Searching for Ropens

Belief in Pterosaur Extinction

 

A textbook may declare the last living pterosaur died 65 million years ago, but a brief search of that textbook reveals nothing like objective reasoning for this oft-repeated obituary. Why? Look  deeper:  extinction  of pterosaurs is not a proven fact: It’s an assumption. . . .

 

Is the non-extinction of this fish evidence that pterosaurs are still living? No, but the Coelacanth non-extinction can lend support to  further  investigations  into  sightings  of  what  seem  to be  living  pterosaurs:  It  lends cre-dence to the possibility. (The  difference  between  lending credence and giving credence is akin to the difference between signing a 48-month loan for a car and finding car keys in a birthday  package  from Grandfather.) . . .

 

. . . Some of those human weaknesses are fear, pride, impatience, and lack of objectivity. Westerners, like villagers on a tropical island,

are subject to sheltered superstitions.

The General Theory of Evolution

 

Naturalism differs from natural science; it resembles an ancient Greek philosophy that all events occur without Divine miracles or intervention by any god. (Natural science is simply the study of the natural observable world, regard-less of origin.)

 

The idea that all living things have one common ancestor—this is portrayed as “science,” but it’s impossible to prove scientifically. (To  prove  it,  would  require  continuous  monitoring  of  all changes in all biological organisms from the earliest period of earth’s existence with life, to the present.)

 

Closing Observations

 

For imagining a creature that he assumes lived millions of years ago, a professor  is  labeled “knowledgeable;” for seeing a creature that professors assume died millions of years ago, an aborigine is labeled “ignorant.” The professor has no fossil that looks  like  his  creature; the aborigine has no knowledge of the fossil  that  looks like his creature. Who is believed by professors? Who is endowed with practical knowledge? Let’s respect the eyewitness.

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