3rd September 2007, 2:00 AM
That seems unlikely, but certainly more plausible than a chupawhatsit. It's as if any unknown random creature will fit the bill of "chupacabra" though. It is odd how all previous descriptions (some contradictory) are tossed out the window so long as the NAME can be attached.
This is really no different than someone seeing a strange light in the sky and automatically assuming "aliens", when in reality, it's an unidentified object, which could be anything from a weather balloon to a flare to glare.
In both cases they reach their conclusion beforehand and try and match whatever evidence they have into that presupposition. Why not just admit you have no idea what it is and maybe you should look at it?
Anyway, it's not that something like a bigfoot can't exist, it's just the lack of evidence. Clearly there are plenty of undiscovered creatures but to jump from there to say that one SPECIFIC undiscovered creature with very specific features then must exist is not a logical leap. You can only make that claim if you have other evidence to back that up.
Want a chupacabra? Fine. Stab one in the neck and show me the body. They at least have a body this time, but it doesn't match any description I ever heard of a chupathingy.
This is really no different than someone seeing a strange light in the sky and automatically assuming "aliens", when in reality, it's an unidentified object, which could be anything from a weather balloon to a flare to glare.
In both cases they reach their conclusion beforehand and try and match whatever evidence they have into that presupposition. Why not just admit you have no idea what it is and maybe you should look at it?
Anyway, it's not that something like a bigfoot can't exist, it's just the lack of evidence. Clearly there are plenty of undiscovered creatures but to jump from there to say that one SPECIFIC undiscovered creature with very specific features then must exist is not a logical leap. You can only make that claim if you have other evidence to back that up.
Want a chupacabra? Fine. Stab one in the neck and show me the body. They at least have a body this time, but it doesn't match any description I ever heard of a chupathingy.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)