Ngoubou
The Ngoubou is a possible living dinosaur living in the rainforests of Central Africa. When he visited the Congo rainforests on a November 2000 expedition, the creationist scientist and explorer William Gibbons talked to some native pygmies, whom had lived, there. He asked them about Mokele-mbembe. They then started talking to him about another creature, named the Ngoubou, which they believe exists. Gibbons then showed them numerous pictures of many different types of creatures. The one which they said most closely resembles the Ngoubou was a painting of a Styracosaurus. However, as Gibbons himself noted, there are two main problems with this hypothesis: 1. Styracosaurus, along with all other dinosaurs, is currently believed by evolutionists to have died out more than 65 million years ago, and 2. In addition to that, fossils of Styracosaurus have only been found in North America, while all of the reported sightings of the Ngoubou come from Central Africa.
However, these two rebuttals still don't prove anything; First of all, Young Earth Creationists believe that the Earth is only about 6,000 years old, so the supposed implausibility of a creature surviving unchanged and undetected for over 65 million years is completely eliminated. Second of all, the pygmies never specifically stated that the creature actually belonged to the genus Styracosaurus, itself. They only said that it closely resembled the Styracosaurus. And, besides, we are still discovering new dinosaurs, every year; Just because no fossils of ceratopsians similar to Styracosaurus have been discovered in Africa, so far, doesn't mean that they won't, in the near future. Thus, when you put these two factors together, the existence of the Ngoubou, as well as its identity as being a real, living dinosaur, seems much more plausible, than before, and especially if one adheres to the Young Earth Creationist worldview.
See Also
References:
- Gibbons, William. (2002). In Search of the Congo Dinosaur. [1]
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