Personally, I think its a Saddlebill Stork. Maybe they're more aggressive at night than we currently realize, either that, or it's a close relative that lives in the same area. This means: it is not a pterodactyl, but an actual flying dinosaur, a bird!
@@THE-ILLEST-VILLAIN-DOOM People over exaggerate and change things. The description of a Saddlebill stork could have changed so much it changed into a pterosaur like animal. But it could be anything so I can’t say you’re wrong,
It's impossible to see a bird, and suddenly decide it's a Pterodactyl. Also no birds actively _attack_ people. I find incredulity fallacy and strawmen arguments in the world of biology to be tiresome.
I saw a video on here about the Ropen, the similar "surviving pterosaur" cryptid of I think it was Indonesia, where the video maker pointed out that the descriptions of the Ropen fit now outdated reconstructions of pterosaurs (if not Hollywood depictions) not what now up-to-date science has concluded they most likely looked like.
folks: cryptozoology and creationism are not the same. You don't need dinosaurs for the identity of cryptids to be fascinating. Heck, you don't even need to look that far back in time to find candidates for these cryptids. Also, I think nessie is some kind of large eel (as DNA evidence suggests) and the Mokele is some kind of large, early pachyderm mammal. All of which can be explained more plausibly with more recent life.
I was gonna post something like this. Sanderson *was* a cryptozoologist, and he believed what he saw was simply a very large, potentially unidentified species of BAT. The Olitau has, in all the books I've read, always been called a bat, a large bat, a potentially unknown species of bat, but just a bat, not a dinosaur, not a monster, just a bat.
They found a five inch tooth in a deer carcass near Loch Ness that translates to an Eel 60ft long with a 6ft maw, Ian MacDonald talks about it in his interviews with Scott Mardis, with photos. Recent environmental DNA studies by New Zealand Scientists led to them speculating Nessie is indeed a giant landlocked eel (or many) supposing that one in a million retain the gene involved in reaching such massive sizes
12:53 That's assuming the natives, which live around such animals, are somehow unfamiliar with them. A rather backwards view akin to a native telling you that you did not see a housecat, but instead, of panther, because you cannot possibly know your surroundings or the animals living in them.
They don't, no. Very gentle creatures. It may have been a fruit bat, but the general impression Sanderson had afterwards was that it was skimming the river for fish, and was trying to chase the two men out of it's territory. I tend to think it's either an abnormally large bat of a known species, displaying uncharacteristic aggression (perhaps the gunshot upset it?), or it's an unknown species that really doesn't care for people walking around it's turf.
@@Crow23346 lol, please show your sources for rabies infected bats attacking anyone in human history Amazing the lengths folks go to to explain away the inconvenient
When youre saying "sightings" you should clarify these are European sightings. The natives report these things all the time because they live there. When you live in the wilderness and grow up in it, you know your animals because if you dont, you may die. I grew up within the wilderness of North America. I know the difference between an eagle and a hawk. The natives can tell the difference between a bat and these creatures. The natives even wear charms to keep them away. That area of the world is basically the same as it was 100 years ago. It is so rugged, unexplored and inhospitable you'll find dozens of different languages within a 50 square mile radius. That region is still unexplored as there are many areas natives wont go because even they cant survive. So its kind of arrogant of you to say you know for a fact there isnt a real animal at the center of this story. If someone were to spend years in those unexplored regions, maybe. But none do. Jungles also consume carcasses and are hardly friendly to fossilization. Fruit bats also dont attack people nor have the teeth Sanderson described!! You dont get the nickname breaker of boats unless youre breaking boats. None of the supposed animals you listed do anything even remotely similar to that. I'll always take the words of people who LIVE there, over foreigners who visit for a few weeks. The natives say these things have killed people. People have lost their lives to these things. I know for a fact you wouldnt say that it isnt real or it was a fruit bat to those people. It may not be a pterosaur but there is truth to this story.
It is wrong to declare Kongamato legend to be made by westerners. Stories of such creatures are very old, and widespread all over the world. More than two thousands years ago, Greek historian Herodot described featherless flying 'snakes with wings' supposedly living in Egypt.
Really interesting, but why have you placed a photo of Sir Richard Burton in this lecture and tried to pass him off as Frank Melland? I was so startled that I missed a big chunk of the presentation, and had to go back and play it again.
@@dr.polaris6423all these supposed prehistoric animals around, you'd think we would get a Polaroid or something more definitive than word of mouth, curious isn't it?
Only discovered your channel a couple months ago with your participation in the 2019 Paleo Review. Very much enjoying your approach to cryptids and your analysis about how popular culture of the time has influenced the various reports.
