20/11/2008

It takes a lot to shift me from my six o’clock session of the national news, but by chance when I turned on the television it was tuned to Discovery Channel. What I saw caused me to linger about half an hour. It was a documentary on the Sasquatch, the controversial primate said to be roaming free in North America, particularly in the Pacific North West.

With a little research I noted that the program had been made and aired in 2003, so it was a repeat, of course, like such a lot of television, but I had missed the item for five years.

Five years! Well, I didn’t feel the lack, but what I saw of the documentary was impressive.

Instead of repeating a lot of facts that you can read yourself here, I’ll cut to the chase.

The huge number of sightings, with the quality of the evidence—fur, skin-pattern footprints, the rock throwing, the strange calls, and even the photographs—should make a lot more scientists sit up and take serious notice. If fact, for a moment I thought that was what the documentary was going to show. What it did show was a couple of skeptics and another group of convinced believers, some of whom were, indeed, men of science.

Appealing also to Native American art, they observed that what the artists had draw and carved were representations of what really did exist, and could still exist. Many peoples have similarly shown dragons in their artwork, and I personally believe that they were showing what really did exist, and may still exist.

What I noticed about the skeptics was that they were locked into their evolutionary paradigm. One commented to the effect that it would be far too much to believe that some primate should reverse down the evolutionary tree to produce the Sasquatch. I had to laugh. I think it is even harder to believe in evolution.

One of the believers said it requires a certain humility to accept that a primate yet undiscovered and not catalogued in the various natural history museums exists. As I have observed them, evolutionists are anything but humble. Masquerading as open minded, they are actually closed to new evidence that disagrees with their paradigm, in this case Sasquatch evidence.

As one who is interested in dinosaurs, I have some sympathy with cryptozoologists, those who study hidden or unknown animals. The Sasquatch is not a dinosaur, but I know where the researchers are coming from and the difficulties they face in being taken seriously, all because of the dictates of evolution. I say, “More power to their tribe.”

Footnote: if you want some pictures of a stegosaurus in Asian carvings look here and here.