Triceratops Occipital Condyle - IAC Training Video

The Triceratops Occipital Condyle as a Design Example

So the first artifact we're going to look at is this bone. It's a dinosaur bone from a triceratops and this bone is called an occipital condyle and it's a place where the skull bone of the triceratops connected with the neck vertebra and as you'll notice this bone is almost completely round on one side and that side is what sat in the first neck vertebra and it gave the triceratops almost full range of motion 360 degrees of motion inside its neck vertebra, which would allow its head to rotate completely around the axis of the body.

Now you'll notice that's the same design you see in trailer hitches on trucks and it's a good design to use for trailer hitches because when you use a trailer on a truck that trailer needs to go up and down with the hills that the truck goes over and also needs to go side to side around the corners.

And if you were to use a design that only went one direction it wouldn't work. So you need to design like a ball-and-socket joint which allows full motion and that's the same sort of design that you see in the triceratops dinosaur.

God’s Creative Design in Dinosaurs

So this is just another really cool example of some amazing design that God has used in his creation that we have maybe unintentionally copied and used in our inventions today. So when you're talking about the clever design in dinosaurs, which is evidence that God created them, this is a good artifact to have because it's a clever design that we see in dinosaurs.