Sasquatch, Bigfoot (evolution, creation, hell)

[painted wolf]

I like to look at evidence.

I love cryptids, and many of them may be genuine... but many of them aren't. Or are good as pieces of modern mythology.
Humans love mystery and bigfoot fills a psycological need, like Nessy.

wa:do

[Charity]

Actually guys, before I started acting silly with you, (Sorry got company in the mean time) I was going to say that years ago there was suppose to be a Hairy type creature (besides some of you guys here on the forum) Any way this whatever it was suppose to be was located somewhere in the area of Fouke, Arkansas. I don't know if they still claim that or not. I believe I saw it on a tv program based on folklore and legends

[Tau]

Originally Posted by misanthropic_clown

If you look on wikipedia, the "unidentified hair" reports were eventually found to be bear hairs
Yeti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thats peculiar because initially it was tested because it did not resemble Bear hair which was the primary theory...

Still if you believe everything Wikipaedia says...

[Tau]

But don't worry I wont be making any more posts that don't conform to the conservative standards that obviously are upheld with vigour here.

I will retain an open mind on all matters, you lot can do what the hell you like, like burger king....Have It Your Way.

[Tau]

Originally Posted by painted wolf

I like to look at evidence.

I love cryptids, and many of them may be genuine... but many of them aren't. Or are good as pieces of modern mythology.
Humans love mystery and bigfoot fills a psycological need, like Nessy.

wa:do

I consider human witness accounts to be evidence, not necessarily empirical perhaps, maybe I have misplaced faith in this respect but regardless I will accept on face value what I am told, especially if it is consistant with other statements eleswhere.

[Halcyon]

Originally Posted by Tau

But don't worry I wont be making any more posts that don't conform to the conservative standards that obviously are upheld with vigour here.

I will retain an open mind on all matters, you lot can do what the hell you like, like burger king....Have It Your Way.

I'm with you man.

I'm skeptical, so I won't believe any old tale, but at the same time I like to think I have an open mind. I believe bigfoot has a basis in reality, but then I also think mermaids do too (hence my stubborn adherance to AAH painted wolf ).

[Tau]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

I'm with you man.

I'm skeptical, so I won't believe any old tale, but at the same time I like to think I have an open mind. I believe bigfoot has a basis in reality, but then I also think mermaids do too (hence my stubborn adherance to AAH painted wolf ).

It was supposed to be a hypothetical question anyway Halycon, I didn't want to get into a debate on the existance of Yeti/Bigfoot, and said so, but as usual people have to take the oppurtunity to make a joke out of the issue at hand, namely the origin of humanity.
I am a serious scientist, a chemist primarily, but my interests lie with planetary geology and the infant science of xeno biology, so I have to keep an open mind, to a point obviously.

Mermaids eh?

Well it would not be the first time a land mammal has returned to the oceans eh?

[Halcyon]

I'm a scientist too, but not a serious one. I think if you take science too seriously, like if you take religion too seriously, you're gonna develop a complex.

So, I like to support fringe theories where I can, like the AAH even though conventional wisdom is against it. When everybody believes in and thus researches exactly the same thing, science gets stagnant, we need the imaginative thinkers as well as the boffins.

All IMHO of course

[Tau]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

I'm a scientist too, but not a serious one. I think if you take science too seriously, like if you take religion too seriously, you're gonna develop a complex.

So, I like to support fringe theories where I can, like the AAH even though conventional wisdom is against it. When everybody believes in and thus researches exactly the same thing, science gets stagnant, we need the imaginative thinkers as well as the boffins.

All IMHO of course

Imagination is the key to invention, without it we would still be lumping each other over the head with heavy rocks and worshipping fire.

[misanthropic_clown]

I'd say more cognition than imagination