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

Arguments 1. Impact on culture I did NOT dropped my point about impact on culture. I just didn't state it in my last argument. In fact, Bigfoot had had demonstrable impact as a popular culture phenomenon that led to a law regarding Bigfoot in 1969 declaring that "any willful, wanton slaying of such creatures shall be deemed a felony", subject to substantial fine and/or imprisonment. The fact that this legislation was passed on April 1 did not escape notice, but County Commissioner Conrad Lundy said that "this is not an April Fool's Day joke ... there is reason to believe such an animal exists." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org... 2. Eyewitness accounts "A personal anecdote is NOT SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE." I never said eyewitness accounts was scientific evidence. I didn't even include "evidence" from footprints and hair samples under "Eyewitness accounts. I just made a point for people who chooses to ignore the evidence. Just because we don't see them, doesn't mean that they don't exist. A number of new species are still being discovered every year. Bigfoot may be found in America, but many people don't live near it. Sightings of Bigfoot are reported mainly in the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Northwest, is a region in the northwest of North America consisting of California, Oregon and Washington, as well as parts of Canada. Because many areas have plentiful rainfall, the Pacific Northwest has some of North America's most lush and extensive forests, and at one time, the largest trees in the world. Most of the human population of the Pacific Northwest is concentrated in the Vancouver-Seattle-Portland corridor and the human population currently is approximately 11 million people. The reason that Bigfoot was rarely found was because "parts of it were and are still largely unexplored and properly charted" and the Pacific Northwest is a very uninhabited land. The first survey to systematically explore the forest canopy in the Carmanah Valley of Vancouver Island yielded 15,000 new species, a third of all invertebrates known to exist in all of Canada. "Ohio has a lot of forested areas where a Sasquatch can hide," Powell said. "There are large tracts of forested land, even in metropolitan areas. The creatures operate basically at night so they aren't sighted. A lot of sightings aren't reported because people fear ridicule." If Bigfoot is nocturnal, then we would have less chances of seeing one, especially in an uninhabited land where most of the human population is in the Vancouver-Seattle-Portland corridor with many forested areas where Bigfoot can hide. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org... http://en.wikipedia.org... http://en.wikipedia.org... http://www.bigfootencounters.com... 3. Scientific evidence A. Native American artifacts My opponent falsely claimed that I conceded this point. I SPECIFICALLY said "I have nothing to say, because I'm almost out of time, thinking for an argument." Due to the lack of time and limited character space, I couldn't put my argument for Native American in Round 2. Stories about sightings of Bigfoot-like creatures amongst Native Americans provide evidence that the Bigfoot phenomenon is not culture specific, lending even more evidence to the idea that it is not caused by a mass hallucination, since mass hallucinations don't jump cultures very well. The stories also show that the phenomenon is a continuous one which has occurred in the Pacific Northwest for more than 150 years. Bigfoot sighting stories and footprint stories from indigenous cultures have been written down for the past 150 years; the oral history of big foot sightings amongst Native Americans is much older. If the "Bigfoot phenomenon" is mostly caused by deliberate human fabrication, the written stories suggest it's been a long term hoax operating over a 150 year time span, and all across the United States and Canada. It could not be caused by a single hoaxer, since no one individual can live that long, but could be caused by one or more groups of hoaxers. Sighting report frequencies do not correlate well with human population density. If the sighting reports were generally due to hoaxing, the frequency of the reports would be expected to correlate well with human population density. It's intriguing to note that the data show that this is not the case. The distribution of the geographic place names associated with Bigfoot do not correlate well with human population density either. If one had to pick one pattern to describe in general the location of the greatest frequency of place names, they could be said to correlate with the summit peaks of the mountain ranges of the United States. Since this terrain is considered to be favored by Bigfoot, this makes for an interesting deduction from the place name data. The only way such a hoax could be perpetrated would be in the event that a secret organization has existed for the past 150 years whose goal it was to trick the people of North America into believing in a false hominid that does not truly exist. Source: http://home.nycap.rr.com...? B. Footprints A strong piece of evidence which suggests that the footprints are not due to a hoax or hoaxers is from Dr. W. Henner Farenbach. He states that groups of hoaxers who didn't conspire together would almost certainly result in a non-Gaussian distribution for the database of footprint lengths. Source: http://home.nycap.rr.com...? Thousands upon thousands of footprints all across North America have been found, most predominantly in the Pacific Northwest. The opposing argument to this claim is that all the footprints are fakes, made by pranksters who wanted to play practical jokes on their local communities. Maybe once, twice, even 30 to 40 times. But a couple thousand? Is there a secret fake Bigfoot society that is dedicated to making fake footprints all across North America, desiring to falsely make people believe that Bigfoot exists? MOST alleged Bigfoot tracks have five toes, but some casts show creatures with two, three, four, or even six toes. There are more Bigfoot tracks that show consistency that have five toes and you can infer that the lesser amount of footprints of inconsistency and variation are made by hoaxers. Therefore, Bigfoot has five toes and other footprints that that varies with a different amount of toes from 2 - 6 are known as hoaxes. Sources: http://www.csicop.org... C. Hair and Blood Many samples are NOT faulty. We just have nothing to compare these hair sample data to. Dr. W. Henner Farenbach is among those scientists actively testing hair samples for identification using genetic material. Dr. Fehrenbach can't tell for sure that it's Bigfoot hair without a "real" Bigfoot for comparison, but he can determine what it's not - and these hairs didn't come from any animal currently known to science. Therefore, anyone can give him a sample from another country and still identify with another animal currently known to science. If anyone gives him a sample that didn't come from any organism, then his DNA tests can indicate whether if the sample data is organic or inorganic. Source: http://home.nycap.rr.com...? D. Absence of fossil evidence F. Nobody looks for Bigfoot remains except Bigfoot researchers. G. Cryptozoology and opinion To be used in the next round due to limited characters. Conclusion: Due to aforementioned reasons, Bigfoot can exist.