THE CREATURE IN THE NILE MOSAIC OF PALESTRINA _______________ The Mosaic was originally in Palestrina, Italy as part of an ancient floor mosaic. It dates to 100 B.C. and it depicts life in Ptolemaic Egypt during the flooding of the Nile River. Along the landscape there can be seen a variety of animals that were common to the Nile at that time and their corresponding Greek name. There is one animal that is curiously strange in its appearance and name. The label is translated from the Greek as “crocodile leopard” and it is located on the right middle portion of the mosaic. It does not resemble any known animal living in the region at that time and as the name suggests it is an animal that resembles a crocodile but with distinctive features setting it apart. This remains a fascinating possible crypid animal captured within the mosaics tiles that has strong resemblance to the Eotitanosuchus dinosaur. _______________ #grownostr #plebchain #nostr #science #dinosaurs #cyptid If you find value in my notes, please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always great too!

MARCO POLO’S DINOSAUR HUNTERS _______________ Marco Polo wrote in "The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian" his account of his long journey to China. The book was written after his return to Venice in 1295. He wrote about creatures in the land of Karazan that do not fit the description of any known living creature. They were described as: "[H]uge serpents, ten paces in length, and ten spans in the girt of the body. At the fore part, near the head, they have two short legs, having three claws like those of a tiger, with eyes larger than a fourpenny loaf and very glaring. The jaws are wide enough to swallow a man, the teeth are large and sharp, and their whole appearance is so formidable, that neither man, nor any kind of animal, can approach them without terror." He then told of the hunters that take the creatures as prey and later eat them: "Those whose employment it is to hunt them observe the track by which they are most frequently accustomed to go, and fix into the ground several pieces of wood, armed with sharp iron spikes, which they cover with the sand in such a manner as not to be perceptible. When therefore the animals make their way towards the places they usually haunt, they are wounded by these instruments, and speedily killed.” "..The flesh also of the animal is sold at a dear rate, being thought to have a higher flavour than other kinds of meat, and by all persons it is esteemed a delicacy.” _______________ #grownostr #plebchain #history #dinosaurs #cyptid If you find value in my notes, please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always great too!

“Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.” ~ G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy #grownostr #plebchain #apologetics #quotes #God

SCIENCE IS POINTING TO GOD _______________ Speaking about the growing evidence that the universe had a Creator, Robert Jastrow the founding director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies wrote this in his book “God and the Astronomers”. “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.” ~ Robert Jastrow _______________ If you find value in my notes, please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always great too! #grownostr #plebchain #God #philosophy #quotes

THE BUTTERFLY PARADOX OF EVOLUTION _______________ As children, most of us become familiar with the life cycle of the butterfly. We learn that the butterfly starts out life as an egg laid by an adult. The egg hatches and a larval caterpillar is born. The caterpillar feeds and grows until it sheds its skin and starts the pupal stage of its life. In this stage the larva undergoes radical changes to its body. The legs, wings, and the body of an adult butterfly are formed and after a certain amount of time it emerges. Here lies the paradox, the life cycle of the butterfly is only perpetuated by the adult mating and then laying its eggs. Consequently, the larva is not the same body configuration as the adult and cannot reproduce. It is separated from the reproductive phase of its life by a massive rearranging of its body in the pupal stage. How does this rearranging of major body parts happen in an evolutionary paradigm, where changes happen with individual random mutations in DNA? For the life cycle of the butterfly to exist in evolutionary terms the first larva of the species must make the transition to adult in one clean mutational jump. The pupal stage requires the DNA information to be clear and contain the many changes to form into an adult… to then reproduce. If this process was due to a series of singular random mutations, a vast amount would be detrimental to the larva and would kill it. How does this change happen via singular random mutations of DNA? This seems to be an all or nothing conundrum. _______________ If you find value in my notes and articles please like, boost or follow! Zaps are always appreciated! #grownostr #nostr #plebchain #apologetics #evolution