Correa Neto said:
But LAL, it is not working! For the Nth time, the conditions you are using are not valid for the whole habitat of the creature. Therefore the arguments you raise to explain the inexistence of remains (fossil or recent) or sharp footage are not valid.
Listing names of legendary creatures is of little help. Don´t forget the myth interpretation problem.
And what, in your opinion, is the whole habitat of the creature?
The cryptids I mentioned are all hominids. I have no idea if they're related or what evidence there is for them. Did you read my post where I pointed out the "Jersey Devil", as depicted in your post was a real-estate hoax? No comment?
See, here´s another problem, that comes from the way you are basing your reasoning. You are stating that all PNW has the same homogeneous conditions and that all the SR have the same roadless conditions. This is obviously not true. Both areas have places that are more or less population and infrastructure.
"For centuries scientists long scoffed at the concept that a large primate could in fact exist in North America co-existing in the remote wilderness along side an estimated 325 million people in North America for nearly 250 years. The population of both the United States and Canada combined totals 19,602,028 square kilometers. New statistical studies have shown there could be well in excess of 2,000 of these creatures residing in the forests of North America.
At the lowest number, there is perhaps a single Sasquatch per every 162 thousand people or one Bigfoot per 9,801 square kilometers (one hectometer); equivalent to the size of the Florida Everglades. Taken into account that most of our population lives in urban or rural farming communities, few hike or hunt, and even fewer venture out into the forests at night. It doesn't take rocket science to understand how a creature could evade detection. Furthermore it is believed that Bigfoot is a nocturnal animal, often traveling in family groups up to four in dense forests and can reach top running speeds in excess of 40 mph. Take into account this species might perhaps possess the highest rank of intelligence, second only to Homo sapiens, lends additional ammunition as to why it may have been difficult to document such an animal in the past. While traveling in groups Bigfoot can be difficult to find as there maybe only one group per 39,204 square kilometers; the equivalent to finding a needle in many haystacks."
http://www.royalforum.com/article.php?id=46
The usual questions:
(a) Where is the body of the wildman shot in 1925?
I have no idea.
(b) Why the Minesota Icema is just a freak show curiosity? Do you trust in something that has such a deep dark shadow of fraud hanging over it?
The original was replaced by a model. Sanderson and Heuvelmans weren't the only ones who thought the original was real. This is the most likely of Hansen's stories:
http://www.rfthomas.clara.net/papers/hansen.html
I saw the photos in Argosy (1969 was a big year for this stuff). There are things difficult to reconcile with a carny construction, such as the blood that bubbled up from the eye socket and the gas bubbles in the ice from decomposition.
I just finished a lengthy debate on this on BFF. I'll point you to the thread if you want, but I don't want to have to go through it all again.
(c) Myth reinterpretations -actually twisting... The site now claims that satyrs were neanderthals (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cryptozoo/fabuleux/satyres.htm)... So, neanderthals had horns, goat feet and legs? Shades of mapinguari and mokelembembe here.?
The site is wacko, but there's some good information on it, at least where I can read it.
(d) Invoking an immaginary creature to back another one is really not a good methodology. Zero solid evidence for all these supposed hominids.
As you can see, my French is OK.
Good. Mine's pretty bad. At least there may have been a couple of corpses of non-human hominids and a Yeti finger that seems to have disappeared after it was smuggled out of Tibet in Gloria Stewart's lingerie case.
So, all I have to do is to claim to have seen a bigfoot and try not telling I was high or making a joke?
Is that any worse than the scofftics saying it could have been a hoax, therefore it was?
How can you trust in decades-old reports, many -if not most- may as well be just urban, I mean rural, legends? Many have just been repeated by every book or article on bigfeet, no check on the orgin other than a supposed article on a newspaper...
Which is why I tend to stick to the ones I know about almost first hand. They weren't decades old when I first heard about them. Casts age really well. And there are always new reports, some with physical evidence, such as tracks.
Try debunking my "theory". It´ll be an interesting exercise. It will really help you see how weak your arguments are. To defend my "theory" you will I use the same type of "arguments" you use to defend bigfoot as a real creature and as a hominid. And they are really weak.
Okay, I'll give it a whirl.
There should be fossils of transitional forms. There should be roadkill of transitional forms. There should be "nice" pictures of transitional forms.
Yep, those are really weak. Oops! Those are
your arguments.
As for the gorilla´s fear smell, thit nothing compared to an opossum or even a skunk. Hmmmm.... Maybe bigfeet evolved from mustelids! No. My "theory" is correct.
How about a little morphology?
And I suppose you know that nowdays digital cameras made things much easier... Even some years ago, conventional cameras such as the EOS series were great when it come to help people not loosing a snapshot.
Bobby Clarke's camcorder is a good example of how even "easier" can screw things up.
As for the link...
""Well," quips one attendee, referring to the potential demise of such events like the weekly Western Bigfoot Society lunches, "at least we won't have to waste our Tuesday afternoons anymore."
His wife adds, "We'll just move on to Loch Ness."
No more comments needed.
Roy Crowe actually seems quite sane. He spends a lot of time on this. (I met him at a Harry Schumacher Bigfoot Daze in Carson, Wa. Harry was a friend, of sorts, but he was woefully uninformed. I just saw him on Sasquatch Oddessy. He didn't even get the events that led up to the ordinance correct.) Reporters seem to have a tendency to throw in something snide, perhaps so they won't be confused with the "true believers". How do you know the attendee's wife wasn't joking?
So, can you really trust in the results?
You know, since there are lots of experient professionals doing field research on existing species, there´s little need for such requests. The people currently studying (or making photographic stdies) of say, black bears or woves, have the skills needed for providing solide evidence. And they would not miss a 3-m high ape.
They'd have to find one first.
I'm putting my money on Richard Noll. He seems to know what he's doing.
Now, if you excuse me, I have a plane to catch.
Bon voyage.
