Bigfoot can't and doesn't exist due to the lack of evidence and no fossil records supporting it.

~Counterarguments~ 1. Eyewitness accounts *Have the voters note my opponent has dropped his point about impact on culture. A personal anecdote is NOT SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE. Do not include "evidence" from footprints and anomalous hair samples under "Eyewitness accounts". I'll address it on the later points. You will notice two things about that. First, the orangutans were found in Borneo which happens to be an island. It is broken up in sections to the possession of countries Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. So off the bat we know that not very developed countries own, and the island in itself is mostly rural: full of undiscovered land and places dominated by animals; it has a diverse rain forest not found in America. [1] The reason why it took so long is that parts of it were and are still largely unexplored and properly charted. Such a biodiversity makes it hard for anyone to find all the animals, or a specific one at least. Finally Bigfoot is toted to be found in AMERICA, in many places where tons of people live very close to. It's also taller and bigger than a man, and doesn't stay amongst trees up high; it walks around also. 2. Scientific evidence A. Native American artifacts *My opponent has conceded this point. In response to his last part, using Native American artifacts to prove Bigfoot IS circular, since legends from Bigfoot, aka Sasquatch are DERIVED from Native American artifacts. It's like someone 100 years from now and pointing to a Bigfoot toy store and saying that's evidence for the existence of Bigfoot. B. Footprints Voters, do not let the lengthy response my opponent has most likely copy-pasted fool you. He merely restated what he said last round, in a much more detailed manner. As I have stated before in my refutation in Round 2, it HAS been found that such "realistic" footprints CAN be replicated by a human with some props. *He fails to refute my claim that hoaxers are inconsistent, and there are many footprints of said Bigfoot with different amount of toes, from 2 - 6. C. Hoaxes Interesting, that you cite a CRYPTOZOOLOGIST who says most are hoaxes. Obviously, Loren Coleman, said cryptozoologist, would believe the other ones are real. Ask a serious anthropologist; you'll get a different response (which is no, there aren't real Bigfoot). D. Hair and blood If my opponent did some adequate research, and not quote everything from Bigfoot websites, he would understand a couple things. FIRST, many samples are faulty, i.e. damaged. SECONDLY, many samples were found before DNA testing, and haven't been subjected to DNA tests. FINALLY, those who have are either from some other animal like a bear, or can be brought by a hoaxer who takes a sample from ANOTHER COUNTRY. Here's a scenario for you: The hoaxer takes some hair from an animal indigenous to only, let's say, Ireland. He then brings the sample to a lab in NORTH AMERICA, where the animal would NOT be found. Thus, when they do DNA analysis it would come up inconclusive North American lab would not have the set of DNA anomalies for animals found only in Ireland. *Note to voters once again this is a point my opponent has failed to refute. E. Absence of fossil evidence We find fossil evidence of many other animals, and such a large animal like Bigfoot should at least have SOME remain. We can't simply state that since Bigfoot MAY be there, and we just don't have fossil evidence for it, we should believe it still exists. That begs for us to believe in any mythological creature; we can argue using your same logic here. Most fossil evidence of great apes are mandibles and teeth and sulls. SO WHAT? We can get a lot from this, and we do have a working fossil record: http://en.wikipedia.org... When did I ever state Bigfoot wasn't Gigantopithecus? However, do realize that it is considered an extinct genus of ape, so you still have a big payload to prove there are some that still exist. Seriously, it's like a 10 foot 1,200 pound ape; the largest ever. *My opponent fails to refute my point about most if not all primates living in the tropics, while Bigfoot living in temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere. F. Nobody looks for Bigfoot remains except Bigfoot researchers. That's because THIS WASN'T AN ARGUMENT TO BEGIN WITH. It's more like cryptozoloogists whining. G. Cryptozoology and opinion It's one thing to say nobody looks for Bigfoot remains because its cryptozoolgy pseudoscientific BEE-ESS, but another to say that the scientific community will not evaluate any evidence due to personal bias. Sure, scientists have their biases, but much less than normal people. It's clear we dismiss it due to the LACK OF EVIDENCE. ~Conclusion~ "The view amongst the scientific community is justified, because there are possibilities that Bigfoot exist." --> What an awkward sentence, the view amongst the scientific community is that BIGFOOT DOESN'T EXIST. "There is no evidence indicated that Bigfoot never existed..." --> The burden of proof is on you to show Bigfoot existed. "...unlike the geocentric model when it was disproved." The model was a theory. It was disproved due to it's lack of evidence supporting it. Likewise, the Bigfoot myth is dismissed due to lack of evidence. It's YOUR BURDEN OF PROOF. I personally believe that a little more research should be going into Bigfoot. However, nothing has conclusively been found yet, and until then there is no proof that Bigfoot exists. ===Points my opponent dropped/conceded/failed to refute=== *Dropped point about impact on culture *Conceded point about Native American artifacts *Failed to refute my claim that hoaxers are inconsistent *Failed to refute point about samples from other countries *Failed to refute point about where primates live compared to Bigfoot ---References--- 1. http://en.wikipedia.org...