“For a number of reasons, the inclusion of the sasquatch as a subject of cryptozoology may be inappropriate. It is suggested that the dismissal of the sasquatch to this category has more to do with unawareness of evidence for its existence as a North American mammal than the absence of such evidence. In addition, it is suggested that both the long available and recent evidence supporting the existence of the sasquatch has been ignored or misinterpreted. Foremost among the reasons for this resistance are the implications that the sasquatch, if extant, challenges prevailing knowledge. This “knowledge” portrays the sasquatch as mythical, an imaginary or paranormal being, a misidentified bear, or merely a hoax. The unwillingness of relevant scientists to objectively scrutinize the long available evidence appears to be based on uncritical acceptance of prevailing knowledge resulting in the treatment of the sasquatch as a scientifically taboo subject. It is suggested that this treatment (or mistreatment), a subject of increasing interest, will itself become a subject of enquiry in the discipline of philosophy of science. “
— John Bindernagel
To be or not to be, a cryptid…that is what we have to decide. I understand what he is saying, if we believers ourselves still consider him a cryptid, why would the scientific community believe otherwise, why believe our evidence if we don’t? We post things out there like, “the truth is out there”.
But, is it out there to prove? Don’t we already know. We have all this evidence, but most of us don’t really trust it, we feel we too need to see one. But that may never happen. You could go your entire life without ever seeing one, you have to be able to believe with the evidence at hand.
Maybe we need to drop believe from our vocabulary. Saying believe keeps him in that mythical mind set. We need to be confident and say “he exists” whether or not we’ve seen him for ourselves just like everything else we know exists but haven’t seen face to face for ourselves. We need more papers on the subject to get published, we need to have more research symposiums, not only conventions, that bring forth all the new evidence and research techniques to the table.
Sasquatch is currently as famous as a rockstar and everyone wants a piece of him, but because of this new interest and rising fame he’s getting to be less a living, breathing hominid and more of a famous character, like Godzilla.
What are your thoughts on this subject?
Have a great weekend!
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