Cryptozoologists claim there have been cases where species now accepted by the scientific community were initially considered superstition, hoaxes, delusions or misidentifications.

Cryptozoologists also say the creature is a species of pterosaur such as a dimorphodon.

Cryptozoologists have argued for the existence of sea serpents by claiming that people report seeing similar things, and further arguing that it is possible to classify sightings into different " types ".

Cryptozoologists often identify the mapinguari, a mythical forest creature of the upper Amazon basin, with a surviving tropical ground sloth or folk memory of these animals.

Cryptozoologists also posit that the Thunderbird was associated with storms because they followed the drafts to stay in flight, not unlike the way a modern eagle rides mountain up currents.

Cryptozoologists Paul and Lena Bottriell photographed one during an expedition in 1975.

Animals that are Lazarus taxa are often cited by Cryptozoologists as former Cryptids.

Some New Jersey residents do not consider Central Jersey a region in its own right, but others believe it is a separate geographic and cultural area from the North and South.

Some sources claim Godard didn't trust Hollywood and refused ; Richard Benton claimed that Godard wanted to shoot the film in New Jersey in January and took offense when would-be producer Norah Wright objected that was unreasonable considering the story took place in Texas with its year round warm environment while her partner, Elinor Jones, claimed they did not believe Godard was right for the project in the first place.

At first they believe it to be a joke, but then they notice all the Yoyodyne employees applied for Social Security cards on November 1, 1938 and all in the same town, Grover's Mill, New Jersey.

In a letter to The Cricket, a Newark, New Jersey music magazine edited by Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal, Albert reported that he had seen a strange object in the sky and come to believe that he and his brother " had the right seal of God almighty in our forehead.

Most authorities believe that Morgan was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

Skeptics believe the Jersey Devil to be nothing more than a creative manifestation of the English settlers, Bogeyman stories created and told by bored Pine Barren residents as a form of children's entertainment, and rumors arising from negative perceptions of the local population (" pineys ").

In the past the dish was so ubiquitous that English-speaking visitors, purporting to believe that the people of Jersey ate nothing else, dubbed the inhabitants Jersey beans ( this epithet is sometimes considered derogatory, but a Jersey primary school French coursebook Salut Jersey featured two beans Haricot and Mangetout ).

I answer, every inch of the Delaware Canal, sixteen miles in length, is in the State of New Jersey ; and every inch of the Louisville Canal is in one county ; nay, I believe in one city.

Wells ) of October 30, 1938, which had led some Americans to believe that an invasion of Martians was occurring in New Jersey.

Islamic beliefs also present courage and self-control as a key factor in facing the Devil and in some cases Jihad to a lesser extent ; many believe this because of the courage ( through peace and patience ) the Prophets of the past displayed against people who despised them for their beliefs.

Whether they believe in The Devil or God, they are abdicating reason ," said Peter Gilmore.

Rimsky-Korsakov wrote of these sessions, " Balakirev, who did not believe in God, became a believer in the Devil.

The Devil brought it about that subsequently he came to believe in God too ... he soothsaying ... cast a terror upon him ".

The novel follows up on claims made by David Talbot in The Tale of the Body Thief that God and the Devil are on better terms than most Christians believe.

* 75 % Reported to believe in the Devil, 9 % have doubts and 15 % do not believe in the Devil.

Jean-Baptiste Morin ( 1583 – 1656 ) did not believe that Frisius ' method for calculating longitude would work, remarking, " I do not know if the Devil will succeed in making a longitude timekeeper but it is folly for man to try.

The film The Devil ’ s Gift is very similar to " The Monkey ," leading some to believe that the filmmakers plagiarized the story.

Soames, before being taken to Hell by the Devil, scornfully requests that Beerbohm at least try and make people believe that he, Soames, actually existed.

Little Billy doesn't believe his mother, and the Devil whispers to Little Billy that the monsters don't exist, and there is a plethora of luscious wild strawberries in the forest.

Even Barton could not quite believe it.

At first Matilda could not believe her own eyes.

Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.

`` Does any sane Democrat believe that Mr. Hearst, a person unknown even to his constituency and his colleagues, without a word or act in the public life of his country, past or present, that can be shown to be his to commend him, could by any possibility be elected President of the United States??

Only a native New Yorker could believe that New York is now or ever was a literary center.

The Providence Daily Post's editor wrote that he could not believe that a meeting honoring Brown was to be held in Providence.

I have been loath to believe that any nation, even our present enemies, could or would be willing to loose upon mankind such terrible and inhumane weapons.

As the first collective confrontation of the Nazi outrage, the Trial of Eichmann represents a recovery of the Jews from the shock of the death camps, a recovery that took fifteen years and which is still by no means complete ( though let no one believe that it could be hastened by silence ).

With the lower dealer inventories and the stepped-up demand some manufacturers believe there could be shortages of some implements.

U. S. willingness to accept a neutral Laos may have led Premier Khrushchev to believe that other areas could be `` neutralized '' on Soviet terms.

He could hardly believe he was getting in.

I could hardly believe such good luck was mine.

But he was so taken aback, he could not believe any rage of his would make her give in.

Her statement was a hope, not a truth in which they could believe.

Enraged, Apollo indeed gifted her with the ability to know the future, with a curse that she could only see the future tragedies and that no one would ever believe her.

He argues that because a child's suffering is so horrible and cannot easily be ex-plained, it forces people into a crucial test of faith: either we must believe everything or we must deny everything, and who, Paneloux asks, could bear to do the latter?

The citizens are slow to realize the magnitude of the danger because they do not believe in pestilence or that it could happen to them, just as the French were complacent at the beginning of the war.

An astonished Oval crowd fell silent, struggling to believe that England could possibly have lost to a colony.

People with arachnophobia tend to feel uneasy in any area they believe could harbor spiders or that has visible signs of their presence, such as webs.

Within this worldview, it was reasonable to believe that astrology could be used to predict the probable future of a human being.

He continues his challenge, arguing that there is no reason to believe it is God who gives authority to moral laws – it could be given by the consent of humanity, for example.

No official lists of ANAC numbers are published as telephone companies believe overuse of these numbers could make them more likely to be busy when needed by installers.

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

A small minority believe that it is evidence for the existence of ancient Assyrian telescopes, which could explain the great accuracy of Assyrian astronomy.

The Minḥat Ḳenaot is instructive reading for the historian because it throws much light upon the deeper problems which agitated Judaism, the question of the relation of religion to the philosophy of the age, which neither the zeal of the fanatic nor the bold attitude of the liberal-minded could solve in any fixed dogmatic form or by any anathema, as the independent spirit of the congregations refused to accord to the rabbis the power possessed by the Church of dictating to the people what they should believe or respect.