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For detailed information on the African Dinosaur please visit this page.

 

      The website www.talkorigins.org has an index of rebuttals to creationists claims. Among the rebuttals are several responses to findings about dinosaurs that might still be living.

http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB930_3.html

Creationist Claim CB930.3:

An apatosaurus-like dinosaur may still be alive in swamps in the Congo.

Response to Creationists By Talkorigins

1. The reputed “dinosaur,” Mokele-mbembe , is folklore. O'Hanlon (1997, 373) reported the answer upon asking a native if he had seen Mokele-mbembe:
"What a stupid question," said Doubla, looking genuinely surprised. . . . "Mokele-mbembe is not an animal like a gorilla or python. And Mokele-mbembe is not a sacred animal. It doesn't appear to people. It is an animal of mystery. It exists because we imagine it. But to see it--never. You don't see it."
Other reports, though some treat Mokele-mbembe as real, are also folkloric; they make good stories, but there is no tangible evidence. It is nigh impossible that a population of very large, very distinctive land animals could have eluded human exploration so completely.

2. A living dinosaur would not be a problem for evolution even if it existed.

Response to Talkorigins By Phillip O’Donnell

1. “The reputed "dinosaur," Mokele-mbembe, is folklore.”

Actually it is and it is not. Natives have many legends about the creature and many other natives claim to have seen the creature for themselves. Something else that Talkorigins fails to tell the reader is that natives have not been the only ones to have seen Mokele-mbembe. The sightings are listed below:

In 1776, a French priest said he saw a number of Mokele-mbembes feeding on plants near the shore of a river in Central Africa and found very large tracks spaced 7 to 8 feet apart with three claws on each one.

While near Lake Tele in 1980, Herman Regusters and his wife saw what they thought to be Mokele-mbembe.

At Lake Tele in 1983, Marcellin Agnaga was on an expedition when he said he saw Mokele-mbembe swimming in the lake

A man named Alan Brignall was working in Northern Zambia in May of 1954 when he saw Mokele-mbembe.

In the 1950’s, a man who wanted to remain anonymous was working in the Congo when he saw a mokele-mbembe’s long neck and head emerge out of the Congo River.

A French man by the name of J. M. Lefebvre said he saw Mokele-mbembe in 1963, while hunting with a friend (Lem Bauer).

A. S. Arrey was housing some British soldiers in 1948 near Lake Barombi in Northern Cameroon. While he and some others were swimming in the lake, something broke through the surface of the water. It was two Mokele-mbembes.

Clearly you can see that Mokele-mbembe is not just on old fable like they claim, but rather a possible living creature.
Next they list a case of a native claiming that Mokele-mbembe is not real. This semi-rare, as some natives are very superstitious about animals. Some even say that Mokele-mbembe is even a god, that does not prove that the creature isn't real!

“It is nigh impossible that a population of very large, very distinctive land animals could have eluded human exploration so completely.”

 

The Likouala Swamp is 55,000 square miles of almost the worst place on earth. Explorers rarely visit the area and it is mostly unexplored. A large animal that hides in the water could easily remain not found. However some explorers claim to have encountered the animal.

“A living dinosaur would not be a problem for evolution even if it existed.”

 

Almost all evolutionary books and videos claim that dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago and the ones that did not die out evolved into birds. Also, according the evolutionary geology that African jungle has changed drastically  since the Cretaceous!

 

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