"Why do people choose the substitute over God himself? Probably the most important reason is that it obviates accountability to God. We can meet idols on our own terms because they are our own creations. They are safe, predictable, and controllable; they are, in Jeremiah's colorful language, the 'scarecrows in a cornfield' (10:5). They are portable and completely under the user's control. They offer nothing like the threat of a God who thunders from Sinai and whose providence in this world so often appears to us to be incomprehensible and dangerous . . . [People] need face only themselves. That is the appeal of idolatry."
- David F. Wells
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Cryptomundo offers up the Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories of 2009.
My fave, of course, is the Champ video.
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2. Jared
- 01/10/2010 6:52 pm CST
Nope, not debunked yet. Every animal common to the area that skeptics have claimed it is has been reasonably discredited by people familiar with the animals. They don't move that slowly or they don't submerge, or they don't have that profile, etc.
It actually resembles the common profile of Champ, which is "horse like" in its neck/head.
4. Jared
- 01/10/2010 7:01 pm CST
I don't know. I think the likelihood of Champ is much greater than that of Nessie, for instance. I would put a "monster" in Loch Ness at like 10. I think Champ maybe 40-55 ???
Although, the echolocation findings are really awesome. That's the best evidence so far. No known creature in Lake Champlain communicates that way. But they recorded something in the Lake communicating that way.
Macy has been reading my "Vermont Monster Guide" book and she's all ready to go with me when it gets warmer up to Burlington and cruise around the Lake with my FlipVideo. :-)
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Man, that Champ video is intriguing. I guess it hasn't been debunked? Didn't someone say they thought it was a Moose?