Some scholars have theorized that the accuracy of the depiction in this sketch suggests that it
may in fact, be a drawing of a fossil or possibly a faked composite, though the latter is extremely
doubtful as it is far too accurate to be a composite or fabrication. And the visible skin in the
drawing further suggests that was not in fact modeled from a fossil as it also depicts quite
accurate wing features plus ears and an accurately drawn head crest.
The Scaphognathus depicted in his sketch really does look extraordinarily like the classic
interpretation of a Medieval Dragon so familiar in the tales of Knights such as Saint George who
was said to have slain a dragon and rescued the town.
Could many of these tales be actually based in truth? Could such people as St. George have
actually been killers of various Pterosaurs and creatures like the Scaphognathus in the past? There
is a reasonable amount of evidence to suggest that it was a very real possibility.
But how could dinosaurs have actually survived that long, for all those millions of years? And
how could we possibly be so far off the mark with our chronology you ask?
Well it really depends on how you look at things because, though only one real possibility is
taught as fact by Academia, there are actually two quite different schools of thought on the forces
that shape our world the true causes and nature of dramatic geological changes.
Gradualism vs. Cataclysm
The question whether dramatic or earth changing geological change happen slowly over
enormously long periods of time are actually more sudden events is one that is still hotly debated.
Essentially: Are landscapes changed gradually through layers of sedimentary deposits that
slowly cover ancient sites with the dust of ages or are civilizations suddenly swallowed and
landscapes quickly alerted through sudden and violent cataclysmic upheavals?
We know gradual change is in many ways a reality because we have witnessed it. However we
know that cataclysmic upheaval is a reality as well because we have witnessed that too. It could
very well prove to be the case that the earth has been shaped by both of these two forces and that
both schools of thought are in some way correct.
For example: We have seen recent ruins being slowly covered by the dusts of time and we have
witnessed Mount Saint Helens displace an entire hillside and churn up 200 feet of new mountain
in a single day. It’s obvious that some catastrophe caused the mass extinction of the Dinosaurs
and we have learned from Levy-Shoemaker Nine that comets really do hit planets. So we know
cataclysms are quite possible. But do they happen on a global scale?
Do they happen in regular cycles?
There is strong evidence of cataclysmic geological changes happening on the earth quite
frequently. This can be shown simply by the fact that fossils exist. Fossils can only be formed
when sudden changes occur and creatures are quickly covered by silt. This can only happen either
through volcanic eruptions in wet locations, tsunamis, earthquakes or other such violent means. A
creature that just lies down on the ground and dies naturally will never form into a fossil.
As is also the case when dating many non-organic artifacts, the date of 65 million years ago
that is given for the extinction of the dinosaurs is only arrived at through examination of the
sedimentary layers in which the fossils were found. Geologists assume that these many layers of
sediment are deposited gradually over millions of years. But what if many layers were deposited
in close succession through a series of cataclysmic events?
It is very obvious that the landscapes that once existed on earth have gone through some
incredibly dramatic changes even during the time of man but what if vast amounts of sedimentary
layers in which many of these fossils have been located were deposited, not over millions of years
but over thousands?
What if it doesn’t actually take millions of years to create a fossil, but just several thousand? I
mean how does anyone really know for sure? It’s not as if anyone has ever exactly made one to