The coelacanths disappeared with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.  However, the world was shocked when a live one was caught in the ocean not too long ago.  Several have been caught since then, all in recent decades.  Were they really there all along?  Or have our dead ancestors come back to life in the depths of the watery abyss?  If so, who or what might have preserved their DNA for so long?

     There is also the ammonoid family Goniatitidae, which evolutionists call a "typical Lazarus taxon," because like many life forms, it disappeared from the fossil record for millions of years, only to reappear much later, as if Jesus had resurrected it from the grave like he did Lazarus in the gospel story.[1] [2]  Another example of a Lazarus taxon is the arthropod Naraoia, which went extinct at the end of the Ordovician, but came back after 20 million years at the end of the Silurian.[3]  Some other very strange things were happening at the end of the Ordovician and Silurian.

     In the latter half of the Cretaceous, from the Kyzyl Kum desert of central Asia, there comes the first shrew, who was called Cretasorex.[4] This animal was apparently way ahead of its time, for it looks like a shrew, and even has a coronoid process like a shrew, but it lived long before shrews existed.  Shrews first arrived about 45 million years ago in the fossil record, although some hypothesize that they might extend further back to the Wasatchian some 55-50 million years ago.[5]  Cretasorex is at least 20 to 30 million years older, as the Kyzl Kum desert produces fossils of mid to mid-late Cretaceous age.  Its remains are extraordinarily well preserved, which theoretically should leave little doubt of its identity, yet its date is so far outside the timeframe expected for shrews that paleontologists are reluctant to classify it as a shrew.  The gap between Cretasorex in the Cretaceous and the arrival of shrews in the Eocene suggests extinction and reintroduction.  Perhaps the body plan of the shrew was an experiment which the gods developed and immediately scrapped, but then decided to re-introduce at a later time.  For the naturalist, who believes re-evolution of extinct forms to be extremely unlikely, Cretasorex remains something of an anomaly.

     Outside of mainstream science, several legends exist of long-dead animals which are allegedly still subsiding.  Both the Lapps of northern Europe and the Eskimos of North America espouse that there exists a large animal with tusks which approximates the description of the wooly mammoth.  There is also the matter of the Nandi Bear in Africa – a legendary beast whose description sounds a lot like the chalicotheres of the Miocene.  The chalicotheres, as discussed previously, were large herbivores with the head and teeth of a horse, the claws of a sloth, and the knuckle-walking capabilities of a gorilla. 

     Even more bizarre are stories from Greco-Roman antiquity which speak of humans that crossbred with animals and produced hominid creatures who, although they understand human speech, could only bark and chirp like dogs and birds, and these have claws, fangs, tails, and heads like dogs.[6]

     Kongamato is allegedly a modern pterosaur that resides deep within the remote recesses of Africa.  The problem is, pterosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago with the dinosaurs.  Kongamato has wings with no feathers, and instead of a toothless beak as birds have, Kongamato has teeth in its beak.  Therefore, trying to identity it as a bird is problematic.  When asked, the natives replied, "It isn't a bird really; it is more like a lizard with wings like a bat."[7]  When the natives were shown a picture of a pterosaur, "every native present immediately and unhesitatingly picked it out and identified it as Kongamato."[8]  Could the gods have preserved pterosaur DNA on ice, then cloned them millions of years later?  There are at least four witnesses that testified for the real existence of Kongamato – an explorer, a missionary, an employee of the British Museum, and the natives themselves.[9]

     Cadborosaurus, or Caddy for short, is a 60 foot long serpent-like animal that lives in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia.  It has flippers, a tail, hair, and a camel-like head.  Its hair perhaps indicates that it is a mammal, such as an early whale.  It is described as having saw-like teeth, which is also consistent with the dentition of very early whales.  But modern whales do not have bodies with hair, nor are they serpent-like, nor do they have a head like a camel.  However, early whales might have.  Are ancient species being brought back from the dead?  Mackal records that there are actually three such species off the Pacific coast of Canada.  One has large eyes, a camel's head, long neck, and a fur coat.  A second is like the first, but with small eyes, horns, or a mane.  The third is a serpent-like form with a sheep's head, dorsal fin, and small eyes – a kind of snake in sheep's clothing.  They are all good swimmers.[10]  Horns, camel's heads, and sheep's heads all are traits of the lineage artiodactyla.  The artiodactyls are genetically very similar to whales and some think the artiodactyls are the ancestors of whales.

     And of course, how could we forget the Loch Ness Monster.  It and Champ resemble plesiosaurs, which were giant marine reptiles that went extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.  Evidently, somebody is busy cloning monsters of antiquity.

          But the best documented case in all cryptozoology is the Beast of Gevaudan.  It stands in its own class.  As Brockis states,

 

Compared with other monster mysteries she was unique, leaving graves, witnessed parish records, and archives of official documents, many of them included in this book, proving her real and guilty beyond doubt.[11] 

 

     The Beast of Gevaudan terrorized the French countryside from 1764 to 1767.  Pourcher published numerous unfiltered firsthand accounts, which testify convincingly to the beast’s real existence and strange characteristics.  Based on these firsthand accounts, we know today that the Beast of Gevaudan resembled a mesonychid, that is, a prehistoric predator known from 60 million year old fossils.

Read more about the evidence for intelligent life before humans.

The creationist narrative in Genesis 1 is contradicted by many ancient Christian texts.  Instead of an Almighty Creator God, ancient Christian texts espouse that the universe is born from blind arrogance and stupidity.  The angels caused evolution to occur from species to species.  There are many gods, (or aliens?), and the Christian God is just one among them.  Satan the Devil writes scripture, and thus the Bible was polluted with Genesis 1.  Archaeology and modern scholarship demonstrate that Genesis is indeed corrupted.  Cavemen walk with Adam and Eve.  Esoteric prophecies reveal the coming of Christ, and also reveal the dark forces that govern the cosmos.  Such are the ancient Christian writings.

Science vindicates the truth of these ideas.  Evolution often happens too fast for Darwin’s theory.  Gaps in the fossil record indicate that some kind of unnatural force acts together with natural selection.  Astrobiology reveals that intelligent life probably evolved long before us.  The fossil record reveals strange clues that aliens abducted species and transported them across oceans, and that DNA from diverse lineages was combined to spawn hybrid species.  Evidently, aliens influence evolution, and they are the gods of the world’s religions. 

This is not fiction.  All these facts are thoroughly documented in the links above.

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