Atlantis is dead 

No, he's mistype talking to people who don't have a strong opinion at all

Kind of like one of our presidential candidates.

Exactly, and like flat earthers they won't be swayed by solid arguments against their pet hobbyhorse. They will continue galloping around thinking they are on a real thoroughbred.

@@robertspies4695 You mean all of them?

@@pencilpauli9442 this is different. Flat earth can be scientifically proven false, while this cannot. This is more like religion as he says, it cannot be proven wrong. Flat earth is not a religion, it is a mental deficiency or a delusion.

I think it's typical. Your name forces you to think about it. Like, John Brown, who was white, why did he championed the plight of brown people? And was willing to die for their freedom?! Imho his surname made him think about it. Maybe his peers teased him because of his surname since childhood and that prompted him to do what he did.

you mean Flint the Time detective

Especially since a dibble is a pointed implement for making holes in the ground.

Nominative determinism, perhaps? It must be entirely possible, as we've only studied less than 5% of the world's surnames, and we just haven't looked in the right places... 😉

Well, his father was a Paleolithic archaeologist who specialized in lithic reduction (aka flint napping). So no surpise he named his son Flint.

For me it was Ancient Aliens Debunked on youtube. Pretty much made me reconsider ALL the conspiracy theories I was into at the time.

@@dustinhatfield22 and now you associate skepticism with intellectualism so you are still wrong.

Same!

@@dustinhatfield22 Its like looking behind the curtain at a puppet show... Once you see it clearly demonstrated how ridiculous a certain conspiracy theory is, it doesn't take long to see the same thing with nearly all of them. They never lead anywhere. Had the same experience myself.

Not quite what I saw, saying what we've found so far doesn't support it is a bit smug. I'm not convinced either way but I'm still open to learn. Archeology is the best known answer on evidence we have at a point in time. New evidence for many things is discovered over time and the story changes. Like I say, Im not and can't be 100% either way .

his father is a famous archeologist who studies flint tools

@@francosfarms1573 That would be like a guy named Smith going to work at a forge :)

I guess you get all your information from Hancock instead of doing a RU-vid search 😂

Well all their architecture was made out of psionic energy. Sitting on a chair of levitating psychic power, the rain cascading down roofs and walls of psychic power to keep you dry, you sip the psychedelic wine resting in an invisible goblet of levitation. Entire cities dwarfing the biggest conurbation of our world, made out of thought. Yeah, that's it.

They were really environmentally conscious, just like those aliens that didn't left even one laser saw after they left. Some people just don't like to pollute:)

It all fell into the sea somehow though and government (yes, only one!) is hiding that innit.

​@@user-wb7nv9ht1gyou can't read

Classic!

What percentage of wardrobes have been checked by pseudoarchaeologists? Less than 1%? checkmate!

For real, another thing that really pissed me off was how he would hold Flint's claims to such an insane degree of evidence that it essentially disallows inferencing (the back and forth about Quezlcoat and how the myth changed after Spanish subjugation)

@@Pos3id0n. indeed. I think it was Carl Sagan who said something along the lines of 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' which in Hancock's bubble means that everybody has to perform biblical miracles to proof him worng, while he can just lean back in his pile of Patreon money , fabricating stories to fit his narrative and spouting plattitudes when confronted by his 'nemeses and enemies', basking in the warm support of the Ahnenerbe devotees, pissdrinkers, and dowsing rod peddlers . No Graham, the burden is not on US to proof YOU are wrong, the burden is on on YOU to proof YOU are right!

Ahahaha im dead

Why are theories without evidence "pseudo science"? They are by definition not science. Why claim otherwise? Theorizing (or more accurately hypothesizing) is the first step in the scientific method after which thorough research and testing of evidence follows. Humans haven't reached this level of technological advancement and knowledge by sticking to what we already know to be fact and "facts" have been debunked countless times through constant research and testing. I find this argument of calling something that no one claims to be scientific "pseudo science" misleading. There's real pseudo science out there e.g. all of astrology or Chinese medicine, latter of which, ironically enough, is being taught at Chinese universities. You also mention Flat Earthers. That's actual pseudo science that claims to be scientifically accurate.

exactly. we haven't found leprechauns yet, either. of course, we haven't looked everywhere =)

The evidence or lack there of made no difference to Graham, his audience is laymen who take Netflix and JRE seriously. Evidence never had any part... He's grifting a narrative to an uneducated audience prone to conspiracy and sensationalism because that's what sells.

