(Unless otherwise noted, quotations below are from the book by Henry Morris, That Their Words May Be Used Against Them, available from the Institute for Creation Research. Links are to articles and papers on the World Wide Web.)
Gould, Stephen Jay, Wonderful Life (New York: W. W. Norton Co., 1989), 347 pp.
p. 60
"An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. Since enamel is far more durable than ordinary bone, teeth may prevail when all else has succumbed to the whips and scorns of geological time. The majority of fossil mammals are known only by their teeth.
Crompton, A. W., and Pamela Parker, "Evolution of the Mammalian Masticatory Apparatus,"
American Scientist, vol. 66 (March/April 1978), pp. 192-201.
p. 194
"In reptiles and mammal-like reptiles, such as Thrinaxodon,
new teeth
tend to erupt between older teeth, and replacement usually continues throughout
the life of the individual."
p. 196
"Several workers have suggested that the mammal-like
reptiles had a
conventional-reptilian single-bone middle ear with a tympanic membrane
situated behind the quadrate. They based this conclusion partially on the fact
that
in advanced mammal-like reptiles such as Thinaxodon,
a groove in the
temporal bone terminates in a lip near the stapes/quadrate contact."
p. 199
"In the discussion of the structure of the reptile jaw,
it was shown that
transverse flanges on the pterygoid bones and a strong jaw joint were necessary
to withstand the medially directed forces caused by the jaw-closing
muscles."
p. 199
"In the mammal-like reptiles such as Thrinaxodon,
which had tearing
postcanine teeth and also large pterygoid flanges to withstand medially directed
forces acting on the jaw, jaw movements during feeding were essentially in a
vertical plane."
p. 200
"The advanced mammal-like reptiles … retained a
small reptilian jaw joint."
[Emphasis added]
Shows that the evidence for the alleged “reptile-to-mammal transition” (frequently cited as proof of evolution) is much weaker than evolutionists would have one believe.
Denton, Michael, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (London: Burnett Books, Ltd., 1985), 368 pp.
p. 180
"The possibility that the mammal-like reptiles were completely reptilian in terms of their anatomy and physiology cannot be excluded. The only evidence we have regarding their soft biology is their cranial endocasts and these suggest that, as far as their central nervous systems were concerned, they were entirely reptilian." [Emphasis added]
Bengtson, Stefan, "The Solution to a Jigsaw Puzzle," Nature, vol. 345 (June 28, 1990), pp. 765-766. Bengtson is at the Institute of Paleontology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
p. 765
"Paleontologists are traditionally famous (or infamous) for reconstructing whole animals from the debris of death. Mostly they cheat."
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