Are Dinosaurs Still Living?

           By Phillip O'Donnell

      If man has lived with dinosaurs, then you might ask, “Why aren’t they still living today?” According to ancient records they did not all die out, but many were killed by humans (who wants to live next to a T-Rex!) and Noah’s Flood which happened approximately 4,400 years ago. Noah’s Flood was a global event and all the dinosaurs that were not in Noah’s Ark, got buried under tons of rock and sediment in just a few weeks. Many people, mostly evolutionists, are attacking even the very idea of dinosaurs still living today. The book “Eyewitness Dinosaur” says that, “A common misbelief is that dinosaurs were sea monsters, possibly still lurking in the oceans depths.” However, just because scientists don’t think dinosaurs are still around (because of their beliefs) does not alter the fact there are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dinosaur reports in the last 300 years. Most people that have seen them, never tell anyone for fear that people will think they are silly and foolish.

     Evolutionary scientists had claimed that the fish called Coelacanth had evolved legs and went on land to become a land creature some 70 million years ago and was thus non-existent today. However, in 1938, it was found they were dead wrong. A Coelacanth was discovered alive and well in the South African Coast by fishermen. It was recently discovered that if the fish is brought near the surface of the water, it will soon die. If someone had gone there and seen the Coelacanth, but not taken any photographs, the scientists would say they were just false findings. Later, scientists found out that fishermen had been catching those fish for years!

     Evolutionists state that because dinosaur fossils are not found in the same rocks that human and mammal fossils are found in, it proves that the dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. They believe the layers formed over millions of years. The Bible says there was a world wide flood that directly resulted in multiple layers being formed. Noah’s Flood is the only way to explain how fish fossils have been found with undigested fossilized fish left inside them. How trillions of creatures became fossilized (fossilization is rare), and how fossilized clams were found in the closed position (which proves they were buried alive). During the flood most dinosaurs sank to the bottom, while the birds and lighter animals stayed near the surface of the mud and water. As the mud dried and turned into stone, the creatures were fossilized and others were turned into coal in just a short number of years, not millions of years. If dinosaurs are still living today, then that would even further prove the Geologic Column to be false.

     As we will learn in the rest of the book, not only are there some dinosaurs still living in the dark jungles of Africa, but there are many others scattered across the globe on land, air, and sea. Many people who scoff at living dinosaurs contend that sightings alone do not prove the existence of dinosaurs today. It is true, there is no definite proof they are still living, but there are over 20,000 reported sightings of dinosaurs in this century alone. There are also thousands of other sightings that people have never told anyone about. “Scores, perhaps hundreds, of trustworthy mariners… have seen what they believe to be such a creature, but they refuse to publish any account of their observations, knowing that they will be insulted and publicly gibbeted as fools and liars if they do.”

W. Matheu Williams, Circa 1884 (The Great new England Sea Serpent by J. P. O’Neill copyright 1999).

     If you were in a court of law and had 20,000 witnesses on your side, then you would have a very strong case. Of course, there are some hoaxes and misidentifications in all that have been reported. Let’s just say that 10% (2,000) are hoaxes of the 20,000, this would still leave us with 18,000 valid reports. Here are some sightings that have been reported by very legitimate and truthful people:  Col. Percy Fawcett, Captain Geog Von Forstner, Captain Werner Lowisch, Carl and Mary Bombay, Pastor Eugene P. Thomas, Pastor Joseph Ellis, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexander the Great, Saint Columbia, Arlene Gaal, Herman Regusters, Duane Hodgkinson,  Ivan T. Sanderson, Dennis J. Hall, trained naturalists Michael J. Nicoll and E. G. Meade-Waldo, Captain Peter M’Quhae and his crew, and the list goes on.

Ask yourself, does the following sighting resemble a sea-going dinosaur?

 “On July 30 1915, our U28  torpedoed  the  British  steamer  Iberian,  carrying  a  rich   cargo   in   the North  Atlantic.  The   steamer   sank   quickly,  the bow sticking almost  vertically  in  the   air.  When it had gone for  about  twenty-five  seconds,  there was a  violent  explosion. A little  later,  pieces  of the  wreckage,  and  among  them  a  gigantic  sea animal, withering and struggling wildly, was  shot out of the water to a height of 60  to 100  feet…  It was about 60 feet long,  was  like  a  crocodile  in shape, and had four limbs with  powerful  webbed feet, and a long tail tapering to a point.”

Georg Von Forstner, Captain of the German

submarine, U28 in World War I.

(Dinosaurs by Design, by Duane T. Gish)      

Is Captain Forstner’s sighting definite proof? No. It is not proof because he did not bring back physical evidence. However, why would a German Captain lie about seeing a sea monster? The answer is that he was probably not lying! For example, the giant squid or octopus living in the ocean was thought by many to be an old sailor’s myth. In 1896, a 12,000 pound octopus was found on the beach in Saint Augustine, Florida.  It has been estimated to be over 200 feet in length!

    Some people will never  admit that dinosaurs are still living even if someone took a very clear photo or film of it. One such photo was taken by Sandy  Mansi in 1977, in Lake Champlain, Vermont. It looks very much like a Plesiosaur or Nothosaur (a long-necked, sea going dinosaur). Does the scientific community accept this as proof that dinosaurs are still living? No! In the book “The Great New England Sea Serp-ent” it says the following about the photo, “it has been analyzed by experts, who concluded that the photo had not been tampered with and is probably of a living creature, but just what they cannot say.”

     Roy Chapman Andrews (a famous zoologist for discovering fossilized dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Dessert) wrote the following in 1938:

“For some reason everyone wants to believe that somewhere in the ocean depths there are strange creatures, survivors of  the Age  of  Reptiles,  still  living… Arguments are of no avail… There is not a  shred  of  evidence to show that any of the great sea monsters of the Age of the Reptiles still exist. No one could  ask  for a better sea serpent  than the  thirty-foot  mosasaur, but unfortunately  it   has  been  extinct  for  about  eighty million years…  [T]heir  fossilized  bones  are  never  found above the beds of the upper Cretaceous age.”

Does he know that for a fact? Or is it something that he chooses to believe in? Is it possible their fossils have not been found with mammals because the layers were built up in Noah’s Flood? If you believe in the theory of evolution then you would have to believe that some dinosaurs are not still living.