You can tell crooks the moment they start complaining about the "mainstream suppressing" them. Same trick as left wing politics. It always catches enough fools to make a living.

@@Leo_ofRedKeep This has to be bait.

Hahahaha Cray MAGATS!!​@@Leo_ofRedKeep

​@@Leo_ofRedKeepcrazy MAGAT 🤡🐑

They view arrogance as not immediately bowing down and accepting that their garbage theories have the same level of plausibility as actual theories.

😂😂😂 So true. It’s like trying to present an argument based on facts to stupid people. The minute you offer actual evidence that doesn’t agree with whatever unfounded, ill-informed twaddle they’re spouting, they accuse you of denying them their right to an ‘opinion’. (And as evidence for this statement, I offer ‘pretty much any RU-vid ‘comments’ column.) 😂😂😂

he was passionate. I’ve noticed that people who aren’t passionate for truth but are motivated by status get really uncomfortable with earnestness, especially if they can’t exploit it.

Arrogance is conveyed by tone, attitude and a myriad of other cues both verbal and non verbal, not by being well researched and prepared. Dibble could have done much better than he did.

Just like when President Not Sure opened his mouth all the Idiocrats just wanted to slap him.

Its a bit more sad than that. He thinks if he builds up enough momentum someone else will come along and bail him out. When he says no one looked in the Sahara yet, he's hoping someone goes out there and finds another Golbeki Tepe 2.0 so he can jump up and say "I was right all along, Atlantis was real, apologize to me!" He, himself, won't be doing that work.

he is one of their main offenders......!!

@@Pangora2 Exactly. He has all this time, money, and resources, yet he can't start up his own digsites? He can't actually do the work to try finding it instead of waiting for actual archeologists to go on a wild goose chase? Come on.

@@LordVader1094 "He can't actually do the work to try finding it instead of waiting for actual archeologists to go on a wild goose chase?" Worse, archaeologists can and will do the work of the rich for money as long as they get their own funding to excavate something else of their own choosing. I believe this happened with the Koch billionaire funded radiocarbon dating of the Egyptian pyramids. Graham has the money to do this - to send archaeologists off to do what he claims to want. But of course he doesn't want that - he just wants to keep the mystery and ambiguity which helps him sell books. Plus the whole aim is making money, so funding archaeology would be a double whammy of loss for him.

Bingo

You say fiction but he described a place in the world perfectly.. Look up the Richat Structure in the Sahara. Consentric circles, 2 of water 3 of land. Mountains to the north Opening to sea to the south Large flat plains all around Buildings made of black, white and red stones All this above describes the Richat Structure in Sahara perfectly. Alongside there being outlines of huge structures (20+ metres long) around the Richat and Solon was told by ancient Egyptians in 600BC that its destruction happened 9000 years ago (which equals 11.600, the end of the Ice Age Younger Dryas) Also a lot of salt deposits found around the richat, showing that there could be water.

I wonder if one day George RR Martin’s partial works survives without much context in 1000 years after current storage degradation… will people argue that King’s Landing was real in the same way?

@@goober479 it was, its in Dubrovnik 😂

Yes we do have other sources for Atlantis

I always thought it was a fictionalised version of Athens, and it's woes.

Flint was spitting facts with sourced evidence but he was mean :( 1-nil to Graham Hand cock

When all else fails, fall back to tone policing

1:58 Nobody said, not even Graham Hancock, Atlantis was about bigger cities and culture etc as Stefan claims. Maybe Atlantis culture was Göpeklitepe etc and you guys are in fact arguing in vain about the same?

@@radieschen79 Gobekli is a standard megalithic site. There is nothing super advanced about it. It is just store masonry which has been around for thousands of years.

​​@@radieschen79 One can't make claim of a global civilization and not imply that the culture wasn't massive. A global spanning civilization would by default be a large culture. Especially if it left its fingerprints as Graham likes to say in all these places around the world. The more time goes on the more it seems Graham is just throwing stuff at a wall and hoping something sticks. He's searched high and low from the Middle East to the Americas. From Africa to Asia and when one site fails he's onto the next. I think this Flint fella did an amazing job dismantling Graham as the snake oil salesman he is.

Nonsense. They made their buildings of sugar cubes.