It honestly seems like a bat or the stork, that makes the more sense, heck we are still finding animals around the world all the time, but yea it most likely not a Pterasaur
I am a Christian who has no quarrel whatsoever with science. What I do have a quarrel with is the attempt to turn the Bible into a history or science textbook. While there are some historical facts in the Bible, other parts are Mythic. Note that I intentionally capitalize “Mythic,” because I consider the Bible to record Sacred Myth-that is, stories that impart spiritual truth, regardless of whether they are literally true or not. In the case of the Genesis Creation stories (there are two), the Bible clearly reflects an ancient worldview: the earth is depicted as a flat disk floating on “the waters below,” capped with “the dome of heaven,” which separate it from “the waters above.” We know of course that none of this is literally true. But when taken metaphorically, Genesis can still provide insight into the relationship of God and humanity. I put no stock whatsoever in the Biblical “days” of Creation as somehow referring to eons of geologic time. The Genesis account is not literal; it must be read spiritually and metaphorically. For historical fact, I consult paleontology, geology, evolutionary biology, philology, and archaeology. That said, I am a “Creationist” in ONE sense of the word: I do believe that God is the ultimate origin of all things. But I believe that science is gradually revealing to us the tools in God’s toolbox: The Big Bang and evolution, for example. I’m actually somewhat mystified by Christians who simultaneously assert belief in God and evince fear of science. Science helps us learn more about the created universe, God’s handiwork. How could anything we ever learn about God’s creation ever disprove God? These peddlers of pseudoscientific “proof” of God’s existence are actually doing a lot more damage to Christianity than science has ever done, or ever will do.
@@eurekasquared9853He never said it wasn't he just said some stuff needs to be taken as metaphor. For instance slot of people think Hell is a pit of fire when that description comes from a piece called Dantes Inferno. The original scripture is mostly a metaphor describing Hell to be this almost slow purgatory like realm
oh wow, that stork can totally be misidentified. Makes complete sense, I've never seen a bird more look like a pterosaur! I was watching this trying to think about what it could be, and as soon as flying foxes entered the video I was like, yeah makes sense, no birds are featherless or have no teeth, but if you saw that profile knowing that a pterosaur was thought to look like 50 years ago, yeah, your mind might fill in the gaps like we are oft to do. Or a stork and a flying fox could have flown around a boat in poor conditions consecutively and the way it was observed would have had someone with no experience mashing the two creatures together. Yeah Lost World, and old school ideas on africa probably had a big hand it it too. I don't know if I'd call the ideas flat out racist, vaguely racist is probably as far as you can push it. In fairness, it wasn't out of malice, we just didn't understand humanity in regards to race yet. There was a popular but wrong theory of evolution where each race evolved separately from different ancient hominid lines, in which the most basal and oldest lineage was based in africa, which is completely wrong, but also a pretty close guess for the time. I mean we have to remember science as we know it hasn't been around that long, like the forefathers in america didn't believe in extinction, because God wouldn't allow it. that was less than 300 years ago. darwin died only 140ish years ago, and even though his ideas are the basis for modern biological views, it wasn't perfect Madam Curie died 90ish years ago. We don't even have 200 years of real science under our belt really. This is only the start, and the way the scientific method works, obviously we are gonna get things wrong at first, the beauty of science is it's self correcting nature were we use new knowledge to continually update our beliefs.
I really love those kind of cryptids that are just dinos. Also, would you consider doing a video on the Mapinguari? (Brazilian legend/cryptid that's possibly based on oral stories of megatheriums)
Excuse me, everyone knows that the earth popped into existence as is last Thursday. And if pterosaurs are extinct, how do I have a pet Rhamphorhynchus that perfectly matches the description of the Kongamado?
Why do people think there's non-avian dinosaurs specifically always in the Congo? I get that they have a jungle but that doesn't mean all the dinosaurs survived there. People are idiots. They don't take the time to think, just spout off about nonsense.
The fact that so many natives just "know" what it is proves it to me. It may not be some crazy pterosaur, but it's definetly not just some "misidentified stork"
Think it's very easy to exaggerate or even outright fabricate evidence for your perspectives when you're already 110% convinced of how much you're right.
Yep, just like the videomaker, Its called confirmation bias. Now its up for you to decide if you believe more in some grown men and explorers and thousands or natives people living since millenias in their own nature or into an arrogant stupid youtube geek and nerd that got nothing done in his live but animating a stupid polar bear and setting up a 15 min video talking about stuff he read somewhere.
@@MasterBlaster220 No, confirmation bias is a specific psychological event when you experience something or see some small amount of evidence for it, but then you convince yourself later that you experienced more of that or saw more evidence than you actually did. For example, while I was writing this I looked out the window and happened to see a falcon chasing another bird. I've only seen a hunting falcon once before, but now that memory is also front and center in my mind. It would be an easy leap from there to say "I must very often seen birds of prey hunting -- after all, I've got multiple memories of it right here at the front of my mind", and if I did, that would be confirmation bias. Or if I said, "Hey Master Blaster, that name sounds familiar, haven't I talked to you before?", that would be confirmation bias, 'cause even if I have encountered someone years ago somewhere on the internet who used the same name, and even if that was actually you, it's still a combination of two fairly common words that anyone could put together. What isn't confirmation bias, though, is making up evidence for your own point of view, which you've never seen. Especially when you do that because you've either convinced yourself the evidence you made up must exist somewhere, or because you believe that as long as it convinces other people to convert to your point of view it doesn't even matter if it's real or not. A lot of fundamentalist religious groups do that, probably mostly for the second reason. And it's just called lying. (Nice attempt to twist my words there, by the way. I can play this game too. ;) I've been a songwriter for the better part of two decades now, so, pulling words apart and molding them into new shapes is something I'm very, very good at.) The worst part is that they're so convinced they're trying to save people's souls, that they can't even see why blatantly lying to those people would push them away. Advertisers would love to do this too, but they generally aren't allowed to get away with it to that same degree Do you want to keep playing?
