Living Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs
The bravery of Peter Beach deserves attention. For a biologist to travel to a remote swamp in central Africa, a swamp that he believes
is inhabited by a large dinosaur (Mokele-mbembe), requires bravery. But this particular biology professor also supports research under
the assumption that pterosaurs too are still alive.
Beach, a Biblical creationist, wrote the foreword for the book "Searching
for Ropens," (by Jonathan Whitcomb), perhaps the first book written specifically about reports of living pterosaurs in Papua
New Guinea and Australia.
Here is an excerpt from the book's foreword:
"No well-educated, intelligent persons doubts .
. . living Coelacanths, Nautiloids, and Komodo Dragons. We believe in their existence because there is indisputable evidence
that they exist. Is it so hard to believe that even rarer examples of God's creation still exist? That is Jonathan's quest:
to find
and videotape an icon of the "age of dinosaurs," a living pterodactyl."
Professor Beach has also participated in the investigations
of the apparent
bioluminescence of cryptids suspected of being living pterosaurs.
All in all, he has
demonstrated bravery in pursuing cryptozoology in a way that seems to invite ridicule from those who have no patience with ideas supporting
literal interpretations of the Old Testament of the Bible.
A Brave Biologist
By Nathaniel Coleman