How can Biologists believe in the ToE?

oh, how i would love for mokele mbembe to be real. probably more than these lake monsters. mokele mbembe has been the one idea that REALLY intrigues me. a large sauropod species alive and well in the congo? how freaking cool would that be?every few years, someone pops up and cites the lake tele sauropod. and i go madly hunting for evidence. sadly, i can not find nearly as much about mokele as i can about nessie. and nessie is more popular -- i can almost promise you that i've seen every nessie picture in existence. mokele... it harder. the congo isn't really a tourist destination. i'm not even sure any serious pictures claiming to be of mokele mbembe exist.

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actually, i do. sort of. the lower end of sauropod size, especially considering the pygmies produced by geographical separation, is about the size of automobile. what's the largest animal to go unnoticed in the heart of africa? so far, the mountain gorilla. it's not a HUGE stretch to pygmy sauropods and exaggerated reports.i really, really, really want to believe in mkele mbembe, as you can probably tell. do i think it exists? no. but wouldn't it be freakin' cool?i say it doesn't exist because the reports are all bad. all of them. for starters, sauropods don't live in jungles. it's just a bad idea, they'd get stuck between the trees. sauropods are like elephants, only twenty or thirty times the size. they're designed for big open plains and sparse trees. they evolved to reach the tops of gigantic conifers, and their teeth are built for stripping pine needles. they evolved that way out of necessity, in a dry jurassic period. that's not jungle material.the idea of it being associated with a lake -- commonly seen in it -- is also a bad sign. why? well, years ago we thought sauropods were too heavy to stand on their own, and would have lived in water. we're talking another case of natives describing or depicting out-dated children's coloring books, not a real animal. the least we could do is show these people jurassic park or something. actually, that'd be the one thing the congo wouldn't lack, is lots of vegetation. now, the dung situation might attract more attention. amusement at the expense of others. Edited by arachnophilia, : No reason given.Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

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we plugged through part of this list once. they're counting people with bachelors degrees who homeschool their children, and people with degrees in other genres that do not pertain to life or earth sciences (such as dembski). i think you'll find that the actual biologist and geologist and paleontologist content of that list is much smaller than they represent.

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