@@MasterBlaster220 Oh gee wiz aren’t you full of yourself. FYI local natives lie all the time to get special items that they normally can’t. So easy to trick the naive white man.
Always hilarious to see complete lack of self awareness in the scientific community. After all you must address the evidence as it exists, not substitute your own theories and strawmen, which is superstition, not science
@Doublethink I extend to you the warm, welcoming hand of friendship; I extend to you my understanding compassion; but you Double Persist in your cowardly, cringing-dog ways. Siiiiiigh... Very well, Double Desperate cringer, keep on cringing if it's what you're used to and makes you feel good. You're very obviously desperate for (specifically my) attention.
Pterosaurs are quite striking animals. We have them here in the US, but they are very rare. I've never heard of ours behaving aggressively or threatening humans in any way however. I've heard that they still live in Papua New Guinea as well, and that theirs are much larger than ours. What a wonderful world we live in!
Because it's a hoax, the natives don't really believe the stuff but it helps with tourism so when some European guy pulls up and makes up some cryptid they just go with it
When I watch videos describing people seeing unusual things I admit I find them facinating. As a paleontologist I try and keep an open mind, something few of my collegues do. It angers me when so called professionals claim they know something in a hoax, because of the evolutionary record. Who to say someone did not see something they say is prehistoric, I am not going to dismiss it simply because it doesn't seem rational. I wasn't there, and who knows what they saw.
I saw a real, giant dinosaur once. I had just met my future wife & went to her house for the first time & out walks her mother. OMFG! I exclaimed. WTF is that? She (it was a female I think) had a hairy back, thick toenails that could cut through hardened steel & exploding sores all over her ass!
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.” Romans 1:18-23 ESV
I like your channel a lot, but maybe try to contain your obvious spite for religious folk a bit if possible? It comes across as petty and I think the facts themselves are more than enough. Hurling vitriol at the undereducated won't do anything to change their minds.
@@thescorchingpteranodon7986 Do you say the same about Muslims, Shinto, Judaism, ect.? I doubt it. Regardless, I firmly say no; religious people don't deserve to be bashed. So long as they aren't hurting anyone they should be allowed their faith, especially if helps to bring them peace in their lives.
You had me as a potential subscriber sir. But your mocking approach is extremely unprofessional here and has turned me away from further viewing. I agree the theory is unfounded, but we must maintain decency. Anything less only underminds any arguments made no matter what the stance taken. Ad hominem make it seem like even the people citing the evidence lack confidence in its sufficiency and it makes the entire enterprise into playground name calling and bickering. We can do better sir, we must do better.
@Naukumaija Mau-mau I watch the video, didn’t I? Your methods of reasoning and deduction are severely lacking if that’s the conclusion you come to based on this comment
@Naukumaija Mau-mau Again, your claims are based on mere personal conjecture and inference. And your attempts to have a meaningful conversation are pathetic and only serve to reflect you poorly. If anything, I am amused that each reply of mine compels you so strongly to reply in turn as if you hold so tightly to your pride that you hope to somehow put me down or change my mind? Perhaps there is no logical reason other than you enjoy meaningless, idle talk and trying to prop yourself up while discouraging any free thought that diverts from the mainstream way of thinking. It seems like a pretty narrow minded and bigoted approach to things. I’ve seen things from both sides of the argument and have made my choice what to believe. I am just as convinced that there is order, complexity, intelligent design to the universe as others might be so passionately convinced that it is all by random chance and a meaningless existence. Your ardent disbelief is just as much a religion to you that you try to defend. You want to convince me that what I believe is a fairytale while at the same time believing we have come to this moment by mere meaningless chance? It takes greater faith to convert to the religion of disbelief than to simply take a look around and realize the complexity, logic, intelligent design of the universe as well as the moral depravity of man which seeks so strongly to worship self and deny God
@Naukumaija Mau-mau You have chosen your religion and I have chosen mine. You worship self, I worship God. It’s super simple stuff. Nothing arrogant or lacking evidence. You would just rather believe in random chance and illogic and immoral, meaningless existence. You say I am arrogant and yet you insist I must believe your way or I’m wrong? You are bigoted and close-minded
@@manospondylus The Catholic Church has abandoned Scripture long ago and is heavily influenced by Roman paganism, so you don’t really make a very strong point...
