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Occam's Razor in regard to Bigfoot/Sasquatch
Many Bigfoot/Sasquatch skeptics think those of us who believe in the existence of Bigfoot/Sasquatch, don't understand Occam's Razor. On the contrary, we understand it. We just think the existence of Bigfoot IS the simplest explanation for all the reports of sightings and circumstantial evidence found over the past 1,000 years. According to John Green's book "Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us" Reports of Bigfoot/Sasquatch throwing rocks & sticks at people, date back to 1849, but it wasn't a known behavior of Great Apes until the 1960s I think the chances of people making up a behavior for a mythical ape that turned out to be a real behavior of real apes over 100 years later, are EXTREMELY small. As for my own sighting in 1997 in West Virginia, what I saw was walking on two legs, with broad shoulders and was completely black. Broad shoulders of course eliminates all quadrupeds, so we're left with two possibilities. 1) A person in a costume, trying to trick people or 2) A Bigfoot. Nobody knew I was going to be in that location. I didn't even know. It wasn't the original location I was Turkey hunting in that morning and I didn't report the sighting and to this day, nearly 26 years later, I know of no reports of Bigfoot sightings in that area. Someone trying to trick people, would've kept doing it until they got some attention
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How common are river creature myths in folklores of different cultures?
It has been determined that there isn't enough food in Loch Ness to support a breeding population of Plesiosaur type creatures, but what if they occasionally enter the lake via a submarine cavern, maybe for breeding/egg laying? I think "Nessi" sightings could be a combination of this and Eel sightings. I saw a video on YouTube of a boat on Loch Ness with what was obviously a large Eel swimming along side of it. I would estimate it to be approximately 10' (3 meters) long
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Occam's Razor in regard to Bigfoot/Sasquatch
For any scientists who are skeptics of Bigfoot. It's not that we don't understand Occam's Razor. We just disagree on what is more likely. Bigfoot exists or every single report in the past 200+ years is either a hoax or misidentification. Take into consideration that reports of Bigfoot throwing things at people, dates back to at least 1849, but it wasn't a known behavior of apes until the 1960s
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The Official "Introduce Yourself" Thread
Thank you
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The Official "Introduce Yourself" Thread
Hi, I just joined this forum in hopes of finding more open minds here than at the last science forum I belonged to:-)