What’s Being Said?

However, Loren is very correct with his skeptacism and wait for the details. An analysis needs to be done of MK’s theory based upon the evidence presented and his academic support from Stanford.

I wonder if MK will account for the variations in Bigfoot reports from the Northwest to the Deep South? Loren is correct about this and his Field Guide does a good job of covering the reported types and differences.

It will quite interesting to read our scientific advisor’s comments once MK has presented his evidence.

My gut feeling based on my own experiences with the species is that MK’s theory is plausible. I’m very curious to see how he accounts for the various anomolies in the Patterson film.

What’s really interesting is the assertion of culture. I wonder how this conclusion came about?

I’ll wait and ante up when the DVD comes out. It will be fun anyway it turns out. My best,

LL

The eyes are made for night vision, as animals have.

Intelligence does not make necessary human origin. Bigfoot likely is above a dolphin in that respect.

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

There are “hairy races” of humans that have been historically reclusive. Could MK be claiming that BF is one of these early races of “hairy humans” that was VERY Hairy and have taken reclusiveness to the extreme?

It would be a relatively new idea, but I don’t see how the Patterson footage would confirm this…unless maybe he has spotted a braid or ornamentation that has been previously overlooked, but I would be surprised. I have to agree that what it smells like is ethically questionable marketing that we seem to be seeing more often lately.

There’s way too much speculation about an old film and some old footprints. And way too little field research.

And waaaay too many announcements!

The problem with crap like this is that it hits the media; that serious scientists raise their heads from the lab table and see it; and that they go, oh THAT stuff again. And they not only ignore it, they laugh at the very idea of being associated with it.

I really think it’s coming to this: those who think that we have a flesh-and-blood animal here, verifiable by the scientific method, need to start loudly dissociating themselves from anything — ANYTHING — that proposes ANYTHING that isn’t scientifically verifiable, or just as bad, a New Way of Seeing stuff that is 40 years old, with no additional data one way or the other since then. In other words, we need to stop fetishizing evidence. Science does not respect that practice.

I have said over and over again that the PG film is NOT grainy or fuzzy. But it certainly cannot support all this “analysis.” Here’s what’s significant about it: it’s no figment of anything. It needs explaining; and it’s had enough analysis to verify THAT.

Now into the field to explain. And turn off the tap over all this hash/rehash/re-rehash. Because it’s all been done before, and pretty much just like this.

Into the field. Verify. THAT’S what we should be doing, MK. Not THIS.

Who knows, he might just trying to get every one’s attention so they will listen to what he has found.

One thing for sure, he has done a lot to help prove the Patterson film isn’t a man in a suit.

So it’s wait and see. Maybe Neanderthal man didn’t die out after all?

Yet in this discussion, we indeed revisit the age-old question, “What is man ???” We thump our chests and quickly answer with a variety of scientific and theological assumptions we so bravely cling to. However, our answers need to examined in every generation.

Only 70 years ago, the Nazis decided that Jews, Slavs and other non-arayans were sub-human and could be elminated. Two hundred years before that, Africans we enslaved because they were considered more simian than human. Finally, the great debate of the discovery of the Americas was whether the Native Americans were human. ( By a narrow vote in the Vatican, they were deemed to be human by a papal decree.)

So is Patty human? Our answer to this question is more than an academic exercise, it will be, when she is discovered, how our culture will be judged.

I believe Loren is right when he says Northwest bigfoots tend to be more human like in the northwest part of the country and more ape like in the southern portion of country where the weather is more tropical. I’m just generalizing a bit so don’t get all crazy, the point being if “patty” was filmed in the south maybe M.K.D. would have come to the conclusion that she was and an ape and not an “out of touch” human.