Lmao 👑

good hypothesis! I'd like to propose one of my own. the ancient atlantians had acces to vast amounts of either helium, or hydrogen. filling billions of balloons they created a sort of Laputa situation. if it was hydrogen it would also explain why there's no evidence left of them.

Or out of tissue or rice paper? Then it could’ve just dissolved.

you're so mistaken. they built everything out of sand and had to rebuild every time the tide came in and washed it away.

I believe in it, but not in the same way as Hanncock or the story is told. I also dont "want" to believe, per say, more want to learn about the past. That said, i dont think it was some advanced civilization that spread the globe lol, i dont even think its in the Atlantic or was even called Atlantis. I think its a site LIKE Globeki Tepe, though more i think about it, Gobleki Tepe does make more sense, and the tellings of the place and people spanned for so long orally, the truth was just heavily exaggerated to the fantasy Plato wrote down. I think it would be interesting if that were true, it would show us how that story changed through time, as well as how Plato viewed the past and people of it even more. And it might teach us that hunter gatherers, at least in that area, were possibly slightly more advanced than what people thought. We went from thinking Neanderthals were dumb cavemen, only to now know they were pretty smart with language and spirituality of a sort, holding a form of funerals. It would be interesting if we could learn that hunter gatherers 12000 yrs ago were just slightly more advanced than we think now, and way more advanced than what the Greeks thought of them when Plato wrote about Atlantis. But i also recognize that its true, this can be only be true in the gaps of our knowledge. We cant find evidence of oral tradition as easily as written, and for my theory to be true, it requires a ton of oral retellings getting mistranslated throughout those years.

Oh! But i 100% agree! Real history is much more interesting than ancient aliens lol. I just dont exactly see this one the same, only the way other people like Hanncock like to push. They werent some magical race that got their info from aliens and were more advanced than the Greeks lol. If it is real, if the people are real, they are regular people that just figured out a how to make stone buildings earlier than others, and retold so many times in a way that became the fantasy we know today. Thats it.

Because most people can't appreciate complexity, just grandeur. Complex things are only amazing to people if they put in the mental work to understand how complex it really is, and then imagine someone from the stone age actually doing all that, step by step, over hundreds or thousands of years. Or... BAM! Gobekle Tempe magically appears one day out of nowhere! How did it get there?! Where did it come from?! Nobody knows! Since we don't know, I'll just say it was ancient super people with mental powers who levitated all the rocks into place! Isn't that amazing! ZOMG LOLOLOL amazeballs.

Yep facts are stranger than fiction 👍

I see what you mean but the problem of real history is that, like reality, it doesn't suck up to biases, doesn't massage egos and -most importantly- is messy. The likes of Hancock, like priests, give a cozy orderly view of the world.

Why? I mean, if he had a point at all that would be a great way to describe it.

It’s in that big government warehouse somewhere.

It belongs in a museum!

So did MacGyver

found fate in it as well

One of the best games ever

Theres one on the NC coast. Dog friendly.

@@arawilson I stayed in the Shih Tzu suite.

That’s right! I saw it two days ago. In Nassau. Atlantis exists

Because anti-intellectualism is still a viable market. Sadly.

⁠@@NinjaMonkeyPrime That's only part of it. There's also a strong streak of people who imagine they are the true intellectuals who know the "truth". They rely on what they perceive to be strong evidence and lack sufficient self awareness.

Also there are lots of people who lack the ability to understand the subject matter and think critically about it. Maybe they were brought up in an environment where they were discouraged from asking questions. Unwarranted belief (faith) was valued over reason. Even if they stop going to church (say), that mindset usually means they’ll latch on to something else, like pseudoscience. I’ve had family members who have done just that, and you can’t reason with them because that’s not how they work.

Yeah I saw that a couple of years ago. The fact that he still managed to carry on is a testament to the gullible nature of mankind that on average prefers stories to objective evidence.

Just look at how popular Rogan is.​@@NinjaMonkeyPrime

@Israelisnotourfriend Big Equine caused this.

No, they live in my head :)

No Atlantis is real but there civilization was destroyed by big archaeology by flinging down the shapes of under water rocks and refusing graham handcock to do an excavation in the Mariana Trench

I want to logically analyze this statement very earnestly, but oh what a trap it is. a veritable riddle penned by either a genius or a fool, for I cannot tell which.

