Excerpts From Chapter Nine
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Both Americans, before their experience, assumed
universal pterosaur extinction, but the biology
student apparently held it dogmatically. That soldier
was probably so firmly entrenched in the extinction
dogma, so rigidly trained to obey its command, that
he rebelled against his personal experience with a
giant Rhamphorhynchoid [long-tailed] pterosaur. It
was Hodgkinson who accepted the truth of what
both of them experienced.
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Why do some eyewitnesses disbelieve what they
see? First consider what they admit about their
experiences. In a jungle clearing, a soldier declares
that he did not see a pterodactyl; in a desert, it
“had to be a kite or something;” near a front porch,
“it had to be something else.” Each admits
observing something, but each maintains that he
should not have seen that something. The problem
is in a dogmatic belief: that among many species of
pterosaurs that have once lived, not one species
survived extinction.
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