Wade asks:
What animal, other than man, has a habitat range that stretches across every land area on Earth?
Simple answer. Bigfoot is a man, in the Homo line. Where you find man, you find Bigfoot, with the exception of some islands and some places where they were driven extinct. I think the Bigfoots are just another of the Homo line that evolved, lived and migrated alongside humans. They had some very negative interactions with humans along the way, so they became extremely wary and cryptic. In fact, they hide better than any animal on Earth.
If you’re going to say that Bigfoot is a hominid, then how did it get over here? Did it cross the land bridge? Paddle from Polynesia?
I think that they walked across the land bridge, but I am not certain. That’s one of the Bigfoot things that doesn’t make sense. How did they get to the Americas?
It’s true that we lack fossil evidence for the Bigfoots, but we don’t even know what the hell they even are in the first place, so we don’t even know what we are looking for.
There are so many aspects of this story that simply don’t make sense, but that does not mean it’s not true.
Occam’s Razor: Mainstream science says that everyone who say a Bigfoot is lying, hallucinating, crazy or misidentifying something. The alternate hypothesis is that many of these folks saw an undiscovered animal.
How can we possibly say that all of these people who saw Bigfoots themselves over centuries, along with Native American data describing them as simply another people living in the woods, were wrong? They were all hallucinating, lying, or misidentifying things? Forget it. We have 40,000 documented sightings, some by dozens of people all at once.
In this case, it is mainstream science that fails Occam’s Razor.
Evidence? We have a ton. More footprints than we can count, some going for miles and miles. Hair, scat, and now blood, saliva, tissue and bone. We appear to have found skulls and possibly whole skeletons. We have lots of good photos and plenty of good videos. We have lots of audio recordings that are outside the human range and were not made by known animals.
The mainstream science view is that all of this evidence is garbage. The prints have all been faked or are bear and other footprints. The remains are all of humans or other animals. The photos and videos are all hoaxes or misidentifications. The audios are all known animals.
Occam’s Razor: OR rejects the mainstream science view of the evidence of all faked or misidentification and supports the view that the evidence is of an undiscovered animal.
Bigfoot exists, but it makes no sense. You and the rest of the skeptics are right on the last part. This is why science won’t study it. Science just says “no way,” and throws up a roadblock. Science won’t even begin to investigate it, as it’s in the “impossible” category. So no investigation takes place, so nothing ever gets proven.
Were we artificially engineered from Bigfoot in the past 10,000 years?
“Were we artificially engineered from Bigfoot in the past 10,000 years?”
I don’t know about you, but us whites were created in a lab experiment by the evil Doctor Yakub.
Using a similar Occam’s Razor line of argument, one could argue in favor of the existence of UFOs from outer space, another phenomenon with similarly universal and mass unexplainable sightings.
I don’t think mass hallucination, but mass superstition and mistaken sightings are the most reasonable likely explanation for bigfoot in addition to UFOs, miracles, apparitions, etc.
With Bigfoot we have a ton of other evidence too in addition to just sightings. Videos which are clearly not altered or hoaxed, good photos, hair, scat, footprints, handprints, full body prints, vocalizations.
I think it’s clear that people who see UFO’s are seeing “something.” I myself have seen a UFO, but I don’t have the faintest idea of what I saw. Just the fact that people are seeing these objects doesn’t mean that they are aliens.
If you are going by sightings alone, that’s not so good, I agree. But when you add in all the rest of the evidence, it gets pretty overwhelming.
Also note that Hawaii has no sightings, no tracks, no other evidence. All of the other states have. If people are just making shit up and hallucinating, why wouldn’t Hawaiians be in on it too?
I’m suspicious of all hair and scat samples for the simple fact that, if they were actually a different species of hominid, it would be straightforward to simply perform a DNA test and determine that the sample was from a previously unknown species of hominid. As far as videos go, all are extremely undetailed and, as far as I’m concerned, could pretty easily be out and out hoaxes, either intentional or unintentional. Many people said for years that crop circles were “100% totally unfakable and impossible to generate artificially,” but apparently all of them turned out to be human-produced. Here we have an even simpler process: a guy in an ape suit. Same with handprints and footprints.
I’m not saying that a previously undiscovered hominid 100% does not exist, simply that it is extremely unlikely, and it is much more plausible that the “mass” of evidence is easily explainable through other means and is neither as coherent nor as carefully examined as you make it out to be. Just as with UFO sightings, weather balloons, airplanes, electrical phenomenon and the like are more likely (though not 100% certain) explanations rather than aliens just as other explanations (people, misidentification of other animals, etc.) are more likely for bigfoot sightings and relics.
If bigfoot is actually a relict population of Gigantopithecus it would of course be the most important anthropological discovery of the century.
It does typically come back unknown primate.
Actually, more precisely, lately it always comes back “human.” The skeptics say that all of the hair, scat, etc. that has been found is either contaminated by humans or is actually human remains. I find this dubious.
The hair does not resemble any known mammal that is found in the area where the hair has been gathered. However, it does superficially resemble human hair. However, Bigfoot hair lacks a medulla, and human hair typically has a medulla. Only 6% of human hair lacks a medulla and these are always fair thin haired blonds. So it is not possible to completely differentiate human and Bigfoot hairs at the moment.
Superficial DNA testing of hair, scat, etc. has been done over 100 times and it always comes back “human.” However, more comprehensive DNA tests are being done now, and the results are supposedly coming back not human but in the Homo line. The studies have been completed and the work is out for peer review right now.