​@Israelisnotourfriend If you are being literal, maybe. But people generally refer to the unicorn as a very specific cryptid 😊 The narwal "horn" is actually an elongated tooth, BTW 😉

I mean he supports that view, what else is he supposed to say besides that he agrees with that point

It might be a stronger argument to present a view's evidence and arguments than just saying how much of a great view it is and how much you like it

Hancock wouldn't know a fact if it walked up and kicked him in the teeth

You will notice in life that people who shall we say "lack understanding/education" tend to follow a similar approach to questions. They incorrectly assume making poorly formed assumptions supposedly represents "reasoning" and the fervent repeating of those incorrect beliefs represents logic in their minds. You see with the Hancock fanboy club they'll simply go round and round trapped in their superficial reasoning and poor assumptions deluding themselves into believing they understand what they clearly do not. It is a self-generated fantasy for their part which is exceedingly difficult to break them free of. It requires the one thing they are loathe to do = educate themselves. 🤷

Not enough evidence to say he's a con-man. Stop using belief and seek the truth instead.

So lying about the data and now stealing as a youth. What a prick

For instance, in the one book, he begins by citing Einstein and others vaguely about the Earth’s crust sliding around, the poles swapping to the equator. He takes that and goes to another point and then another and eventually erases the link to the pole movement but retains the conclusions from them. He fixates on the Mayans and their calendar, but that doesn’t fit the pole movement. If you aren’t paying attention you might think he was making sense. But he didn’t.

Contrary to what Hancock likes to portray himself as the underdog but he's not. All of these Lost High Technology influencers and personalities have more influence than academics. Just look at the subscriber and view counts on someone like Brighy Insight vs this channel. Or look at how many times these pseudoscience pushers got on Joe Rogan, the biggest podcast in the world. They have reach and clout. It's important to push back against it. The academics let it fester and it was because they had the same idea as you. Now millions of people are indoctrinated into that cult and fund their nonsense.

@docwhammo Nah, I don't think even he believes himself.

"He’s built a life on being a charlatan" *He REBUILT his life on being a charlatan, because it paid better and took less work than the journalism he was doing before that for years.

Sad times for you Fannie’s letting a 70 year old man live rent free in your heads

It’s a shame flint lies about the data

Totally agree he made the debate awesome didn’t play to one side to much

Yet, here we are. We almost have to scream vaccines don't cause autism, Atlantis wasn't real, the Earth is round, and all that. But still, the crazy train doesn't seem to stop.

He is the Avi Loeb of SidMeyers LostCiv5

Why is big archaeology/physics suppressing all the research about Quantum Atlantis.?..

Bro, get out of this hole​@@damiansilva2454

@@damiansilva2454 atlantis must be in some hidden parralel dimension.

We'll get ourselves there eventually lol.

Where’s your evidence?🤔

@@georgecisneros5281 look at America now and wait a thousand years.

@@short207 “A thousand years” from now, is not evidence that exists NOW. If we’re holding folks like Hancock to such a rigorous standard of requiring hard observable evidence for their claims to be taken seriously, then surely one must hold themselves to such a standard when making a claim of that nature regarding the prospective fate of our own society, especially if we’re talking about such long time frames as an entire millennium. I mean…wouldn’t want to be a hypocrite here…right?😉

@@georgecisneros5281 I was making a joke...

Only problem is that at least Atlantis has the appeal of being an ancient invention, Lemuria is a recent one.

nahh it is in the dark side of the moon

Lemuria got nuked by Atlantis. I got evidence, it's the big giant black hole of lack of evidence

😂😂😂

Is that where Lemurs come from?

A guy's gotta make a living someway!

It's just a belief not a real theory which is why it's 'difficult' to argue with them. It's like trying to disprove the existence of God. You can't prove a negative but a rational person will logically be skeptical and assume it's not real. Same goes for Atlantis/the so-called advanced civilization.

The guy is like 90 years old, I think he's retired. ​@@josephjanitorius797

Handcock’s pitch is the base of a faith or religion. Mainstream science is supposed to be about making predictions and testing them. Heinrich Schliemann had a belief that Homer described ancient cultures, cities and conflict. He then tested his hypothesis by digging where he concluded were the spots described in the Iliad, etc. Being part early archeologist-antiquarian-looter-scammer he missed his Troy. Others said Schliemann didn’t find the grand city described by Homer but then others scanned & dug around the base of the citadel. And later archeologists did find a city. Arthur Evans said Linear B script is NOT Greek. M Ventris & Prof Chadwick proved that it was therefore testing Evan’s prediction.