Young Earth creationists are correct, because the Bible is a true historical document. I don't like the idea that you automatically assume all your listeners would be opposers of the Bible or unbelievers. You'd be surprised to know how many of us believe in God and the Bible. There are many good RUclips videos that explain well why young earth creationism is not such a fanciful idea!
As someone who is studying history I can tell you that the Bible is not regarded as an accurate historical document by any self-respecting historian as there are various actual accounts and archaeological evidence that contradict its claims.
@@manospondylus you obviously haven't studied history as long as I have, nor have bothered to get an unbiased and sincere knowledge of the Bible, its origin and contents. Numerous upstart young historians have been proven wrong, and the Bible correct, as new archaeological evidence became available. The Bible is reliable as a historical document.
@@loksterization The most prominent contradiction is the fact that classic biblical chronology, as laid out by Ussher, dates the global flood to 2349 B.C. However by this time there already existed various historic civilizations on Earth, such as Elam, Sumer, the Minoans and the Old Kingdom of Egypt (the great pyramid of Cheops had already been built around 2560 BC). All of these had written records and calendars and they all lived through this date without any interruption and without making regards about any catastrophic event. If a great flood happened, these people surely didn‘t notice or seem to care. Neither do the Egyptians have records of ever having Israelite slaves (in fact most of their construction projects were done by free workers) and neither are there historical or archaeological records of something akin to Exodus ever happening, to the point that even prominent rabbis now regard the story as mostly metaphorical.
@@manospondylus you're making a lot of assumptions there with dates and events, I don't have the time now to get into a detailed discussion about that. The Bible also doesn't give the exact dates you mention, you're working off other authors 'assumptions. If you want to find indepth answers to some of your questions, have a look at the Answers in Genesis channel, they have some excellent stuff there. I don't claim to have all the answers or understand how everything fits in, but I know that everything I have investigated so far has just strenthened my faith in the word of God, and the truth and accuracy of the Bible. Another thing you need to question is whether the dates given for certain things like the pyramids are accurate? Why trust some guy's date of a pyramid more than the Bible? That is disingenuous. Also, some pre-flood architecture could still be standing.
@@manospondylus about your questioning of the Israelites in Egypt, you will be in for a few surprises! Check out Answers in Genesis, we have evidence and proof of Moses and the Israelites, and the Exodus. Even to the forum exact dates the Bible implies! I bet you didn't know that! But it's the truth.
Homie was dying from a chest wound and this crazy white dude came and showed him pictures of Rodan, I would be fucking scared too
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Personally, I think its a Saddlebill Stork. Maybe they're more aggressive at night than we currently realize, either that, or it's a close relative that lives in the same area. This means: it is not a pterodactyl, but an actual flying dinosaur, a bird!
I don't think so 🤔🤔
@@THE-ILLEST-VILLAIN-DOOM People over exaggerate and change things. The description of a Saddlebill stork could have changed so much it changed into a pterosaur like animal. But it could be anything so I can’t say you’re wrong,
It's impossible to see a bird, and suddenly decide it's a Pterodactyl. Also no birds actively _attack_ people.
I find incredulity fallacy and strawmen arguments in the world of biology to be tiresome.
@@uncannyvalley2350 There ARE birds that actively attack people whenever you get near their nests.
@@williamjordan5554 yeah, they dive bomb you, I've had it happen, they don't actually try to kill you
You know the guy who runs Genesis Park actually came to my museum that I work at. Was a very surreal visit for me.
He also came to my house laboratory a few years ago (I am a cryptozoologist XD:-) )
Pretty sure he left my toilet seat up, and set fire to a bag of poop on my doorstep!
Nice!
I saw a video on here about the Ropen, the similar "surviving pterosaur" cryptid of I think it was Indonesia, where the video maker pointed out that the descriptions of the Ropen fit now outdated reconstructions of pterosaurs (if not Hollywood depictions) not what now up-to-date science has concluded they most likely looked like.
You mean Trey's video on it? Also, it was in New Guinea(to my knowledge)..
@@dr.masiaka7048 Probably Trey the Explainer yeah.... can't remember the exact country but it was somewhere in South East Asia.
New Guinea, and mistaking a fruit bat for for a pterodactyl is a bit of a leap, esp in reference to seeing teeth in it's mouth
@@uncannyvalley2350 Yeah, but then again, confirmation bias does wonders..
@@dr.masiaka7048 I'm not the one using confirmation bias bud, I've used legitimate arguments throughout, maybe take a look in that mirror?
That's so great "where was it?" *points* *everyone runs the other way* lmao
folks: cryptozoology and creationism are not the same. You don't need dinosaurs for the identity of cryptids to be fascinating. Heck, you don't even need to look that far back in time to find candidates for these cryptids.
Also, I think nessie is some kind of large eel (as DNA evidence suggests) and the Mokele is some kind of large, early pachyderm mammal. All of which can be explained more plausibly with more recent life.
