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September 11, 2013November 7, 2017

“Searching for Ropens” – Transition to Third Edition

Whitcomb's nonfiction "Searching for Ropens and Finding God" 3rd ed.

UPDATE

The fourth edition is better than the third, being updated: Searching for Ropens and Finding God.

ORIGINAL POST:

I will soon give the order to stop printing the second edition of Searching for Ropens (SFR-2). The expanded third edition should be available before the Christmas rush [correction: by about Feb-2014], and I don’t want to pay the fee to continue printing the second edition. I just purchased two copies of SFR-2 for myself and advise cryptozoology book collectors to also purchase the second edition soon, before it is unavailable except in used condition.

The first edition (SFR-1) is now rare; I know of only about four online sources, all foreign, and none of them deal in American dollars. I believe the first edition price would be in the $30-$70 range, if they did accept American dollars but that could easily go much higher in the future. If you own a copy of the first edition, and you want to sell it, I advise not letting it go for less than US $70 at this time.

Many of the photographs in SFR-2 will not be used in the third edition, although the newer one will have additional eyewitness sighting reports. In other words, the third edition will not just be a simple addition or simple expansion: It will be improved but will not contain everything that was in the second edition.

Examples of Photos in Second Edition of Book

One of the Umboi Island eyewitnesses of the glowing ropen is Eunice, wife of a school teacher, who saw the glowing red tail of the flying creature that came from the sea during a funeral gathering near the northwest coast of Umboi. She was interviewed by Carl Baugh.

Another eyewitness of the grave robbing ropen is an old man who was just a boy when a ropen flew down to a grave and stole the human body that had recently been buried. He was interviewed by missionary Jim Blume.

Their stories will remain in the third edition but not their photographs.

Page 20: photos in the second edition of Searching for Ropens

Title Page (as of mid-December of 2013) of third edition of the book (SFR)

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Searching for Ropens and Finding God — the older third edition

The newer fourth edition of Searching for Ropens and Finding God

Rhamphorhynchoid Pterosaur Alive

The strange creature flew gracefully over the highway, right in front of the car Susan Wooten was driving to Florence, South Carolina. Other drivers stopped their cars on the side of the road (in the general area of Bishopville)

Searching for Ropens (nonfiction book)

February 7, 2010December 8, 2011

No Pterosaur Time Travel

At least one reader of my first book, Searching for Ropens, misunderstood my comment about the idea that ancient pterosaurs, sometimes, get caught in a time hole and appear briefly in our modern world. I never believed in anything like that; it smells of superstition.

I mentioned that idea in my book to show how dogmatically some persons hold onto the idea that pterosaurs lived only many millions of years ago, even imagining time-traveling pterosaurs (to keep ancient extinctions alive.) How much more reasonable to simply believe in modern living animals!

February 3, 2010May 24, 2014

Third Edition of Searching for Ropens

small pile of books: "Searching for Ropens and Finding God" by Jonathan Whitcomb

A true-life adventure in cryptozoology–that focus, in the third edition of the non-fiction book Searching for Ropens, will replace the creationist emphasis in previous editions. (A new book will cover religious and philosophical perspectives regarding living pterosaurs.) Traditional book publishing requires clear genre positioning, and the first two editions of SFR (published-on-demand) were mixed, emphasizing both adventure and religion.

The religious perspectives of the explorers will not be hidden in the new edition, for their searches for living pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea were inspired by their beliefs. The content of the revision, however, will not be used as a preaching podium to convince readers to become creationists.

The new clarity of genre should increase sales of the book greatly, bringing the news of living-pterosaur investigations to much more of the general public. The publisher should be determined later in 2010.

[Note: Searching for Ropens and Finding God was published in April of 2014. The content was, indeed, less like trying to convince non-creationists to believe in a young earth and more like trying to convince everyone to communicate better and to listen to those with different origin philosophies. This third edition is also much larger than any other nonfiction book ever written about modern living pterosaurs, AKA flying dragons or pterodactyls.]

Not all scientists are convinced that all species of pterosaurs must have become extinct long ago. One professor, Steven Watters, is an eyewitness himself. He saw the featherless long-tailed flying creature in Crestview, Florida, at 11:45 a.m., on November 14, 2012, and reported the encounter to Jonathan Whitcomb. In addition, Peter Beach, a biology professor, has searched for bioluminescent pterosaurs that may be flying regularly over a river in Washington state.