Eyewitnesses on Umboi Island
Gideon revealed to Whitcomb that the creature had an enormous
tail. When he was asked for an estimate of the length of the tail, he
thought for a moment and then said “seven meter”.
David Moke and Peter Luke . . . were fishing, using the local custom
of attracting fish with a ‘diving torch.’ . . . this waterproof flashlight . .
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Bioluminescent flying creature seen by Steven Cottingham near Lab Lab.
The young native was shown many silhouettes of birds, bats, and
pterosaurs. From among them, he chose the Sordes Pilosus as the
closest to what he had seen. (This is a Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur.)
Philosophy, Science, and Religion
Scientific theories are based on philosophical axioms,
cultural points of view.
A weakness of
Naturalism related to living pterosaurs
A major problem with Naturalism is defining words like "spiritual"
and "supernatural." To a person living outside Western technology,
electricity would be classified as spiritual power . . . . . .
An example of this overbearing application of Naturalism philosophy
relates to the living-pterosaur investigations . . . Because most of the
investigators were creationists, many supporters of Naturalism rejected
the research,
Commenting on the construction of the Creation Museum near Petersburg,
Kentucky, an Associate Press news article mentioned the conflict between
Creation and Evolution. Soon after the article came out, another article
appeared (not from the Associated Press) about apparent living pterosaurs,
not living in the time of Adam and Eve, but living now, in the time of science.
It’s important to include the word “reasoning” when referring to evidence,
for each scientist brings personal assumptions into any scientific investigation.