His entire argument is a fallacy, he’s appealing to a lack of evidence to disprove his argument. He’s complete bs

Imagine the amount of garbage that will be peddled once we set foot on another planet. 🤦‍♂️

Exactly, he got used to the money and clout and then there was no turning back...it's a grift

I think yes he has found his audience and it would be self destructive at least financially to do something say something else. But he decided to do this in the first place before it was so well known and spends his life travelling around and exploring. I think he was a journalist before like on war i think not sure though and just stumbled into this stuff while working and eventually it consumed him and it brought success and money. I think a true grift it when you dont have any belief or passion for it.

@@bennybenny55 When you know something is fake but you play into it and allow the money n attention to make you believe your own lies or ignore any self correction, still a grift..

@rebekahdavis5935 I don't think he thinks it's fake... but he is too intelligent to not interact with the damning evidence in sincere way. I dont know Hancocks actual believes but I think its his version of religion. Like a Christian who accepts the big bang evolution and everything can't really say anything against it but still wants to hold on to his belief no matter what. As the evidence doesn't exactly disprove the theory just makes it more and more unlikely.

Interestingly there are a few other seemingly distinct legends of lost islands that all happen to follow the Mid Atlantic Ridge. Places that figure into very old myths like the ones concerning where the original inhabitants of Ireland supposedly came from. It's curious how that and several other islands that only appear on medieval maps are all along that MAR that just happens to eerilly mirror the location and extent of the island chain in that old Greek myth. What are the odds of several unconnected lost island myths from opposite ends of the Mediterranean all being set fairly near each other and aligning with a major geological feature that none of them could possibly have known of? So what if... When the sea level drops the massive glaciers depress the continental plates half a mile. We know this. But what about the equilibrium between the weight of all that lost water vs the material under the oceanic plates pressing up? The lost hundred meters makes a hundred tons of net force trying to push every square meter of the entire Atlantic plate up. The stuff below the plate, the "asthenosphere" is about 25% more dense than water so the result should be the entire ocean plate trying to rise 80 meters. Only it can't, not evenly at least. There's also interesting geometric consequences when you figure on structures extending way over the horizon trying to rise or fall as one. In fact the odd and poorly understood transverse faults that run perpendicular to the MAR could be what gives way when exactly such movements try to happen. Any way you cut it the likelihood is only a small fraction of the seafloor can move in response to such vertical forces but both the seawater and underlying asthenosphere would be incompressible and therefore convey the vast majority of those forces large distances to these weak spots. Just imagine 90% of that movement occuring at the 10% of the seabed near these transverse faults and the MAR. Basically the edge of the ocean plate would curl upwards or bend back down as that mass leaves or returns to the oceans. That could cause 700 meters of rise and fall in those areas beyond the 100 meters of actual sea level change. That's a half mile all together which would actually be enough to leave a dense chain of islands along the MAR and the Azores an island almost as big as Ireland. That's a pretty funny coincidence when you just read the bits about the geography from the Greek story. Sure it seems pretty out there but there have been controversial geological findings suggesting some of these seamounts were at least a half mile closer to the surface within the last million years (the minimum resolution of the tests used, it could've been say 10,000 years ago) but its mostly been discounted as no accepted geologic theory can explain that result since that has been deep ocean for fifty million years. There was a core of accurate information in the -Odyssey- _Iliad_ that could be verified by the scientific method with the discovery of Troy when someone finally bothered to try. Whatever distortions or embellishments might've been introduced by Plato his story might've had a basis in objective fact after all.

​@@johnassal5838 _"There was a core of accurate information in the Odyssey that could be verified by the scientific method with the discovery of Troy when someone finally bothered to try."_ Troy, the city, was referenced by way more accounts than Odyssey (and Iliad, btw), and we found the historical Troy beneath several layers of several cities built on top of one another. What it is unclear if it is myth or really happened is the Trojan War (of Homeric stories), it remains an open question. It's the Troy being the setting of the Homeric Trojan Wars that is in question, even to this day when we already know where Troy is (beneath several layers of other "Troys"). Whereas Atlantis is only ever mentioned by Plato and no one else (all other references are based on his), and it's done as a rhetoric instrument to tell an allegory in two _dialogues._

“The good ole days”

Well I think we forgetting that Atlantis was created in a day by the literal god of the sea and a continent island sank in one day due to an earthquake. When you remember that part it’s obviously not a true story yeah?

