Product Description
Expanded second edition: An American flight instructor, an Australian psychologist, many natives on tropical islands, an Australian couple, a Baptist minister, a teenaged farm-boy--each saw a giant living pterosaur. Each was amazed, or terrified, or shocked by a brown or dark-colored featherless creature: long-tailed and with a wingspan as great as fifty feet. Why have many Western scientists been wrong about universal extinctions? Read how standard models of macro-evolution have actually caused the problem, indoctrinating millions into believing that pterosaurs are extinct and ancient. They live now.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 14 reviews)

Seeking truth with eyes open? Read this book!

I can hardly put this book down. It is quite astonishing to read of creatures so large that they can lift a human up into the air or rob a corpse from a new grave. They even glow at night with bioluminescence.
It is understandable how eyewitness are somtimes reluctant to tell their stories because of ridicule they experience - fueled by Western evolutionary superstition. How sad we in the west are so blinded by wrong assumptions fed to us by the 'scientific' mainstream.
This book is so refreshing. Jonathan Whitcomb is to be congratulated for giving us a glimpse of our world denied us by the wildlife 'experts' from western countries.
April 05, 2008

mysteries Magazine review

Ropens are large flying creatures that resemble giant bats or prehistoric pterosaurs, as reported by various witnesses from Papua, New Guinea. Searching for Ropens is the true story of one man's adventure searching for these unusual creatures.

Author Jonathan Whitcomb makes no bones about approaching his subject from the viewpoint of a born-again Christian, filled with contempt for what he calls G.T.E. (General Theory of Evolution). But?Searching for Ropens is no mere Biblical screed, railing against the march of Darwinism. It is a strange and sobering fact that some of cryptozoology's best-known spokesmen are "young Earth" creationists, devoted to the principle that our world is barely 6,000 years old. They search for living dinosaurs and other oddities of nature in the wild as much to validate their faith as to reveal new species, forcing us to wonder--does the searcher's motives matter if legitimate discoveries result?

In this case, no surviving pterosaurs are captured on film or in the flesh, but the point must be that Whitcomb tried. While so-called mainstream scientists lounge in their offices and mock, he traveled halfway around the world at no small risk and personal expense, to see what might be found.

Readers of a scientific mind may find much to criticize in Whitcomb's philosophy, but he still deserves kudos for trying.?And to date, this is the best book to have been published on this intriguing subject.
Mysteries Magazine
October 28, 2007

Pretty much disappointed

I like to read books on cryptids but this one is not one that I recommend. I give it 2 stars. The book seems more like a book trying to convince you of creationism over evolution. I'm not saying this is wrong but just not what I was looking for. It does have some interesting eye witness acounts, that's about all I can say good about it. I got about three quarters of the way through it until I stopped reading it and that took some work. Just couldn't keep interested.

July 20, 2007

Unnecessary religious screed

One thing about books on Cryptozoology is that no two cryptozoologists agree on very much. And that's fine, indeed, helpful, in its way; it keeps things dynamic. But living pterosaurs as proof of Creationism? I have difficulty imagining a good case being made for such an idea, and this book sure ain't it. As with most all Creationism, you have to start off believing in Jesus, and if you don't happen to, well, there's nothing in the theory for you. Science certainly has its dogmas, and that's bad, but how replacing them with other dogmas is supposed to fix anything, I've no idea. Not recommended to anyone who isn't already a creationist.
April 27, 2007

On the Hunt for Dragons...

This short book is an easy read and details the trip and research of Whitcomb -a creationist- into the elusive Ropens (pterodactyls) of Pauapa New Guiniea. It is a real life dragon tale; I found the story very intriguing, inspiring and thought provoking.

As a creationist finding a living dinosaur is an awe inspiring possibility and going on a hunt for one in a strange large, far from home, for the glory of God; country and scientific advancement, besides fame and fortune is an exciting (and foolish?) possibility. Don't be surprised are if you find yourself thinking a little more adventurously after reading the book which seems to end a little too soon.

Ultimately where we came from is based on faith; either faith in God or Evolution. Evolutionists will likely not enjoy this book as they will be troubled by Whitcomb's Creationist World view.
The author hosts several web pages: www.ropens.com/ and [...]
March 23, 2007

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