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

~Counterarguments~ 1. Impact on Culture About dropping your point - If that were to happen on your last round it would've been voted against you, even if you couldn't post it due to some other reason. It is simply assumed you dropped your point until otherwise. My opponent seems to constantly sidestep my rebuttal. Just because something has an impact on culture has NO MERIT on the validity of it's existence. It should be wondered why only Skamania County (the place my opponent cited) is amongst the few if not the only places that makes a law regarding Bigfoot at all. 2. Eyewitness accounts "I never said eyewitness accounts was scientific evidence." --> Then my opponent's point about eyewitness accounts should be conceded. The bulk of the rest of my opponent's argument basically states that just because people haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Well then give us some evidence for it otherwise. Presumably you would use somatic evidence and footprints, therefore my opponent's argument about "Eyewitness Accounts" should be conceded, since he has stated already it isn't scientific evidence. 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." --> That's your fault you ran out of time. Read what I said in the beginning. But no matter, if you come with a feasible argument that I'd be glad to tackle it. In response to my opponent's actual argument pertaining to Native American artifacts, he has failed to refute my point about Native American artifacts being a circular argument, since the MYTH of Bigfoot arrived FROM Native American artifacts. He also has failed to note in my much earlier argument the fact that Native American artifacts differ many times, so while it may be transcendental in some Indian cultures, they may all have differing characteristics. The rest of my opponent's argument fails to account for something else: mis-identification of animals. This happens frequently with many other mythical creatures such as the Loch Ness, and could very well account for Bigfoot. Why my opponent includes sighting in part of "Native american artifacts" puzzles me. B. Footprints For the many footprints that are found to be hoaxed, not only can the people who find them be hoaxing them, but many times they are found to footprints of another animal. [1] C. Hair and Blood *Note that my opponent has failed to refute my point about hoaxes from the last round in argument 2C. Most samples ARE faulty for a number of reasons. Contrary to popular belief, a simple hair can't be consittuted to DNA analysis, we need the root or blood. Not only are all samples inconclusive, but many times they are found by animals. "Therefore, anyone can give him a sample from another country and still identify with another animal currently known to science" --> If his lab were to have a sample of every known specimen known to man. What is really tricky about any evidence for Bigfoot is that there is no universally accepted standard for which is right or wrong. We have the prints and the DNA of a bear, so when we go out and look for them, we know what to look for. Bigfoot hasn't a falsifiability mechanism in it, which is why so many purported "real evidence for Bigfoot" are hoaxes, fake, or inconclusive samples. Points D-G will be tackled in the next round, as my opponent states. ~Conclusion~ My opponent loves to dabble in copy-pasting long arguments, but all of them have failed on a scientific premise. He always goes back to the same argument, and I have refuted them many times. His eyewitness accounts part is self-admitted to be not scientific evidence, Native American artifacts is circular, and his footprints/somatic evidence arguments fail to address my point about labs without samples, hoaxes, and mis-identification of other animals. ---References--- 1. http://www.csicop.org... ===Points my opponent failed to refute=== *Native American Artifacts is a circular argument *Hoaxes in Round 3 - Contention 2C