That's literally what it was. Plato was just making up crap to make a point about how even with all the tech in the world, if your society wasn't well-disciplined it wouldn't last.

That's called archaeological puberty.

You must have liked the dibble ohh I read but can’t provide any citations part then. Here’s some evidence here’s some lies, all dibble done was dismantle he him they she self

Police do it all the time.

Context matters here. Debate invitations from someone who made some things up, and from someone who made some things up on a Netflix show with millions of followers who believe in a conspiracy theory are two different things. Randoms don't matter, but influencers definitely do. The youth already have a problem with authority and established ideas, so when they hear an influencer start influencing people in the other direction and nothing is done about it, well... You get to where we are today. Millions of people who listen to a podcast to and from work now believe in a claim with no evidence. So by Flint debating this guy, he's forcing Graham's audience to think a bit harder about the topic, and maybe find some evidence for it. People who make crazy claims shouldn't be listened to, but they should be debated if they have access to LITERALLY the largest podcast audience in the world.

Will more progress in fighting misinfo be made by _not_ accepting debate invitations? Misinfo spreads plenty well when credentialed academics _don't_ platform or debate misinfo-spreaders.

They need the money or they have a book to sell.

@stewartlee8858 they may try, but remember, never talk to cops (that’s what lawyers are for)

Open each and every cupboard to disprove Narnia exited.

His dad was an archaeologist and named him flint because of that! But I like the flintstones idea too.

😂😂😂

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@@dukeon thanks!

Someone much crazier and more dangerous than Graham!

Yeah. I even don't know who Hancock may be (the name sounds vaguely familiar but from this video he seems delusional or a sensationalist mass-scammer or both). However Atlantis is real, just not that old nor fantastic, much less underwater (it was destroyed by a huge tsunami but tsunamis don't sink landmasses except for a brief time). It is the Copper and Bronze Age civilization of Vila Nova de São Pedro (VNSP) culture of what is now Portugal, the only civilization (with fortified towns) in the whole Atlantic Ocean basin in those days (at least for what archaeology knows so far). Its capital (the barely researched Castro do Zambujal, near modern Torres Vedras) was linked to the sea by a "marine branch" of the exact length Plato said (50 stadia = 10 km roughly), which was silted at the time of the civilization's collapse (by a tsunami necessarily). They had 10 royal megalithic tombs in the area, they were very influential since its inception (pre-Bell Beaker, later also major center of Bell Beaker but surviving until well into the Late Bronze Age collapse period) and "ritual bull hunt" is practiced there to this very day. What don't fit from Plato are: the absurd Paleolithic date, the elephants (they did import ivory anyhow, from Africa and also from Syria, where they or related peoples left a megalithic legacy in the early Bronze Age) and the mineral wealth (which was however in the nearby less civilized country of Eastern Iberia, from the Galician tin and gold to the Western Andalusian fabled Tartessian mines that even get a cameo in the Bible as the source of Solomon's wealth). What doesn't fit with the "popular" versions of the legend varies, depending on the best seller author you may read, but definitely it was not truly sunk and thus there's nothing that big to be found underwater.

​@@LuisAldamiz what do you think the location of Plato's cave is? Might help to inform yourself a bit more on the matter.

@@paulisfat8077 - WTF! Plato's cave is apparently where you live...

@@LuisAldamiz Nice try, but Atlantis, with Solomon mines and El Dorado and stuff like that, is in my backyard, not in your backyard.

@@LuDux 🤣🤣🤣 Solomon didn't have any mines: he invested in Phoenician businesses and got a nice cut from the colonial profits of Tarshish (Tartessos, a well known SW Iberian civilization of the Iron Age, which probably replaced Atlantis after the LBA destruction but at different geography). This also helps to calibrate the likely chronology of the legendary king, which can't be 9th century as Biblical scholars claim (in their literalistic idiocy) but rather 7th century BCE, when Tyre had already founded Gadir as their outpost and the first Phoenician influences arrived in South Iberia (incl. steel making, which makes the Basque word for iron, "burdin", probably derived from the Canaanite one "berzel"). Which is your backyard? There were no other civilizations in the whole Atlantic Ocean basin (that we know of) in those Bronze Age dates.

