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Originally Posted by Erniedytn
Well...looking at the "evidence" I have I would say that there is definatley something out there; what that is well...  |
I'm so glad you put evidence in quotes because there is zero evidence for bigfoots (or is that bigfeet?). I say this because the only evidence available (crappy films/video/recordings, eyewitnesses, foot print casts, and hair that for some unidentified reason can not be tested) could have been made by other means. Same goes for UFOs, ghosts, etc... Once again - extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (Sagan).
And while there are occasionally new species of large creatures "discovered" they are usually known - just never recorded or observed by science (the giant squid comes to mind).
People tend to believe whatever they are interested in is the cause of "strange" occurrences. If you are interested in ghosts then ghosts are what caused the weird noises at night. If you are interested in aliens, every odd light in the sky is the mother-ship. If you are interested in God, then your headache goes away because you prayed.
This is not evidence it is anecdote and probably the worse thing to rest your faith.
The most famous piece of evidence for bigfoot is an admitted hoax and your first reaction is the guy who says it is a hoax is hoaxing that it was a hoax? yikes! i think you've summed up the conspiracy theory frame of mind rather well there. So why not turn that around and say - oh the only real bit of evidence that could have forced science to look at the bigfoot question again is the DNA found in the hair and that is the only bit of evidence that didn't work out right? Hmmmm. Sounds like the aliens are conspiring with the TV show to keep proof of bigfoot from reaching us!
I know we go round and round about this stuff so i'm pretty sure you won't be offended by what i wrote but just in case i will add: please don't construe any of the above as a personal attack.
and one final thought .... science doesn't "prove" negatives. Another words, science will never, ever prove bigfoot doesn't exist. But the onus isn't on them, it is on the people who claim they exist to prove it.