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by Jonathan Whitcomb |
Living Pterosaurs newsletter 001
March 20, 2007
To living-pterosaur investigators and to those interested:
After several years experience posting to cryptozoology.com, I've come to a few conclusions:
1) The managers of the site have been helpful in putting up a page on the ropen; also, books on living dinosaurs and pterosaurs have been listed on the front page of the site. The problem is not with management.
2) On occasion, someone will inquire about living-pterosaur investigations. I answer questions as best I can. These kind of postings, however, are the exception on cryptozoology.com. Still, I look for such open-minded inquiries, on occasion.
3) The skeptics are numerous and generally both sarcastic and evasive to evidential issues. They prefer casting doubt on the honesty, intelligence, or motivations of the living- pterosaur investigators; they do not offer any sound reason for ancient extinctions, yet they insist on immediate clear images of the creatures that both eyewitnesses and visual images show are real.
4) Comments which are both sarcastic and insulting should be ignored, in my opinion. Why? Intelligent readers usually recognize the weakness of the skeptics approach, so they are free to look into other web sites: pages that are devoted to evidence. In addition, the skeptics themselves are not likely to make any changes in their own thinking while they are trying to think of the next sarcastic remark.
5) I feel strongly that anyone who has any inclination to write about the evidence for living pterosaurs is a person who should write about it. I encourage it. One teenager (Phillip O'Donnell) has written a book on living dinosaurs and pterosaurs. After I have spent about 1700 hours writing the first and second editions of my own book, however, I do not recommend that everybody should write a book. Write a web page. Link to web pages about living pterosaurs. Let others know about your web page. Let them link to yours.
I'll continue writing and revising web pages. I'll continue trying to get attention to this wonderful news: Pterosaurs are alive and well. Wonders! Truth is better than fiction. I'm delighted to be involved in these investigations.
Jonathan Whitcomb |