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4 Responses to “Belief in Sasquatch?”

1. Bipedal_Bill responds: April 17th, 2015 at 10:09 am

   True story. About a decade ago, before the explosion in cable, podcasts, Finding Bigfoot and self made webisodes on the topic of bigfoot, I was headed to Washington to shoot a pilot for a series about monsters. On the flight to Washington, I was reading up on a bunch of recent sightings I had printed from the BFRO website.

   Sitting next to me on the plane was a priest. At one point he asked me what I was reading and I told him about my trip. He laughed and said “Do you really believe that bigfoot exists?”. How could I resist… he just tee’d it up for me. I replied “Isn’t that what your whole life is based on? Believing in something you can’t prove that it exists? It’s really not much different.” He didn’t speak to me the rest of the trip. Personally, I like to think that God has a sense of humor and set that moment up for me to enjoy.

2. David-Australia responds: April 17th, 2015 at 7:15 pm

   True about “God” – she definitely does have a sense of humour.

3. springheeledjack responds: April 17th, 2015 at 9:26 pm

   It’s an invalid argument. You can “believe” in things based on faith but you can also believe in things based on available evidence. I believe gravity exists because I buy into the evidence that there is a force keeping objects from spinning off into space from the planet–support by mathematical and physics principles.

   By the same token, I “believe” in bigfoot based on the evidence of eye witness accounts in tandem with the footprint casts, hair samples, and legends and stories from Native American peoples who lived here long before us.

   Faith and belief pertain to intangibles such as the belief in God and otherworldly things that are primarily not physical.

   I do not believe BF or even my favorite water cryptids are intangibles.

4. Fhqwhgads responds: April 20th, 2015 at 11:42 am

   It’s too bad Jeff Meldrum thinks that faith means “an acceptance in the absence of evidence”. His failure to understand such a basic word and his lack of intellectual curiosity that should have driven him to find out what it means undermine his purported credibility. Quite simply, even if he has no faith of any kind, he could have spoken with someone who has, or he could have opened a book. People of faith have ALWAYS given evidence for their beliefs, just as Meldrum could list evidence for why he thinks Bigfoot is a biological reality. Medlrum may not find the evidence for God, or angels, or the afterlife, or whatever convincing — just as Meldrum’s peers in academia do not, with only a few exceptions, find his evidence for Bigfoot convincing. In either case, though, there is some kind of evidence.

   Let me be concrete without going into spiritual matters. In 1997, I visited Paris for a conference, and I took advantage of that opportunity to see the Cathedral of Notre Dame and take the tour up its towers. As is so often the case, pictures don’t do it justice; it is MUCH bigger than I thought it would be. I have two phobias that are barely phobias at all, in that they do not really affect my everyday life: a fear of heights (although I often take the window seat on planes) and a fear that an old building will be on the verge of collapse (which bothered me as a child but now rarely comes into play outside of dreams). When I emerged from the first tower and had to cross over to the second, though, both of these hit me hard. I was very high up and very close to a rail that wouldn’t stop me from falling, just trip me and make sure that I rotated on my way down if I fell. Also, I knew that vector mathematics, which seem essential to modern engineering, had not been invented when the cathedral was built, and I had seen what looked like gargoyles that had broken off and fallen from the church. Of course, I *KNEW* that the cathedral had stood for a half millennium and was therefore not likely to collapse during my half-hour visit, and I knew that engineers from the city must periodically inspect the structure to make sure it is safe. I tried to make myself enjoy the beautiful scenery, but it did not work; my body thought my brain was trying to kill it, and I almost vomited. I *knew* that the towers were safe, but I did not *believe* they were safe; reason told me they were safe, but I had no faith that they were.

   Yes, faith is a substitute for the absolute certainty that is called “sight” in religion and “proof” in science. Faith is not, however, a substitute for evidence; it is what allows one to make the jump from evidence to conviction.

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