Bob Rines, a patent lawyer...
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Bob Rines, a patent lawyer from Boston, trained as a physicist and engineer at M.I.T. He himself is the holder of more than 80 patents. Among his inventions is a type of high-definition sonar equipment for which he was inducted into the Inventors' Hall of Fame. A modernized version of another of his inventions guided Patriot missiles during the Gulf War, and has been used to find large underwater objects, such as the Titanic.
Bob has been studying the Loch Ness monster in Scotland since June 23, 1972, when he spotted a large, dark hump, covered with rough, mottled skin, like the back of an elephant, in the 800-foot-deep Loch Ness. Rines and his companions, one of them Wing Commander Basil Cary, estimated the hump to be about 25-feet long. It extended four to six feet out of the water. Using photographic and lighting equipment he has designed, he has since taken four famous photographs: two in 1972, of what appears to be a rhomboid flipper; and two in 1975 -- one that seems to depict, in terrifying close-up, a monstrous head, and one of what looks something like a swimming brontosaurus, shot from beneath. This last picture leads Rines to believe that the Loch Ness monster is a plesiosaur -- an aquatic brontosaurus-type dinosaur. In spite of the fact that the pictures were published in Nature, a well-respected British scientific journal, many people still do not believe the existence of any such monster.
Many people do not believe the biblical record that Jesus has risen from the dead. Thomas, who was absent when Jesus appeared to the disciples on Easter night, refused to believe their eyewitness account that they had seen him alive. Even though he believed a week later when Jesus confronted him face to face, Jesus told him that all are blessed who simply believe his Word, without visual evidence.
Bob has been studying the Loch Ness monster in Scotland since June 23, 1972, when he spotted a large, dark hump, covered with rough, mottled skin, like the back of an elephant, in the 800-foot-deep Loch Ness. Rines and his companions, one of them Wing Commander Basil Cary, estimated the hump to be about 25-feet long. It extended four to six feet out of the water. Using photographic and lighting equipment he has designed, he has since taken four famous photographs: two in 1972, of what appears to be a rhomboid flipper; and two in 1975 -- one that seems to depict, in terrifying close-up, a monstrous head, and one of what looks something like a swimming brontosaurus, shot from beneath. This last picture leads Rines to believe that the Loch Ness monster is a plesiosaur -- an aquatic brontosaurus-type dinosaur. In spite of the fact that the pictures were published in Nature, a well-respected British scientific journal, many people still do not believe the existence of any such monster.
Many people do not believe the biblical record that Jesus has risen from the dead. Thomas, who was absent when Jesus appeared to the disciples on Easter night, refused to believe their eyewitness account that they had seen him alive. Even though he believed a week later when Jesus confronted him face to face, Jesus told him that all are blessed who simply believe his Word, without visual evidence.