I was gonna post something like this. Sanderson *was* a cryptozoologist, and he believed what he saw was simply a very large, potentially unidentified species of BAT. The Olitau has, in all the books I've read, always been called a bat, a large bat, a potentially unknown species of bat, but just a bat, not a dinosaur, not a monster, just a bat.
Also not acutely described/ portrayed often. Every animal is a
creypted- unknown. Until its verafied.
They found a five inch tooth in a deer carcass near Loch Ness that translates to an Eel 60ft long with a 6ft maw, Ian MacDonald talks about it in his interviews with Scott Mardis, with photos.
Recent environmental DNA studies by New Zealand Scientists led to them speculating Nessie is indeed a giant landlocked eel (or many) supposing that one in a million retain the gene involved in reaching such massive sizes
12:53 That's assuming the natives, which live around such animals, are somehow unfamiliar with them. A rather backwards view akin to a native telling you that you did not see a housecat, but instead, of panther, because you cannot possibly know your surroundings or the animals living in them.
7:50 Ah! I also thought of a fruitbat, they're pretty big with 'dracula-like wings' but they're so cute ! Do fruitbats ever attack humans ?
I don't think so, im pretty sure they're docile
@@korrafey1044 i think one with rabies could. Animals with rabies tend to attack anything viciously
They don't, no. Very gentle creatures.
It may have been a fruit bat, but the general impression Sanderson had afterwards was that it was skimming the river for fish, and was trying to chase the two men out of it's territory.
I tend to think it's either an abnormally large bat of a known species, displaying uncharacteristic aggression (perhaps the gunshot upset it?), or it's an unknown species that really doesn't care for people walking around it's turf.
@@Crow23346 lol, please show your sources for rabies infected bats attacking anyone in human history
Amazing the lengths folks go to to explain away the inconvenient
12:30 that's pretty similar to the tale of the supposed pterosaur in New Guinea
Yes! It’s here!
When youre saying "sightings" you should clarify these are European sightings.
The natives report these things all the time because they live there. When you live in the wilderness and grow up in it, you know your animals because if you dont, you may die. I grew up within the wilderness of North America. I know the difference between an eagle and a hawk. The natives can tell the difference between a bat and these creatures. The natives even wear charms to keep them away. That area of the world is basically the same as it was 100 years ago. It is so rugged, unexplored and inhospitable you'll find dozens of different languages within a 50 square mile radius. That region is still unexplored as there are many areas natives wont go because even they cant survive. So its kind of arrogant of you to say you know for a fact there isnt a real animal at the center of this story. If someone were to spend years in those unexplored regions, maybe. But none do. Jungles also consume carcasses and are hardly friendly to fossilization. Fruit bats also dont attack people nor have the teeth Sanderson described!!
You dont get the nickname breaker of boats unless youre breaking boats. None of the supposed animals you listed do anything even remotely similar to that. I'll always take the words of people who LIVE there, over foreigners who visit for a few weeks.
The natives say these things have killed people. People have lost their lives to these things. I know for a fact you wouldnt say that it isnt real or it was a fruit bat to those people.
It may not be a pterosaur but there is truth to this story.
I bought a PHD so my bias is the olny correct one. Don't you ? Me
It is wrong to declare Kongamato legend to be made by westerners. Stories of such creatures are very old, and widespread all over the world. More than two thousands years ago, Greek historian Herodot described featherless flying 'snakes with wings' supposedly living in Egypt.
Really interesting, but why have you placed a photo of Sir Richard Burton in this lecture and tried to pass him off as Frank Melland? I was so startled that I missed a big chunk of the presentation, and had to go back and play it again.
Never heard of this one, interesting stuff.
It’s certainly not as well known as the Mokele Mbembe, that’s for sure!
@@dr.polaris6423all these supposed prehistoric animals around, you'd think we would get a Polaroid or something more definitive than word of mouth, curious isn't it?
Only discovered your channel a couple months ago with your participation in the 2019 Paleo Review. Very much enjoying your approach to cryptids and your analysis about how popular culture of the time has influenced the various reports.
It honestly seems like a bat or the stork, that makes the more sense, heck we are still finding animals around the world all the time, but yea it most likely not a Pterasaur
People report seeing pterosaur around the world to this day.
But hey, what would biologists and vets know about an animal that's 20ft away....
I am a Christian who has no quarrel whatsoever with science. What I do have a quarrel with is the attempt to turn the Bible into a history or science textbook. While there are some historical facts in the Bible, other parts are Mythic. Note that I intentionally capitalize “Mythic,” because I consider the Bible to record Sacred Myth-that is, stories that impart spiritual truth, regardless of whether they are literally true or not.
