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Line 1: − In 1977, while serving as Captain on board the fishing vessel Zuiyo-maru, [[Kent Hovind]] discovered the decomposing carcass of a Plesiosaur. This was a triumphant find for the Creation-Science movement, since it unequivocally established that dinosaurs had died in the Biblical Flood, rather than being killed by a meteor, as postulated by [[Charles Darwin]].+ − + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − If a meteor had killed the dinosaurs as Charles Darwin suggested, then the plesiosaurs would have died out as well. But, because a plesiosaur was found in the oceans near Japan, the only viable alternative is that the Biblical account of the Genesis flood was true, and that (on account of Noah's human fallibility) many land based dinosaurs died while the plesiosaur lived on. This also means that the rocks of the late cretaceous period (dated to 65 million years ago by Darwinist geologists) couldn't be more than a few thousand years old.+ − Captain Hovind sailed back to Pensacola at full steam with his triumphant find, fully expecting a Nobel Prize and widespread acclaim for his once-in-a-lifetime discovery. Unfortunately, secularist scientists performed comparisons of the carcass amino acid profile to the amino acid profile of a basking shark, and attempted to smear Hovind's find by using the fact that the two were identical. The comparison of amino acids is by no means conclusive however, since plesiosaurs and sharks both live in water, and we should expect them to have identical amino acid profiles. Furthermore, it may also be possible that the plesiosaur and basking shark are not actually distinct species, but that the plesiosaur is just a basking shark observed in a particular life stage.+ − While it would be instructive to study the carcass further, the Secular Humanists at the Internal Revenue Service confiscated the remains during the arrest of Dr. Hovind, presumably to prevent further investigation in the name of creationism.+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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'''Plesiosaurs''' are large [[reptile]]s characterized by long necks with small heads; stocky, finless tails; and a broad, turtle-like body with four flippered appendages. Based on their morphological design and fossilized feces,<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4341204.stm "Plesiosaur bottom-feeding shown"], BBC</ref> paleontologists infer that they were sea-dwelling carnivores that dined on fish and shellfish.
Their [[fossil]] skeletons were first discovered in early 19th century in England by [[Mary Anning]] and were among the first large vertebrate fossils found. Since then, many more have been found and there are a number of complete specimens.
The name ''plesiosaur'' (or ''plesiosaurus'') comes from the [[Greek language|Greek]] for "near to lizard", and was named by [[William Conybeare]] to signify that it was more lizard-like than the fish-like [[ichthyosaurus]], which was first found only a few years previously nearby.
According to [[evolution]]ary scientists, who use relative dating methods that rely on the [[strata]] fossils are found in, plesiosaurs lived in the [[Jurassic]] period before becoming extinct. According to [[creation]] scientists, who use the [[Bible]], plesiosaurs were created on the fifth day of the [[creation week]]<ref name="tj12.3">[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1854/ "Live plesiosaurs: weighing the evidence"], ''Journal of Creation'' 12(3):339–346, Dec. 1998</ref> and lived concurrently with Man. It is also widely held among creation researchers that the [[leviathan]] mentioned in the Bible<ref>''Job'' 3:8, 41:1; ''Psalm'' 74:14, 104:26; ''Isaiah'' 27:1</ref> was a type of plesiosaur, specifically the ''kronosaurus''.<ref>[http://www.christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/j-site4.html "The Great Dinosaur Mystery], Christian Answers</ref>
Like other aquatic animals, according to the Bible plesiosaurs were not taken aboard the [[Noah's Ark|Ark]] during the [[Great Flood]].<ref>[http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/AnswersBook/fish14.asp "How did freshwater and saltwater fish survive the Flood?"], Answers in Genesis</ref> Because of this, some creation researchers believe that not all of them perished in the Flood and that populations survive to this day,<ref name="tj12.3"/> hidden beneath the icy waters of seas and deep lakes. The most often cited evidences for this theory are the many modern sightings around the globe of creatures that fit the description of a plesiosaur, the most famous of which have been reported at [[Loch Ness]], [[Scotland]] (the so-called "Loch Ness Monster" or "Nessie") and [[Lake Okanagan]] in [[British Columbia]] (known as "Ogopogo").
There was also a reputed plesiosaur carcass<ref name="tj12.3"/> dredged up by the Japanese fishing trawler ''Zuiyo Maru'' near [[New Zealand]] in 1977, but many researchers believe it was the remains of a [[basking shark]].<ref>[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1684/ Letting rotting sharks lie] ''Journal of Creation'' 13(2) 83–87, Nov. 1999.</ref><ref>[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4737 A ‘tail’ of many monsters] ''Journal of Creation'' 19(2) 74–75, Aug. 2005.</ref><ref>[http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4752/ Parkie: a new ‘pseudoplesiosaur’ washed up on the Nova Scotia coast] ''Journal of Creation'' 19(2) 119–118, Aug. 2005.</ref> Close inspection of the original Japanese scientific report reveals unanimous eyewitness testimony that the cryptid had a pair of upper fins. This observation, if not refuted, disproves a shark identification. <ref>[https://creationresearch.org/new-zuiyo-maru-cryptid-observations-strong-indications-marine-tetrapod/"New Zuiyo Maru Cryptid Observations"], Creation Research Society Quarterly, John Goertzen, June 2001, CRSQ Vol 38 No 1 pp 19-29</ref> Malcom Bowden found additional evidence against the shark theory <ref>[http://www.mbowden.info/plsfin13.htm"THE JAPANESE CARCASS: A PLESIOSAUR-TYPE ANIMAL!" Creation Science Movement pamphlet.</ref>
Not one of the Japanese ichthyologists examining the evidence thought the cryptid was a shark. Captain Tanaka and Prof. Yasuda discuss the creature in this clip <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udD8hGuGUeQ</ref>
Dr. Bill Cooper reexamined the evidence of the Zuiyo Maru cryptid in 2017, "The Japanese Plesiosaur Reconsidered by Dr. Bill Cooper at the Seventh European Creationist Conference", refuting the shark theory.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA-PospP6B0</ref> "The Japanese Plesiosaur Reconsidered by Dr. Bill Cooper at the Seventh European Creationist Conference"
==Further Reading==
The Japanese original scientific investigation "Collected Papers on the Carcass of an Unidentified Animal Trawled off New Zealand by the Zuiyo-maru, ed. T SASAKI - La mer, 1978" is available online.<ref>https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/61737787/Collected_papers_on_the_carcass_of_an_unidentified_animal_trawled_off_New_Zealand_by_the_Zuiyo-maru20200110-28269-adbbmh-libre.pdf?1578645756=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DCollected_papers_on_the_carcass_of_an_un.pdf&Expires=1657304528&Signature=RnEDfhJe2t1BfedzhXUNahKp0GWWgM~W-fPGVSEr51SzIVZ77pORc59GTeeld4ZwspomImksEK1igQ0-EgZCtmygLvFd0x9IxNQvUiODcV307uQv~ZssnhBPOX1hHXZD6E2j3vqgezUK5KKjvckV5RNAx0Ho4ug4wad8BQ5rCA7ZJVmCt8hYfs0vagG3up6ZQLzzxY3FJahKP70ospUIXly9Nus9oTePVJK2budlMGQ0vQxgZHPRRpylJ6Ouxygr5GhU-4GaLxRRTmsx5AVnNDtoJQsuQ87iKFf06nAOOegF~mLx0odO9GKeKiJB-qnJiHyNVGZfbE~as3Y3U8udlA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA#page=7</ref>
==References==
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