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"a belief that is held in carefully nurtured ignorance of the alternative is hardly a belief to be taken seriously" -Richard Dawkins I'm not debating shit. I'm stating an opinion based on what I have researched. You are stating an opinion based on preconceived assumptions. Open up your web browser of choice, type in http://www.google.com in the address bar, and search for things like "Bigfoot", "Dermal ridges", "DNA", etc. I don't give a shit if you pull the creationist tactic of claiming there is no evidence for the "theory" of evolution. Honestly. Just sit there all happy and ignorant. Forgive me for preferring to learn more about things that interest me than dragging you along behind me spoon feeding you the fruits of my intellectual labor (I'm studying a fascinating book titled "Understanding Human Evolution" and the studies among mainly various Chimpanzees populations but also some Orangutan populations is fascinating). Just sit there and call it complete shit like a creationist calls evolution shit. I'm not willing to "raise" you like you are my offspring. My point is that until you research the matter, you are DEAD WRONG calling this subject BUNK. You are basing that opinion on what? Ignorance of something you have never studied in any detail? Just passively waiting for someone to drop the evidence in your lap? How lazy. Either A) research it and say that you have a solid opinion or B) say that you have no idea.

Oh yeah. I've seen that. I think there are at least 6 people claiming to have been in the "suit" so far. Anecdotal evidence. Professional Biologists in both America and Russia have studied the footage and could not conclude it a fake. Actually a lot of them called it genuine. Anyways, like I've said it before. You guys are all skeptical. That's awesome. *high five* I'm not going to belabour the point any longer. Believe whatever. I agree that one single video alone would not convince me. That's not all the researchers have. They also have DNA samples of a primate unknown to science. They also have a number of the supposed bigfoot tracks that display characteristic epidermal ridges in them that are unlike any other known primate, etc. There is a TON of fake evidence about Bigfoot I agree. However to dismiss the real evidence because of the fake ones sounds exactly like what the Intelligent Design morons do with the Piltdown man Hoax and all the real evidence about Homo Neanderthalensis, Homo Erectus, Homo Heidelbregensis, etc.

I agree. I looked into the matter with an open mind and after researching it for several months I left feeling rather...well surprised by what I found. I'm not here to convince you. I don't really care what you think about it. I just can't prove to myself that the creatures referred to as Bigfoot are bunk. I've done it with Nessie. I've done it with Chupacabras. And so on, and so on. Practically all of them are baseless bunk except for two of them. Champ and Bigfoot. *shrugs* believe whatever you want. Also about Bigfoot defying the evolutionary process. What? I'm a big fan of the evolutionary process. I'm a human evolution enthusiast. I don't see anything with Bigfoot that defies what science currently understands about evolution. I agree that one single video alone would not convince me. That's not all the researchers have. They also have DNA samples of a primate unknown to science. They also have a number of the supposed bigfoot tracks that display characteristic epidermal ridges in them that are unlike any other known primate, etc. There is a TON of fake evidence about Bigfoot I agree. However to dismiss the real evidence because of the fake ones sounds exactly like what the Intelligent Design morons do with the Piltdown man Hoax and all the real evidence about Homo Neanderthalensis, Homo Erectus, Homo Heidelbregensis, etc. I did. I'm a skeptic. You are wrong about there being "NO EVIDENCE" other than videos. You are ASSUMING there is no other evidence. *shrugs* Believe whatever you want. I was curious enough to look into it on my own. If you don't care enough to do the same that's fine. I really don't care.

There has never been any evidence that the Patterson footage was a fake. Nor can it be reproduced to this day.

Where did I point out eyewitness accounts among my reasons to think bigfoot is real? If my mind worked that way I would still believe in god. I prefer solid evidence.

Video footage that cannot be easily or even professionally dismissed and has never been adequately replicated (despite desperate and repeated attempts to do so), footprints with epidermal ridges unlike any other known primate, DNA evidence that is inconclusive only because we have no proven sample to compare it to (But is known to belong to a primate unknown to science), etc.

I absolutely loved the idea of Nessie when I was younger. However, not only is every bit of "evidence" that has ever been produced to support Nessie has been proven to be a hoax, but Loch Ness has been scoured for anything with nothing turning up, and also you have to consider an actual real animal like that living in the Loch. Obviously if there is a creature that compares to the stereotypical image of what Nessie is suppose to look like we can deduce how much food it would need. We can also take into consideration how many of them there need to be to have a stustainable population of them in the Loch. We'd need at least 30 of them. There's simply not enough food. 1) Every tad of evidence has been proven faked. 2) Intense searches using baiting, underwater cameras, and radar have failed to find anything. 3) Not enough food to support a population of Nessie's. I'm sorry, I can't find a reason to believe. Don't get me wrong, I would love for it to be true. I've even been to Loch Ness and waded it's shorelines. But there's nothing that mysterious there that I can find any evidence for. As for the "Dino's" of the Congo...well all you have are some tribal natives blabbing about seeing something that looks like a dino. That's it. Nothing else. I'm not saying that there is no possible way that there might be something there that is unusual. However, I can find no compelling evidence to even take it seriously enough to keep researching it.

I have to side with Sparky here. I've researched a lot of crypto-animals and I have personally failed to consider any of them likely but two. Bigfoot Champ All others are complete and utter bunk from what I can find. Those two, however, actually do have compelling evidence to back them up. It's easy to dismiss the idea. However if you research them with an open mind you can not simply dismiss them as myths.

No, I do not. I'm in the IT industry. I have spent time studying biology, organic chemistry, microbiology, and evolution extensively though. I tend to focus primarily on human evolution. However, I have no professional qualifications on it at all.

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Hello everyone. I'm from Texas. Huge fan of science. I am heavily influenced by Carl Sagan. My personal most burning passion is the study of human evolution. I don't do it as a living because I want to keep enjoying it. hehe. Anyways, glad to be here with you guys.