In the case of the Genesis Creation stories (there are two), the Bible clearly reflects an ancient worldview: the earth is depicted as a flat disk floating on “the waters below,” capped with “the dome of heaven,” which separate it from “the waters above.” We know of course that none of this is literally true. But when taken metaphorically, Genesis can still provide insight into the relationship of God and humanity. I put no stock whatsoever in the Biblical “days” of Creation as somehow referring to eons of geologic time. The Genesis account is not literal; it must be read spiritually and metaphorically. For historical fact, I consult paleontology, geology, evolutionary biology, philology, and archaeology.
That said, I am a “Creationist” in ONE sense of the word: I do believe that God is the ultimate origin of all things. But I believe that science is gradually revealing to us the tools in God’s toolbox: The Big Bang and evolution, for example.
I’m actually somewhat mystified by Christians who simultaneously assert belief in God and evince fear of science. Science helps us learn more about the created universe, God’s handiwork. How could anything we ever learn about God’s creation ever disprove God? These peddlers of pseudoscientific “proof” of God’s existence are actually doing a lot more damage to Christianity than science has ever done, or ever will do.
Amen to that brother!
You're not a Christian then
What are your views on Alien beings?
Nope. The Bible is accurate and a real Christian would never say otherwise. Nice try though.
@@eurekasquared9853He never said it wasn't he just said some stuff needs to be taken as metaphor. For instance slot of people think Hell is a pit of fire when that description comes from a piece called Dantes Inferno. The original scripture is mostly a metaphor describing Hell to be this almost slow purgatory like realm
My first guess was possibly the eerie looking Hammer headed bat. A large somewhat creepy looking fruit bat that lives in the congo
Is this the same as the ropen or does it somehow get classified differently?
The depressing thing to me is how all these European dude’s first instinct when seeing something new & brilliant is to shoot it.
oh wow, that stork can totally be misidentified. Makes complete sense, I've never seen a bird more look like a pterosaur! I was watching this trying to think about what it could be, and as soon as flying foxes entered the video I was like, yeah makes sense, no birds are featherless or have no teeth, but if you saw that profile knowing that a pterosaur was thought to look like 50 years ago, yeah, your mind might fill in the gaps like we are oft to do. Or a stork and a flying fox could have flown around a boat in poor conditions consecutively and the way it was observed would have had someone with no experience mashing the two creatures together. Yeah Lost World, and old school ideas on africa probably had a big hand it it too. I don't know if I'd call the ideas flat out racist, vaguely racist is probably as far as you can push it. In fairness, it wasn't out of malice, we just didn't understand humanity in regards to race yet. There was a popular but wrong theory of evolution where each race evolved separately from different ancient hominid lines, in which the most basal and oldest lineage was based in africa, which is completely wrong, but also a pretty close guess for the time. I mean we have to remember science as we know it hasn't been around that long, like the forefathers in america didn't believe in extinction, because God wouldn't allow it. that was less than 300 years ago. darwin died only 140ish years ago, and even though his ideas are the basis for modern biological views, it wasn't perfect Madam Curie died 90ish years ago. We don't even have 200 years of real science under our belt really. This is only the start, and the way the scientific method works, obviously we are gonna get things wrong at first, the beauty of science is it's self correcting nature were we use new knowledge to continually update our beliefs.
Except witnesses report up close encounters with actual pterosaurs all over the world including America, right up to this day
The kongamato is most likely a misidentified ropen. ;-)
The ropen is most likely a misidentified mothman
@@coopernoble6139 Mothman is a whale shark.
@@Tycoondashie I am Mothman.
12:50 - This is terrifying,
I really love those kind of cryptids that are just dinos.
Also, would you consider doing a video on the Mapinguari? (Brazilian legend/cryptid that's possibly based on oral stories of megatheriums)
It’s like a rhamphorhynchus fused with a stork.
Excuse me, everyone knows that the earth popped into existence as is last Thursday. And if pterosaurs are extinct, how do I have a pet Rhamphorhynchus that perfectly matches the description of the Kongamado?
Why do people think there's non-avian dinosaurs specifically always in the Congo? I get that they have a jungle but that doesn't mean all the dinosaurs survived there. People are idiots. They don't take the time to think, just spout off about nonsense.
Maybe it's a large unidentified species of bats.
Just was spotted in Westfield Massachusetts last night very real
The fact that so many natives just "know" what it is proves it to me. It may not be some crazy pterosaur, but it's definetly not just some "misidentified stork"
Hovind is fun, but don't believe anything he says. He is a Gish galloper extraordinaire.
Silence sheep.
the unnecessary flashing and jittering is bad for projectors. I like these videos but I like lamp life more.
Demons were considered to be physical beings in European cultures too.
Think it's very easy to exaggerate or even outright fabricate evidence for your perspectives when you're already 110% convinced of how much you're right.
Yep, just like the videomaker, Its called confirmation bias. Now its up for you to decide if you believe more in some grown men and explorers and thousands or natives people living since millenias in their own nature or into an arrogant stupid youtube geek and nerd that got nothing done in his live but animating a stupid polar bear and setting up a 15 min video talking about stuff he read somewhere.
