Whoooooo, Jon, that iffy word "Believes" in "Dale Drinnon Believes he has identified The Real Dragons!"
THAT is a loaded word and one I have taken pains to explain many times before. One should not say a scientist "Believes" a hypothesis in the same way a religious person "Believes" a certain doctrine-if the scientist is doing that, he's doing it wrong.
In this case what is more nearly correct is "Dale Drinnon presents a new hypothesis which conveniently accounts for several prior categories of Cryptids and combines them into a larger but consistent package, and which includes reports of creatures commonly called 'Dragons' in several parts of the range"
Which also identifies the same creatures as the 'Dragons' (Tenninim) of the Bible, BTW.
I, for one, would love to learn more about those Roman accounts you mention and "historical record extant of their existence in Sumatra during the 16th century". Moreover, I would love to see what you describe as "from the rock art I have seen in photos, these Tyrannosaurs are only huge and heavily-built monitor lizards rearing up"
In quoting Heuvelmans, Heuvelmans is of course the source. Heuvelmans mentioned the Roman accounts and the "Historical accounts from Sumatra", and those are quotes from his checklist (He mentions the matter in In The Wake of The Sea-Serpents and promises to explain further in a sequel about Freshwater monsters, but that sequel was never written)
As to the pictures of the rock art-alas, I have no scanner and nobody seems willing to provide me with one. But it is fairly simple, the rock-art pictures from australia merely show monito lizards oriented vertically alongside some much smaller human figures.
Whoooooo, Jon, that iffy word "Believes" in "Dale Drinnon Believes he has identified The Real Dragons!"
ReplyDeleteTHAT is a loaded word and one I have taken pains to explain many times before. One should not say a scientist "Believes" a hypothesis in the same way a religious person "Believes" a certain doctrine-if the scientist is doing that, he's doing it wrong.
In this case what is more nearly correct is "Dale Drinnon presents a new hypothesis which conveniently accounts for several prior categories of Cryptids and combines them into a larger but consistent package, and which includes reports of creatures commonly called 'Dragons' in several parts of the range"
Which also identifies the same creatures as the 'Dragons' (Tenninim) of the Bible, BTW.
I, for one, would love to learn more about those Roman accounts you mention and "historical record extant of their existence in Sumatra during the 16th century". Moreover, I would love to see what you describe as "from the rock art I have seen in photos, these Tyrannosaurs are only huge and heavily-built monitor lizards rearing up"
ReplyDeleteIn quoting Heuvelmans, Heuvelmans is of course the source. Heuvelmans mentioned the Roman accounts and the "Historical accounts from Sumatra", and those are quotes from his checklist (He mentions the matter in In The Wake of The Sea-Serpents and promises to explain further in a sequel about Freshwater monsters, but that sequel was never written)
ReplyDeleteAs to the pictures of the rock art-alas, I have no scanner and nobody seems willing to provide me with one. But it is fairly simple, the rock-art pictures from australia merely show monito lizards oriented vertically alongside some much smaller human figures.
Best Wishes, Dale D.