whole lot easier at meal time!"?
No, that would have taken a well-developed brain. And most early species had very small, primitive brains, so that rules that out that idea.
However the idea came to be, how did they go about it?
How did they get their first teeth started? How many millions of them lived and died with sore gums before they got the process right? How did they pass the process on to their offspring? How did they, in turn, improve on it, and pass it along to THEIR offspring?
How did they know when they finally had fully "developed" teeth. At that stage, how did they know what to use them for?
Where are the intermediate species- the ones with maybe half-teeth, or pseudo-teeth? If there are any, they're still hiding from paleontologists! Fossils either have teeth or they don't. There aren't any in-betweens.
Regardless of what the evolutionists say, there's one thing they admit: In every species, teeth are perfectly designed to do what they do for that particular species.
What's that you say? Perfectly DESIGNED? How? By whom? Evolution doesn't design anything, because design can only be brought about by some type of intelligence. Something -or someone- who can think, plan, reason.
Evolution can do none of these. It is merely blind, dumb change. And evolutionists can't answer that question either, without sounding pretty stupid about it.
But, like evolution itself, if we give them enough time, they MIGHT come up with something plausible. I doubt it, but I'm willing to let them chew on it for a while!
Occupation: retired-whatever that's supposed to mean!
I was born and raised in upstate New york, but left there in my early 20's. After a stint in the US Air Force, I lived in Canada for some time, before returning to the USA in the early 90's. I currently live in Vancouver, WA, and don't intend to ever leave this place!
Although my career was in electronics, I have always had a keen interest in science, history, music, archaeology and astronomy. Now that I am "retired", I have the time to devote to really studing these subjects.
When my family was young, I spent a great deal of time writing stories and songs for them. Now that they are all "grown up", I have returned to my first love, and started writing again.
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