“. . .way too much accurate information to be made up”

We live on the same plane of reality (at least it sometimes appears that way) with beings like this.

And the sasquatch, if, like me, you think scientifically.

Steve
Bigfoot Bookman
Bigfoot Books, Willow Creek

Unbelievable!!

Once again, the perils of insufficient research and jumping to premature conclusions. Budding cryptos, take note!

Except for the fact that Steven Streufert of Bigfoot’s bLog posted this…

Playful indeed. You go, man! Sometimes the fringes of a science need to get scorched back…and the core of the science needs to make a measured response to the nonsense emanating from the fringe. Physics seems to handle this OK; so does astronomy. Zoology needs to work on it; and crypto is a good place.

Ulysses: you say that

…things like this sometimes make us lose heart. Is it true that Bigfoot is and urban legend, a myth a lost or incorrect interpretation by Native America of an actual animal such as a bear or even a forest hermit? As with all things, faith plays a role for those who have never witnessed…

Well, I’ve never witnessed…OK, a couple really weird pieces of possible evidence but never seen one …and faith plays no role with me. Why lose heart over something like this? Shouldn’t it be obvious to anyone what this is? I’m gonna keep saying this: the only truly fun way to look at this topic is THE SCIENTIFIC WAY. Belief has no more place here than it did in the confirmation of black holes. True Believers get tossed all over the place on the random waves of faith. They never look at the evidence, which would be really handy in helping them sort things out. The scientific thinkers note the vast volume of corroborating evidence, and put stuff like this in its proper place. We can even recognize it for the fun it is. We’re comfortable that evidence seems to point to reality, and that science historically takes a really long time to come around sometimes, and that B-movie tabloid baggage is making Bigfoot take longer. That’s all.

I really doubt the Native Americans screwed up. It’s us Anglo-Euros who did that. We came here with our Wildman-myths from Europe; we knew those didn’t describe real animals, so we ‘knew’ the Natives weren’t describing them either. We ‘knew’ they were doing their own Wildman thing; or worse yet, we labeled them simpletons who couldn’t tell fact from fancy. Because we ‘knew.’ Well? Sometimes knowledge isn’t.

This kind of stuff does, size 13, have the unfortunate tendency to put research back. That is mainly because, when outside of their narrow scientific fields of specialty, scientists all too often become The Rest Of Us, and lose their ability to focus on – or even know to ask for – the evidence. They read this stuff; chuckle scoff or whatever; and go back to quasars…never having bothered themselves with the evidence that there may be more than a grain of truth behind the Dodges of crypto. This is their prerogative; but they should try to engage the scientist in them at least enough to recognize that in trying to sound like an expert when one is out of his or her depth, one is doing no one any favors.

Loren wants to turn people on to crypto and make them think. And once more he’s put up a blog that had me going oh-brother…and then thinking a bit. Bravo. So may we all. Because thought will pull crypto out of the true-belief mire and into the light of science.

At least so I think; and isn’t that my prerogative?

I also think that far too much attention has been given as to what it is not and bogus information on the subject such as a bogus story like this is given “air time”.