TD-40 Posted April 25, 2013 Posted April 25, 2013 Under what circumstance will the world finally believe in their existence? I am proposing a few and would like your ideas as well... Hunters will shoot one, giving us a body Video or photographic proof that is indisputable One will be captured somehow and brought in for captivity A skull, teeth, or other bones will be found and scientifically accepted A decomposing carcass is found and positively identified I can't think of any other circumstances that would prove their existence other than these. Can you think of any circumstances that could happen that might make the world believe in their existence? What would it take for you?
southernyahoo Posted April 25, 2013 Posted April 25, 2013 A skull, teeth or bones might not do it without DNA. A clear close video of a bigfoot depositing a sample, then video of collection with subsequent DNA analysis would probably be my choice way of proving they exist sans any hope of finding a carcass , because I think they are genus homo, which brings in a different element of ethics and humane treatment.
dmaker Posted April 25, 2013 Posted April 25, 2013 Any one of those would work for me TD-40. In the absence of such an event, I will remain skeptical (and unmoved by the current body of evidence) to the claim that Bigfoot actually exists.
Guest Posted April 25, 2013 Posted April 25, 2013 All but the photography one. As legit as it may seem to believers, skeptics will never view photographic evidence as being legit.
Guest Posted April 25, 2013 Posted April 25, 2013 It's gonna take a body. Just like it does for every other new species.
Guest Posted April 25, 2013 Posted April 25, 2013 (edited) It sounds horrific but I believe quite plausible - that a natural disaster (or man made) such as an earthquake, forest fire etc could force a population pocket out of their habitat or a body discovered as a result of this. I'm sure we've all heard the Mt. StHelens eruption rumours. Will this be the way their existence is confirmed? I wouldnt put all my eggs in this basket but nature ultimately holds all the cards. Edited April 25, 2013 by kezra
Guest Posted April 25, 2013 Posted April 25, 2013 It'll take a body - whether we get that from a hunter, a logging truck hits one, aforementioned natural disaster - somehow we need to have enough of a body to be observed by scientists and matched with DNA. Anything short of that will always be too highly scrutinized.
MIB Posted April 26, 2013 Moderator Posted April 26, 2013 (edited) Even a body will be doubted. There will be a number of people who assume even a purported body is just a more elaborate hoax. I think UNIVERSAL acceptance will require "proof" plus a few generations for it to sink in. For me to accept ... already done. I've seen what I needed to see, heard what I needed to hear, experienced what I needed to experience. I'm past what to me is now a silly thing, proof, now I'm looking to UNDERSTAND what I KNOW. MIB Edited April 26, 2013 by MIB
Guest Posted April 26, 2013 Posted April 26, 2013 Well how ever it's going to be done it's not going to be done by freezer boy.....
Guest Posted April 26, 2013 Posted April 26, 2013 Hunters will shoot one, giving us a body I agree, but I discourage hunters from actually attempting it. If what they fire at is not a Bigfoot than what are they firing at? Usually eyewitness reports that misidentify a Bigfoot witness a bear, repeated insistence that it wasn't a bear aside. And if it wasn't some woodland creature? Maybe a person hoaxing a Bigfoot. Can you imagine trying that defense at a murder trial? Video or photographic proof that is indisputable I disagree, because its too easy to fake convincing video and photographs in this day and age with photoshop and a whole host of cheap and powerful editing software. One will be captured somehow and brought in for captivity [*]A skull, teeth, or other bones will be found and scientifically accepted [*]A decomposing carcass is found and positively identified All of these are interrelated and I agree that these are some of the only ways that the Bigfoot's existence being accepted as fact, especially by the scientific community.
Guest Posted April 26, 2013 Posted April 26, 2013 (edited) How will bigfoot be proven to exist? With our luck - after how many thousands of hours amongst hundreds of researchers and habituators trying to get evidence... it would be ironic if it's because of a peanut allergy from a jar of Jiff peanut butter or something like that from a habituation scenario! If it HAS to happen, I actually hope for an accidental death or an elder who comes to a habituator to die or something like that. But I am really changing my mind about WANTING them to be proven. I personally would very much like to know exactly what they are proven by DNA but I am more and more of a mind that the world in general AND THE BIGFOOTS are better off being what they are today - a myth, a story, a cryptozoological creature and a real creature known only to the few who seek it and research it and who really, really want to know. I don't see how proving they are real will be good for them or for most humans. Perhaps ignorance IS bliss in this instance. Edited April 26, 2013 by madison5716
Midnight Owl Posted April 28, 2013 Posted April 28, 2013 After my first visual sighting, I wanted to tell and prove to everyone they existed because I saw one. I quickly learned that was a mistake by the way I was treated afterward. This also happens with folks producing photos, videos, recordings etc. I feel there are people (Our government in particular) who already have a body, but for whatever reasons, keep it under wraps. I am not a conspiracy junky, but I do feel this Holy Grail of proof has already been discovered and may not ever be presented to the general public. Just my feelings and opinion and would love to be proven wrong....
Guest Posted May 1, 2013 Posted May 1, 2013 Here's what I think: At some point in the future, whether it be through a type specimen, or other form of observation, a species of primate will be classified. The cultural response will be: "It turns out there's no such thing as Bigfoot. There's just a species of Ape living in North America, and that's what everyone has been seeing all these years, and thinking it was a Bigfoot."
Doc Holliday Posted May 2, 2013 Posted May 2, 2013 re: the op ..how? imo, by a stroke of luck, if ever. too many distractions in BFery to gain much traction. so my $ is on some little granny in a 66 Bonneville plowing into one on the way home from bingo night.
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