@@MasterBlaster220 No, confirmation bias is a specific psychological event when you experience something or see some small amount of evidence for it, but then you convince yourself later that you experienced more of that or saw more evidence than you actually did.
For example, while I was writing this I looked out the window and happened to see a falcon chasing another bird. I've only seen a hunting falcon once before, but now that memory is also front and center in my mind. It would be an easy leap from there to say "I must very often seen birds of prey hunting -- after all, I've got multiple memories of it right here at the front of my mind", and if I did, that would be confirmation bias.
Or if I said, "Hey Master Blaster, that name sounds familiar, haven't I talked to you before?", that would be confirmation bias, 'cause even if I have encountered someone years ago somewhere on the internet who used the same name, and even if that was actually you, it's still a combination of two fairly common words that anyone could put together.
What isn't confirmation bias, though, is making up evidence for your own point of view, which you've never seen.
Especially when you do that because you've either convinced yourself the evidence you made up must exist somewhere, or because you believe that as long as it convinces other people to convert to your point of view it doesn't even matter if it's real or not.
A lot of fundamentalist religious groups do that, probably mostly for the second reason. And it's just called lying.
(Nice attempt to twist my words there, by the way.
I can play this game too. ;) I've been a songwriter for the better part of two decades now, so, pulling words apart and molding them into new shapes is something I'm very, very good at.)
The worst part is that they're so convinced they're trying to save people's souls, that they can't even see why blatantly lying to those people would push them away.
Advertisers would love to do this too, but they generally aren't allowed to get away with it to that same degree
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@@MasterBlaster220 Oh gee wiz aren’t you full of yourself. FYI local natives lie all the time to get special items that they normally can’t. So easy to trick the naive white man.
People on 2 side both do this while clamming it all the other guy.
&2 its often the truth is a 3rd thing
Always hilarious to see complete lack of self awareness in the scientific community.
After all you must address the evidence as it exists, not substitute your own theories and strawmen, which is superstition, not science
Maybe its Toruk Makto?
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Pterosaurs are quite striking animals. We have them here in the US, but they are very rare. I've never heard of ours behaving aggressively or threatening humans in any way however. I've heard that they still live in Papua New Guinea as well, and that theirs are much larger than ours. What a wonderful world we live in!
maybe some flying dinosaurus hidden in jungle mystery but no more sightinghts of kongamoto maybe that spieces is die nobody saw them long time ago,,,
shoebill or stork or crane but it could be a saddlebill stork with bad eyesight mistaking the boat for a fish (joke)
I think this is the first video of yours I've heard you laugh.
Why doesn’t this happen in England
Because it's a hoax, the natives don't really believe the stuff but it helps with tourism so when some European guy pulls up and makes up some cryptid they just go with it
Hey, hey, hey, don't knock on Creationists, like that!
In seriousness, there're evolutionary Creationists, as well as strict Creationists.
Fuck yea Rodan XD
I really enjoy your videos, but the polar with the bowler in annoying ...
Also you got 666 likes on this video.
sans like a nar cryptid be cas it eat dead man n it black n it pots kpg
When I watch videos describing people seeing unusual things I admit I find them facinating. As a paleontologist I try and keep an open mind, something few of my collegues do. It angers me when so called professionals claim they know something in a hoax, because of the evolutionary record. Who to say someone did not see something they say is prehistoric, I am not going to dismiss it simply because it doesn't seem rational. I wasn't there, and who knows what they saw.
its a bat.
Yeah either that or a stork!
It's Mothra
@@uncannyvalley2350 or rodan
@@dr.polaris6423 or a crane or a flamingo or a snake bird
In all your programs you have no proof!!!!!😮😮😮
I saw a real, giant dinosaur once. I had just met my future wife & went to her house for the first time & out walks her mother. OMFG! I exclaimed. WTF is that? She (it was a female I think) had a hairy back, thick toenails that could cut through hardened steel & exploding sores all over her ass!
slandering a person
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.”
Romans 1:18-23 ESV
I like your channel a lot, but maybe try to contain your obvious spite for religious folk a bit if possible? It comes across as petty and I think the facts themselves are more than enough. Hurling vitriol at the undereducated won't do anything to change their minds.
Nah, religious deserve to be bashed.
@@thescorchingpteranodon7986 Do you say the same about Muslims, Shinto, Judaism, ect.? I doubt it.
Regardless, I firmly say no; religious people don't deserve to be bashed. So long as they aren't hurting anyone they should be allowed their faith, especially if helps to bring them peace in their lives.
@@pbjandahighfive Yes, all religions are a threat, some more than others (look at islam). Stop whining.
@@thescorchingpteranodon7986 You sound like have a total of 12 IQ points.
@@pbjandahighfive Wake me up when I care.
It is a pterodactyl, pteranodon flying aviating reptile archosaur Rhamphorhynchus
You had me as a potential subscriber sir. But your mocking approach is extremely unprofessional here and has turned me away from further viewing. I agree the theory is unfounded, but we must maintain decency. Anything less only underminds any arguments made no matter what the stance taken. Ad hominem make it seem like even the people citing the evidence lack confidence in its sufficiency and it makes the entire enterprise into playground name calling and bickering. We can do better sir, we must do better.
