LOL! How would YOU crack nuts surviving in the woods? Why is cracking nuts with a rock or throwing rocks incompatible with artistic crafting?
Because you started off with a primitive giant chimpanzee at the start of the thread and you ended with a "human" that was braiding hair and leaving art for researchers to look at and see.
Do you not see how ridiculous what you have presented has actually been? To the point where you linked an article about a guy who claimed that the human DNA he found in the forest, where he and other humans were trampling about, was human, so bigfoot must be human.
Not only that, as I commented earlier on, at no time has there been any evidence of "bigfoot" existing, except for what has been published in journals that do not actually exist, or verified by so called scientists who refuse to hand over their "evidence" to unbiased testing facilities.
No they didn't. Bears and possums don't throw rocks at fifty yards. Wild monkeys and sea otters don't live in Oklahoma. And neither bang on trees with sticks. So they explain nothing and only show a deplorable lack of anything to argue on your part.
No. Humans do though.
And that's the thing.
Here you have people who actually make money going out to do this research.
Bigfoot doesn't live in Oklahoma either. For a variety of reasons. It wouldn't survive the winters for one, and something that that mass would starve - because there isn't enough food in the forests of Oklahoma to maintain something that big and which would have a large and varied diet, especially if they are competing with other wildlife - many of which do go and forage in suburbs, while so called bigfoot never has. Because if bigfoot existed, it wouldn't be throwing rocks at huts, it would be rifling through the bins looking for food. There is zero evidence that they are hunting. No animal carcasses or bones. Nothing. Just a pile of nuts that someone claims he found on a rock, therefore, bigfoot!
Not to mention the fact that they would never have survived that long because there are so few of them. If they ever did exist, they would have died out long ago, not only to competition for resources against humans, but also because there would not be enough of them to remain as a viable breeding stock.. They would be inbred and viciously deformed and then die over the thousands of years of humanoid occupation in the US.
And we know this because the only time they would have come across onto the North American continent would have been when humans first made that crossing. And there is no evidence of a giant primate or better yet, groups of giant primates making that crossing. Not one. If archaeologists have been digging and have found evidence of early human habitation, they would have found signs of giant primate creatures.
Think about it, they know all the dinosaurs that existed in North America. And not once, in all of the digging they have done, have they ever found a single bone or tooth fragment that pointed to a giant ape like creature existing in North or South America. Not one. That does not make sense.
We also know that they do not exist because if they did, they would have spread south, into South America, like the early humans spread south. They did not. And there is no reason for them to have not spread south. Spreading south would certainly have provided them with a more varied diet, warmer climate, not to mention less of a bottle neck in competition for food with humans in North America. And they did not.
Dismissing someone's research because they believe Bigfoot exists is absurd. There is absolutely no logical connection between someone who spends so much time searching for this creature and faking their own results. None. Your mere claims that their results are invalid are thus baseless and not even plausible.
There is every reason for them to fake their research. Money for one.
There are millions on the offer for people who can prove bigfoot. You hold these people out like they are heroes. They get the attention they desire and funding as people who believe as you do, donate money to the cause of finding bigfoot.
Others invest their money into the venture.
Startups are famous for setting big, hairy goals. Carmine “Tom” Biscardi wants to catch Sasquatch—and is planning an initial public offering to fund the hunt.
Mr. Biscardi and his partners hope to raise as much as $3 million by selling stock in Bigfoot Project Investments. They plan to spend the money making movies and selling DVDs, but are also budgeting $113,805 a year for expeditions to find the beast. Among the company’s goals, according to its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission: “capture the creature known as Bigfoot.”
Investment advisers caution that this IPO may not be for everyone. For starters, it involves DVDs, a dying technology, said Kathy Boyle, president at Chapin Hill Advisors. Then there is the Sasquatch issue. She reckons only true believers would be interested in such a speculative venture.
“This would be the kind of thing where if you believed in Bigfoot, or you thought there really was a Bigfoot and you actually had some money to burn and wanted to play with this, then go for it,” Ms. Boyle said. A lot of ifs.
It turns out the IPO doesn’t have many fans in the Bigfoot community, either. Purists are chafing at what they see as the crass commercialization of a serious pursuit.
Mr. Biscardi, who has trumpeted a number of Bigfoot sightings and captures that didn’t pan out, is a controversial figure among Bigfoot enthusiasts. In 2008, he held a news conference in Palo Alto, Calif., to detail his examination of what he said was the carcass of a male Bigfoot that checked in at 7 feet 7 inches tall and weighed more than 500 pounds. The Bigfoot, found by two men in Georgia, turned out to be a rubber gorilla costume stuffed with animal parts and outfitted with a set of teeth that may have been bovine in origin.
Another guy is trying to raise nearly half a million dollars through crowd sourcing, to help him hunt for bigfoot. And you question why people would want to fake their research?
Some even get their own show and on that show, they show exactly the level of dishonesty in how they find bigfoot "evidence" or proof of bigfoot:
One obvious example of the team's lack of scientific rigor is how they take take "evidence" that they have gathered from widely separated areas and claim that these unrelated bits of information somehow corroborate and support some other bit of unlikely evidence, a blurry video, for instance.
In one of their superfluous re-creations, the team has Bobo position himself near a stump in order to simulate a supposed "real" Bigfoot video in which Bigfoot steals a candy bar. Using an infrared camera, the team's efforts look exactly like the original video which proves that the figure in that tape must have been man-sized, not Bigfoot-sized.
Undeterred, the team immediately decides that the "Bigfoot" in the original video must have been a baby one. It is obvious that, regardless of their findings, this team is always going see Bigfoot wherever they go. Their theories are unfalsifiable, a sure sign of pseudoscience. Why even do the re-creation if the outcome is already known?
This is the type of so called evidence you have been touting must be bigfoot in this thread and it is absolutely bogus.
Wrong. A quick review of the events of those 4 years taken together immediately eliminates all the animals you have ridiculously suggested were doing it. Here they are again:
"Rock throwing incidents (over 1000)
Wood knocking (sometimes rhythmic, responsive or mimicking)
Metallic noise (use of rocks or hard objects on metallic objects)
Sounds of movement through vegetation and bipedal footfalls
Banging on the structure walls during the night
Footprints
Strong smell (musky, wet horse scent)
Damaged trees (felled dead trees, broken dead or green limbs beyond natural breakage)
Vocalizations (huffs, grunts, whistles, growls, screams and chattering)
Indeterminate hair and blood sample
Signatures from thermal cameras and reports of eyeshine
Brief sightings of reddish brown to black various sized animals
One occasion of physical intrusion into a window"
All of which can be done by people and other animals. Even
bigfoot hunters complained and admitted that.
As I pointed out above, there is big money in bigfoot. And every reason to fake bigfoot.
