Description

Thunderbird, 2017, is a literary fiction for 9 -14-year-olds. It is based on an historical oral retelling about an encounter with a large flying creature, owning the description of a Pteranodon, passed down through many generations of Sioux.
Three young Lakota braves see themselves as saviors of their band; food is running very low; spring is late and many in the village are starving. Tatanka, (bison) have not yet returned to the plains from wintering in the south. Armed with more fool-hardy vision, than honed skill, the braves leave after dark to search for the illusive herd. After several moons scouting for bison, having endured threatening situations, they find themselves in the Badlands far to the west. There, they encounter a large, winged predator, bigger than anything they had ever seen before. All their hopes for survival seem thwarted. If they die, who will hear their story?
What if this oral story wasn’t fiction? What if it was fact? What if the Earth is younger than the millions of years?
We are currently indoctrinated to accept as a fact that the Earth is 4.45 billion years old. Why? Because most scientists agree, yet reasoning behind their consensus are rarely revealed. A growing number of geologists and biologists are pausing to question evolution, and man’s place with dinosaurs. What are we to make of recent finds of soft tissue and proteins in T-rex and Hadrosaur remains? The scientists who made the discoveries reacted to their findings by denying their research rather than question their worldview that their specimens were over 65 million years old. Of course, it must be born in mind that to question evolution is to destroy one’s career as a research scientist.
It has been said that history becomes legend and legend becomes myth. According to Herodotus in 425BC this process takes 80 years. What if there is indeed truth behind the legends worldwide about dragons and men co-existing?