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Scientific 'proof' ? (For Total Skeptics)


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I take their opinion...until someone shows me their opinion is wrong.

 

That's what we all do with experts.

 

To me the case has long been made that sasquatch deserves the full-time attention of the scientific mainstream.  That both Krantz and Meldrum made mistakes is irrelevant.  I make it a point never to blame an animal's nonexistence on the people looking for it, Matt and Bobo.

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"I take their opinion...until someone shows me their opinion is wrong."

 

Do Matt Crowley's dermal ridge experiments count?

 

 

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For what?  My opinion of the reality of sasquatch?

 

All that told me is that some Real McCoy tracks may have artifacts of the casting process on them.  Any mistakes any experts made related to that don't change my opinion of the overall evidence.  I tend to prefer forests over trees.

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And Larry, well I do not have proof that "any and all" BF evidence is faked

 

 

 

Then you should not have made the positive claim that all evidence of BF is "fabricated".

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^^ Yes, but there are numerous examples of faked Bigfoot evidence and zero examples of genuine Bigfoot evidence. Ergo, if Bigfoot does not exist, then all BF evidence is the result of human beings. Imaginations, lies or hoaxes. 

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^^ Yes, but there are numerous examples of faked Bigfoot evidence and zero examples of genuine Bigfoot evidence.

 

Numerous examples of faked BF evidence does not relieve you from providing proof that all BF evidence is "fabricated".

 

Yet you've already admitted that you have no proof that all BF evidence is "fabricated".

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Well do you have even one example of Bigfoot evidence that is proven to have been a result of a Bigfoot? No, of course you do not.

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^^ Yes, but there are numerous examples of faked Bigfoot evidence and zero examples of genuine Bigfoot evidence. Ergo, if Bigfoot does not exist, then all BF evidence is the result of human beings. Imaginations, lies or hoaxes. 

Irrelevant, because it simply uses "no proof yet' to mean "not real."  They're not interchangeable terms.

 

Not to mention which the logic is bassackwards.  If Bigfoot does not exist?  You know that?  How?  LarryP's just right on this one and you're just wrong.  You asserted as a fact something for which you can provide no evidence.   Next!

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So all of these purported footprints are proof that sasquatches exist?!

 

Yet no one has a sasquatch foot in possession to test this claim.

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proof?  Who said anything about proof, other than 'bigfoot skeptics' confused about the difference betwen evidence and proof?

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Who said anything about proof? Mulder did:

" Individually maybe not. Taken together it proves that there is a real critter out there needing classification. A mountain can be "proven" by one boulder or a huge pile of pebbles."

Maybe you should have your evidence vs proof lecture with him as it seems it's not only skeptics, in your mind, that confuse the two.

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Who said anything about proof? Mulder did:

" Individually maybe not. Taken together it proves that there is a real critter out there needing classification. A mountain can be "proven" by one boulder or a huge pile of pebbles."

Maybe you should have your evidence vs proof lecture with him as it seems it's not only skeptics, in your mind, that confuse the two.

 

This is really very simple.

 

You made the positive claim that all evidence of BF is fabricated and then admitted that you cannot prove that claim.

 

Therefore your claim was disproven by you.

 

As by your own admission you do not have a deductive argument.

 

This is further evidenced by the fact that while there has been BF evidence which was proven to be fabricated by hoaxers, there is also a plethora of evidence which has never been proven to be fabricated by hoaxers.

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I see both sides confuse the two.  I see skeptics turn a blind eye to evidence, and just as often I see believers claiming evidence (that is lacking) as proof. 

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" This is further evidenced by the fact that while there has been BF evidence which was proven to be fabricated by hoaxers, there is also a plethora of evidence which has never been proven to be fabricated by hoaxers."

Right Larry, nor has it been proven to come from a Bigfoot either. So as time marches on and all we ever have confirmed are more hoaxes, then at some point it is not ridiculous to connect the dots and concede that there is no such beast as Bigfoot, therefore making all the other unconfirmed pieces of evidence either a hoax or a mistake.

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