Comments on: The Religious Struggle over Cryptozoology

By: Avi

Avi — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:57:47 +0000

^^ You forget to mention that Nebraska Man and Archaeoraptor were never widely believed among scientists. Piltdown Man did, but as you said, disproven ideas don’t mean science doesn’t work.

By: Jamie Bidewell

Jamie Bidewell — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:57:15 +0000

Its becoming apparent that creationists are clutching at straws to try a validate there claims. I for one believe there are animal species that have yet to be catalogued. But i dont believe an all powerfull deity created them or that he created the lochness monster, ET or even Alf!

By: Huh?

Huh? — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:57:58 +0000

Seriously, fallen angels and the KJV bible? If I wanted to dissect specific wording, shouldn’t we debate the wording of the original Hebrew rather than a much later Scottish re-write of a Greek re-write?
One can’t scientifically identify Leviathan or Behemoth anymore than one could identify Legion by name. They aren’t specifics individuals, they’re concepts.
Worse than the religious fanatics that pick and choose from an old book is Terry Trainor who thinks disproved hypotheses (which climategate IS NOT) means science doesn’t work. Science is a process whereby ideas are analyzed, so of course some older ideas will be proven wrong. Nothing proven wrong about the climate concern yet. Keep making matters worse just to prove a point though, that will help!

By: Tahir

Tahir — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:18:29 +0000

Maybe Fallen Angels(Angels who fell from heaven and are trapped on our physical plane) are the real aliens from ufos, and are abducting people and animals to create the cryptids we now know, and hide them underground, but sometimes let them loose to confuse and scare us. We do know in Genesis 6 it talks about the sons of God creating Nephilim (a race of Giants) from marying human women, and the book of Enoch talks about the angels sinning with others animals also. Maybe the sins were Genetic Engineering, and perhaps the Fallen Angels created the Dinosaurs( Behemoth and Leviathan have never been identified, they only have dinosaur tails, but there is no proof they are dinosaurs), and perhaps God killed the Nephilim, dinosaurs, and mythical creatures in the Great Flood, but maybe the fallen angels are still around (and are mistaken for benevolent extraterrestrials) and are abducting people and animals to create cryptids and an army of Darkness in Revelation 9.
Who knows? God knows! And He tells us in his Word the KJV Bible, read it!

By: T. R. Eddy

T. R. Eddy — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:26:48 +0000

I saw a large cat one day while running around Lake Poway close to where I live. The far side of the lake is at the foot of a very rocky isolated Mt. named Woodson. This caty was knee high at the shoulders and the color of faded asphalt. A mottled gray. He was built like a Jaguar with rather short powerful legs. I would guess he weighed about 70-80 lbs. When he jumped into the brush towards the mountain he had a tail about a foot long. His paw print was about the size of your palm. I described this animal to the cat curator of the San Diego Zoo and was told there was no such animal. But, I saw him from fifty feet in bright sunlight and I’m not given to hallucinations. The only native cats here are Bob Cats and Mountain Lions and this was neither.

By: baccuss

baccuss — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:08:34 +0000

There is no connection to religion, but there is a connection to spirituality. If you dont think that…it means you have not studied the sightings.

By: baccuss

baccuss — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:07:40 +0000

Funny. I think the mormon connection goes as far as…those areas have historical mormon emigrations and settlements. That’s why there are mormons there…duh.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:48:19 +0000

Seriously? Mormons? The less than 200 year old religion invented by some guy?….Ancestral? k.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:38:28 +0000

Perhaps Big Foot and his tribe are early ancestral Mormons. In fact, they may be final proof of the diaspora of the so-called Lost Tribes of ancient Israel. How can you explain their well-known affinity for matzah? Coincidence? I think not.

By: Louie

Louie — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:00:39 +0000

Interestingly, the two scientists who have tried to prove the authenticity of Bigfoot “footprints” have both come from Mormon families…Grover Krantz and Jeffrey Meldrum. The latter is still a practicing Mormon and has published a “scientific” apologia for the Mormon doctrine on the “lost tribes of Israel” becoming the American Indians.