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A Whole New Level of Weirdness: Book Review of “Live Pterosaurs In America” (3rd Edition)
The book contains 35 contemporary eye witness accounts from the USA of what appear to be live pterosaur sightings, and a great deal of analysis. Undeterred by the intrinsic seeming absurdity of believing that Pterosaurs can remain undetected in the USA (which as Whitcomb points out is a fallacious argument: they have not remained undetected at all, or he would not have eyewitness testimony — “largely undetected” perhaps?) the author has actually taken seriously and tracked down people who claim to have seen these things, talking to them on the phone and by email. He is not alone – as well as the various expeditions to PNG to look for the alleged pterosaurs there, there appears to be a small but very active research community looking for live pterosaurs in the USA. I get the impression form the book it is rather competitive, and political, and perhaps as backstabbing as any other part of cryptozoology seems to be — but then again maybe not. You see Whitcomb, and the majority of the researchers are Creationists, and not shy about proclaiming the fact. Continue reading
Posted in Paranormal, Religion, Reviews and Past Events, Science
Tagged Creationist cryptozoology, cryptozoology, cryptozoology book reviews, Glen Kuban, Jonathan David Whitcomb, LIve Pterosaurs in America, living dinosaur sightings, living pterosaurs, Marfa Lights, pterodactyl sightings, Pterosaur Sightings
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