So your sons a muppet who buys into archeological lies. Anyone with half an interest in the lost civilisation theory was laughing at the amount of lies flint told about the data. Have a look at the lead spikes in the ice core data going back tens of thousands of years it fairly easy to find it’s a shame flint lied about it

if you look at the comments in the joe rogan video they are all character attacks on Flint, they have no interest in engaging with evidence that does not support their ideas.

That definitely parallels the religion debate. Faith is what people have in the absence of evidence.

Flint does nothing but add some weak denial to everything

I used to be a hancock fan and I can safely say it's comfier for people to believe some fairytales are true because it gives you a sense of wonder and whimsy which is lacking in the modern world. I don't blame them, I just think it's a misplaced avenue for it.

​@@josephjanitorius797lol. Go read aquinas.

That would be great if Flint or Stefan went on without Graham. I'll have to finish the pod so I can hear the reference 😮

I believe you are right.

My response to this is well fucking fund some them Graham. He could crowdfund huge sums to finance archaeology - but it shouldn't really be spent on furthering his narrative.

@@buntsbanter1380Exactly, he could fund archeology in all the areas he wishes had more grant money to do digs. He could donate that needed money into the research at specific locations. Instead, he complains that they don’t do it all for free at his request.

@@buntsbanter1380he regularly does fund raising for archaeologists. His website is full of areas you can donate to, he is in the middle of raising funds for more Lidar surveys of the Amazon. Stupid fanny

His core audience are not looking for objectivity.

Snowflake perhaps… *his radical left twitter*

I respect the time taken to gift us with this

...and sharp as an arrow...

Liar comes to mind

Glancing through the RU-vid comments and some stuff on Reddit, it did appear a few people had reassessed their belief in Hancock's "ideas." But, overall, it appeared a larger percentage doubled down in their beliefs. There was lots of talk about Dibble's attire, size of his hands, etc, real silly stuff.

@@Lee-bv6iv I would absolutely love to see their opinions of archaeologists upon seeing a bunch of crusty shovel bums who just got back from the field.

People simply have to learn that science doesn't exist for their amusement. It has no obligation to be funny or even interesting.

@@Lee-bv6ivwhenever someone has to resort to ad hominem attacks, you know they’ve lost.

Not all, but some. Those that are diehard fans will be diehard fans. The people in the middle are the key.

Do you think that Stefan is an Atlantis conspiracy theorist? If so, I have absolutely no idea how you came to that conclusion. He's very much not.

@@jabberwoke1 Nope. I have watched and enjoyed several of his videos and I think I even subscribed. It's also okay to disagree on a topic without disliking a person or their videos or channel. I like Stefan's channel and videos. I was voicing my disappointment in this topic. If you read my comment, you'd know I said, "There are so many great archaeology sites to be excited about, I wish they'd stop bringing this old chestnut up again and again."

@ellen4956 I don't know how, but only the first couple of sentences of your comment were visible to me. Maybe I didn't see the "read more" button, but it only showed the first two sentences before that and nothing more. Clearly, you weren't saying what I commented. Sorry, and I actually agree with you.

That is why it is a hypothesis..... He knows he does not have hard evidence.

@@kageminato2127 calling Hancock’s ideas, a cogent hypothesis, is a bit of a stretch. Especially more so given he admits there is no evidence to even support it. Making what he espouses purely ideas of fantasy fan-fiction.

@@ryann6067 it's still a hypothesis, no matter what your opinion of the hypothesis itself is. Sorry.

Unicorns are real. They live in Africa, and we typically call them rhinoceros.

I like to listen to storytellers who are upfront about being storytellers.

There's a RU-vid video from the guy leading the excavation of Gobekli Tepe. Well worth a watch. I think not too many archeologists talked about it previously because so little was known. Very little of the site has been excavated Even today, but he has plenty of interesting stuff to talk about.

Elasmotherium? They were real.

@gregcollins7 Don't ya wish there was a symbol like the question mark that represented sarcasm? !:- )

I would smash the drywall and remove my head.

I don’t believe putting one’s head through drywall is a standard part of archaeological training.

A true Graham Hancock fan would just stay there and learn to live with it

@@Grrrr3FKAGrrrrGrrrrGrrrr And blame it on archaeologists.

Steamrolled with lies by flint. Have you looked at the ice core data showing lead spikes going back tens of thousands of years or do you just like getting spoon fed nonsense by RU-vid content creators?

They are don't existing.

the atlantians have deleted them

RU-vid never posts replies real-time. At the time of my watching this, this video is 11 minutes old with 97 comments and only 20 showing. This happens on every video. It's not some Atlantis sleeper cell censoring information, I promise.

