The e-news must be slow today...Yahoo has a story about satellite imaging being able to find downed planes or lost hikers in remote areas...so why not look for bigfoot populations and sea monsters. I'm not exactly sure how I feel about cryptozoology. I do think that the mind can play tricks on a person, as the synaptic sparks in the brain try to make sense of shadows and peripheral vision. The mass effect of delusional folklore, superstition and hysteria still tuns rampant through society. I also know that thanks to evolution there seem to be new species, however large or small discovered on a regular basis. Humans even make new breeds or domesticated animals through artifical selection. Just look at all of the funky-less-than-natural dogs that are available for people to sink money in to. I am however skeptical of everything, yet one can have "faith" without having belief in the supernatural, new age, hollistic, paranormal. One can be scientific and natural and still have to take things on what can be termed faith. I have never seen an atom or it's nucleus. I have never stepped foot on the moon but know it is more than just a flat paper disk rising and setting in a pin pricked sky. Due to the lifespan of the human animal, I could never know 100% for sure that the universe over 13 billion years old. However, many respected sources with many scientific models have variably tested and proven these things to be the best of factual knowledge a human can understand. So without the means to actually look for yourself, it could be termed a faith of a sort. However you could also switch the word to trust...which I like better, since it cannot be misconstrued to have and alternate magical meaning. Nothing should be taking on faith, when it cannot be imperically measured, meaning that when science has reached it's boundry, that improbable supernatural answers are the only possible explanation. That cannot be without proof, and the absence of proof does not make it real. The scientific mind can change, can evolve, can adapt to new information.
So now using satellite imaging could it be possible to find fantastical creatures lurking just out of reach of human contact. Will there be dragons found? Unicorns? Merfolk? Bigfeet? A plesiosaur swimming deep in a European lake? Creatures that have evolved or survived through minimal breeding habits? There must be more than one of such creatures. Why else would they be so engrained in folklore? How difficult would an image be to authenticate? I myself can make very convincing bogus images using Adobe Photoshop. Scientists have yet to establish concrete evidence and serious study of such things. Yes there are socities that devote time to searching for cryptozoological animals, but nothing conclusive as of yet. The back-from-extinction coelacanth has somehow survived and remained fairly elusive to humans. Could a missing link between the human ape and the primate ape be sustaining it's population deep in a dense forest somewhere?
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