... a line of long-surviving plesiosaurs that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in ... it was brought to the world’s attention in 1933. Evidence of its existence is anecdotal, with minimal and much-disputed photographic material and sonar readings. The scientific community regards the Loch Ness Monster as a modern-day myth, and ...

Whimsical: A group of Scottish scientists recently went looking for the Loch Ness monster. Not-so-whimsical: They found no trace of Nessie. Instead they found evidence of...old people. In the form of golf balls. Thousands of them. The balls came from a nearby driving range popular among tourists. So clearly this is fodder for another, even sadder, ...

... . The scale of the dilemma was underlined recently in Scotland, where scientists -- who scoured the watery depths in a submarine hoping to discover evidence of the prehistoric Loch Ness monster -- were surprised to find hundreds of thousands of golf balls lining the bed of the loch. It is thought tourists and locals have used the loch as an alternative ...

... "probably-no-God" position, depending on how strong you think the evidence is. The existence of suffering in the world, for example, convinces many, but not all, that there is not a beneficent God. Okay. Coyne ... "convincing evidence"? Sure, it is easy enough to search Loch Ness for empiric evidence of a giant reptile ... after all, we have experience of reptiles and lakes and ...

... 8217;s sickly, greenish-yellow hue is visible evidence of a deadly 1986 eruption of carbon dioxide that ... to peat in the surrounding soil) have contributed to the legend of the Loch Ness Monster. Some say that what has occasionally appeared to be a prehistoric plesiosaur is merely the occasional sunken log floating to the loch’s surface but we know better, don’t we? (image via: Modern ...

... several tantalizing photographs, and—alas—no evidence sufficient to convince the scientific community. Mainstream biology ... nor slithering monstrosity of any kind, in the murky depths of Loch Ness. If you’re picturing Rines as a ranting buffoon ... scientific community felt (and feels) there’s no plesiosaur in Loch Ness; but Rines had seen the damn thing with his own eyes, ...