Monsters, Fact or Fiction?

In the movie Pirates of the Caribbean; the Black Pearl, Captain Barbosa states, "Here there be monsters." However, do monster really exist? Was there ever a deep dark creature that had the habit of pulling ships under water so that he could make a meal out of the men on board? If we look at the legends of a few hundred years ago that is precisely what people back then believed, you can find sea serpents and all kinds of strange, weird things that people thought were out to get them. Nevertheless, as I said, that was back then, what do people think nowadays?

These days we do not have the firm conviction that there is such a thing as a sea monster, the people before us did, what has made us lose that belief?

Could it be the fact that a certain person came along called Charles Darwin and gave a theory called evolution to the world…he had it all figured out, God did not exist and that means that an accident (in space) is the thing that produced so many different and complex creatures that call earth…home.

Okay so now my ancestor is a monkey I have no purpose in life and all the animals evolved over millions and millions of years, many species becoming extinct in their fight for survival. If everything was created by God then there would not be millions and millions of years, there would be just a couple thousand and the species that do not exist any more became extinct because of a world wide flood (as we read in the Bible).

The millions of years is crucial to the evolutionary theory because that explains how life came about, but what happens when one of these links in the chain, one of these species that has been dead for a couple million years, shows up alive and well in the oceans.

That has happened more then once, take the Coelacanth…this fish was supposedly extinct and also the missing link between one partially evolved fish and its later version, okay scientists finally had proof of evolution, that is until the coelacanth was caught by fishermen in the 1930s…so much for a missing link that has been extinct for a million years.

One of the most famous monsters that we know of is the Lock Ness Monster, people have reported sightings of this thing for centuries, photographs and so on abound with the evidence of Nessi; the thing is though, they have never caught him. Because of this, many scientist believe that he exists only as a figment of people’s imaginations, and because there is no proof, good old’ Nessi does not exists.

At least in that case they have a half reasonable argument "No Real Proof"; but what about the cases where there was proof? Why did they not admit the truth then?

Lets look at the carcass that washed up in Tecoluta Mexico in 1969, get this, it weighed 35 tons, had a serpent-like body that was armor plaited…and it had a ten foot tusk coming out of the middle of its head. Scientist came and did a thorough investigation and came to the conclusion that it was a finback whale, they had it all figured out...the only strange thing about their report was the fact that they did not explain how a finback whale had a ten foot tusk on its head…how could they overlook that?

There are reports of sea monsters being found on the coasts of Australia covered in brownish hair with a huge head and two tusks; this too was proclaimed to be a type of rare whale.

Then there is the rare whale found off the coast of California…scientists could not even agree on this one, some said it was a beaked whale, others said that such an idea was ridiculous; the list just goes on and on of strange monsters that have been found but have not been officially recognized by the scientific community, all you have to do is google sea monsters and you will see what I mean.

So why are they lying to us? Could it be that Evolution is just a joke kept alive by people that do not want to admit to the existence of God? Maybe the Flood is true and the dinosaurs were mostly wiped out by that world wide flood and what people keep on finding are the descendants of the survivors of the Flood.

What if the Bible is true? What if there really is a God that you will have to answer to someday? What will you do then?