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Searching for Ropens and Finding God - fourth edition
Nonfiction cross-genre: spiritual, true-life adventure, cryptozoology
Fly above common true-life adventures, and dive into what may become the most unsettling scientific discovery since Copernicus and Galileo: living pterosaurs of the modern world----what a discovery!
It soars above disputes about religion, revealing why an official discovery of an extraordinary animal has been delayed for so long. Above all, this explores human experience: eyewitnesses and those who interviewed them. People have become connected by common encounters; persons of various faiths, with various levels of education, from various countries and cultures, have seen a living pterosaur, commonly called "pterodactyl."
Notwithstanding the delay in the official scientific discovery, eyewitnesses from around the world continue to encounter these flying creatures: featherless, long-tailed, often larger than any known bird.
Fly above common true-life adventures, and dive into what may become the most unsettling scientific discovery since Copernicus and Galileo: living pterosaurs of the modern world----what a discovery!
It soars above disputes about religion, revealing why an official discovery of an extraordinary animal has been delayed for so long. Above all, this explores human experience: eyewitnesses and those who interviewed them. People have become connected by common encounters; persons of various faiths, with various levels of education, from various countries and cultures, have seen a living pterosaur, commonly called "pterodactyl."
Notwithstanding the delay in the official scientific discovery, eyewitnesses from around the world continue to encounter these flying creatures: featherless, long-tailed, often larger than any known bird.
360 pages, Paperback
First published April 18, 2014
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October 10, 2024
So first, the bad: The writing itself is unskilled, rambling and redundant. Often the sentence structure is disjointed. He uses long convoluted metaphors to belabor his points to death, so the read did feel like a long slog.
The good: I found him earnest and honest, and sometimes I did like his writing, like his word plays. I see "reviews" of this book or just opinions out there that say things like, "This is clearly garbage." I think people easily dismiss it offhand as crazy nonsense, which it definitely is not. Unlike most people, Whitcomb has gone out and interviewed eyewitnesses, and since then as has many people write him with more accounts.
Now, maybe some people start off with the belief that most people are liars or idiots, and I guess no eyewitness would ever therefore be credible to them. But though I know there are stupid and dishonest people, I have a more positive outlook on people and I actually read the whole book. The native testimonies, and the variety and widespread distribution of others' testimonies is compelling to me. Like the author says, it's not just creationists that believe they have seen a pterosaur. Those that are skeptical don't actually engage with the arguments or evidence; they believe those are not worth their time, because it's obviously stupid. But if you read the book, its not, and they would have to actually dispute the evidence with a reasonable alternative (not just a token, "they must have mistaken a bat") to convince me ropens are not out there. Whether or not he's wrong, you're not going to convince me Whitcomb is crazy or stupid. Being wrong doesn't make you those things. Neither does being weird. He's done a heck of a lot more research than you, and his conclusions make sense from the evidence presented. Haters are gonna hate, mockers are gonna mock, skeptic gonna skep.
The good: I found him earnest and honest, and sometimes I did like his writing, like his word plays. I see "reviews" of this book or just opinions out there that say things like, "This is clearly garbage." I think people easily dismiss it offhand as crazy nonsense, which it definitely is not. Unlike most people, Whitcomb has gone out and interviewed eyewitnesses, and since then as has many people write him with more accounts.
Now, maybe some people start off with the belief that most people are liars or idiots, and I guess no eyewitness would ever therefore be credible to them. But though I know there are stupid and dishonest people, I have a more positive outlook on people and I actually read the whole book. The native testimonies, and the variety and widespread distribution of others' testimonies is compelling to me. Like the author says, it's not just creationists that believe they have seen a pterosaur. Those that are skeptical don't actually engage with the arguments or evidence; they believe those are not worth their time, because it's obviously stupid. But if you read the book, its not, and they would have to actually dispute the evidence with a reasonable alternative (not just a token, "they must have mistaken a bat") to convince me ropens are not out there. Whether or not he's wrong, you're not going to convince me Whitcomb is crazy or stupid. Being wrong doesn't make you those things. Neither does being weird. He's done a heck of a lot more research than you, and his conclusions make sense from the evidence presented. Haters are gonna hate, mockers are gonna mock, skeptic gonna skep.
December 16, 2020
The outspoken creationist underbelly of cryptozoology. It's always a whimsically fun ride, but never on any occasion for the reasons the authors believe. The fact a book such as this (even factoring in self-publishing) can go through 4 editions is perhaps one of the best examples of that strange grey area prevalent in some fringe literature in which pure bullshit is unintentionally made some of the most entertaining stuff you'll ever read...
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