I wanted to watch a cryptid video, only to be treated to anti-Christian bigotry instead. Time to go elsewhere.
Nope just anti-fundamentalist and biblical literalist bigotry.
@@dr.polaris6423 We may not agree on those things, but you do make excellent videos.
@@dr.polaris6423 And racism my English colonialist nobleman. :))
@@MasterBlaster220 what racism?
@@MasterBlaster220 english colonialist nobleman... what the fuck
I was enjoying this video until he got all smug and butthurt about creationism
@Naukumaija Mau-mau I watch the video, didn’t I? Your methods of reasoning and deduction are severely lacking if that’s the conclusion you come to based on this comment
@Naukumaija Mau-mau Again, your claims are based on mere personal conjecture and inference. And your attempts to have a meaningful conversation are pathetic and only serve to reflect you poorly. If anything, I am amused that each reply of mine compels you so strongly to reply in turn as if you hold so tightly to your pride that you hope to somehow put me down or change my mind? Perhaps there is no logical reason other than you enjoy meaningless, idle talk and trying to prop yourself up while discouraging any free thought that diverts from the mainstream way of thinking. It seems like a pretty narrow minded and bigoted approach to things. I’ve seen things from both sides of the argument and have made my choice what to believe. I am just as convinced that there is order, complexity, intelligent design to the universe as others might be so passionately convinced that it is all by random chance and a meaningless existence. Your ardent disbelief is just as much a religion to you that you try to defend. You want to convince me that what I believe is a fairytale while at the same time believing we have come to this moment by mere meaningless chance? It takes greater faith to convert to the religion of disbelief than to simply take a look around and realize the complexity, logic, intelligent design of the universe as well as the moral depravity of man which seeks so strongly to worship self and deny God
@Naukumaija Mau-mau You have chosen your religion and I have chosen mine. You worship self, I worship God. It’s super simple stuff. Nothing arrogant or lacking evidence. You would just rather believe in random chance and illogic and immoral, meaningless existence. You say I am arrogant and yet you insist I must believe your way or I’m wrong? You are bigoted and close-minded
I mean, when even the Vatican denounces young-earth-creationism...
@@manospondylus The Catholic Church has abandoned Scripture long ago and is heavily influenced by Roman paganism, so you don’t really make a very strong point...
Really, you would have to get out of your chair next to a blackboard and go do some investigation.
Young Earth creationists are correct, because the Bible is a true historical document. I don't like the idea that you automatically assume all your listeners would be opposers of the Bible or unbelievers. You'd be surprised to know how many of us believe in God and the Bible. There are many good RUclips videos that explain well why young earth creationism is not such a fanciful idea!
As someone who is studying history I can tell you that the Bible is not regarded as an accurate historical document by any self-respecting historian as there are various actual accounts and archaeological evidence that contradict its claims.
@@manospondylus you obviously haven't studied history as long as I have, nor have bothered to get an unbiased and sincere knowledge of the Bible, its origin and contents. Numerous upstart young historians have been proven wrong, and the Bible correct, as new archaeological evidence became available. The Bible is reliable as a historical document.
@@loksterization The most prominent contradiction is the fact that classic biblical chronology, as laid out by Ussher, dates the global flood to 2349 B.C. However by this time there already existed various historic civilizations on Earth, such as Elam, Sumer, the Minoans and the Old Kingdom of Egypt (the great pyramid of Cheops had already been built around 2560 BC). All of these had written records and calendars and they all lived through this date without any interruption and without making regards about any catastrophic event. If a great flood happened, these people surely didn‘t notice or seem to care.
Neither do the Egyptians have records of ever having Israelite slaves (in fact most of their construction projects were done by free workers) and neither are there historical or archaeological records of something akin to Exodus ever happening, to the point that even prominent rabbis now regard the story as mostly metaphorical.
@@manospondylus you're making a lot of assumptions there with dates and events, I don't have the time now to get into a detailed discussion about that. The Bible also doesn't give the exact dates you mention, you're working off other authors 'assumptions. If you want to find indepth answers to some of your questions, have a look at the Answers in Genesis channel, they have some excellent stuff there. I don't claim to have all the answers or understand how everything fits in, but I know that everything I have investigated so far has just strenthened my faith in the word of God, and the truth and accuracy of the Bible. Another thing you need to question is whether the dates given for certain things like the pyramids are accurate? Why trust some guy's date of a pyramid more than the Bible? That is disingenuous. Also, some pre-flood architecture could still be standing.
@@manospondylus about your questioning of the Israelites in Egypt, you will be in for a few surprises! Check out Answers in Genesis, we have evidence and proof of Moses and the Israelites, and the Exodus. Even to the forum exact dates the Bible implies! I bet you didn't know that! But it's the truth.