Bots being blocked probably

Won't show replies to your comment either. 143 comments atm, but only 2 are shown.

I'm sure any elements of truth it may have became greatly exaggerated through any retellings.

​@@Forge366this is my thinking as well. I believe there was a place, but yea, like a game of telephone, through thousands of years of retelling orally, the truth is exaggerated heavily into the fantasy Plato wrote down.

@@Rhaenarys Plato wasn't recounting a well known myth though, no other records of the story exist before he wrote it down. Sure he might have been inspired but it's in the same way any modern fiction writer can be inspired.

@@hedgehog3180 thats why i specifically said orally retelling. Lots of stories are gone because thats the only way they were told.

VERY good points - the true believers' egos are tied to Hancock's myth and just getting the attention on Rogan's show is a victory for them. Odd, but this also applies to some politicians and their nutty ideas, and to their followers who are emotionally invested in them.

yeah I'd argue that Joe Rogan was the winner here, or really whoever is producing his show now (Spotify, IIRC?). Lots of money to be made in backing spectacles

that is some mental gymnastics right there

really? have you analyzed every grain of sand in the Sahara? how many grains of sand have been analyzed? have you been there? /s

Ay! You're here

Dood. Do you say Abrasax or Abraxas? Collecting votes.

No he didn't. Not at all. Weakest debater I have ever heard.

Would've been way stronger than Flint, that's for sure.

this is the first comment I've seen on Stefan's video that actually has a good take. Im a bit surprised. he's such a cool youtuber, I figured he'd have a cooler community.

@@reporeport well i consider myself part of that community. man has great content. it's just graham does have such a bad argument, but good to prove that with the facts, not attacks.

@@regentmad1037 As do I, i've been watching since he had like 20k subs. I just think Graham plays a more important role than much of this community seems to think. Which is fine. its not that deep, I just very much enjoyed your take!

@@reporeport yeah, never saw the part where graham calls him out for calling him a racist, and justifiably so. man that's just sad. i spoke to soon.

_"There is still an interesting story somewhere in prehistory explaining where all the skills and capabilities came from to build the huge structures of the"_ Is there really though? After nearly a decade of ignoring evidence, Hancock is finally admitting that Gobekli Tepe wasn't something that happened suddenly. In most cases we have evidence of gradual learning to work with stone. Hancock just ignores it because it doesn't sell his books.

@@NinjaMonkeyPrime It's irrelevant what Hancock admits or doesn't. Wherever those skills came from is the core of what hooks people into this whole subject. Specifically, it's more possible earlier pyramids builders of Nubia migrated north along the Nile valley as the climate changed and brought those skills with them.

@@berer. You're saying it doesn't matter if Hancock lies about existing research? He hooks people by selling them an anti-intellectual narrative that scientists are incompetent fools and he supports that by lying about evidence. His core isn't evidence or lack of it, it's that you are smart and scientists are mean and dumb. Sadly there's a market for that.

@@berer. But the history of how pyramid building in Ancient Egypt developed is well documented, there's no need to invoke climate change when the history of Old Kingdom Egypt is very well preserved in texts. I'd recommend watching “Ancient Egypt: Dynasty by Dynasty” by History with Cy if you're interested.

I just like to imagine the atlantis types going around looking for Plato's Cave.

Oh, that's not bad. I might steal that.

@@NinjaMonkeyPrime go for it, I'd say lots of people have made the same remark.

i think atlantis might be the oldest and most famous "things were better back in the day"

The one thing that frustrated me is he didn't hone in on the point that of how unbelievable Hancock's conclusions. It was obviously implied and he did mention it but honestly I think he needed to make it clearer, especially for Hancock's fans

Flint just showed his woke bias. However he nailed the debate if you could call it that because handcock only had feels and fairytales.

there’s still a lot of work to be done in this area.

If you have to explain racism, it probably isn't racism. I'm a Hancock fan and while his stories might be fantastical, they're certainly not racist.

@@philmusson1265 you don't think it's racist to believe that the people of pre-Columbian south america could not have figured out how to stack stones without some kind of outside influence? which is what the ancient alien/atlantis idea boils down to " brown people to dumb to stack stones."

It’s a shame he lied about the data

Kinda the opposite, his dad was a renowned archeologist who specialized in flint knapping so he named his kids after that.