Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.789

   But to say that enough work has been done to rule out the possibility of a lost civilization seems to me absurd when we're dealing with 27 million km. Nobody is ruling it out, Graham. Nobody is saying it's impossible. You're the one pretending it exists despite having zero evidence for it. That's not how science works. That's why you're a joke to scientists and adored exclusively by gullible people who like your crappy TV show. You have no evidence. And Flint has supplied two lines of evidence against you. Funny how you just ignored them both, huh? I just want to say that I and my wife Samanth…

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2. 02 · yt0.784

   The debate is 4 and a half hours long, so we're not going to go through every last moment. But given that this is the centerpiece of this fiasco, we do need to spend a good amount of time here. So, let's dive into it. I'm here to try to discuss with Graham um and to test his lost civilization hypothesis. He has this he's written about it many books and he's uh given many talks here and on Netflix and he's talked about this idea of a lost advanced civilization from the ice age and advanced civilization that's around the globe right and in particular he thinks there was a glo a global cataclysm …

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3. 03 · yt0.781

   Now in that particular case you had some accusations of hoaxing because the the object was discovered during a well boring. People drill for water in that part of the country, Idaho the western states and at a depth of about 300 feet as you were mentioning they came up from the well boring with this object. Now there were are people who tried to offer a different explanation. They said, "Well, there must have been a fissure that went down to that level. And you know, there was some little artifact that had been made, some figurine that had been made by Indian tribes and it ended washed down th…

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4. 04 · yt0.767

   I've been with Ala Ranzi who's a geographer from from Brazil and with Fabio Davis Filho who's a LAR expert. Uh this is very recently actually. Um and uh we did some LAR work uh in that area and this is the kind of this is the kind of thing that's being found huge enormous uh earthworks geoglyphs which were where we to find them in the west we would recognize them as almost as henes. A you did a ride along. Was it take your children to work day? That's cool that you had a little photo op with some real scientists. Did you find any evidence to support your super advanced Atlantis civilization [&…

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5. 05 · yt0.764

   And we actually put together predictive models on how to find this stuff. And so there because it's really expensive to go diving, right? And so how many dives do you think have been done? Like how many times? Thousands. Thousands. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And lots of different sites have been found from all over the world. And specifically, it was done to try to locate these to try to locate stone age, ice age stuff. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Joe is already fishing here. How many of these dives have been completed, Flint? Like one or two, right? Like you've barely scratched the surface and just totally missed…

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6. 06 · yt0.762

   And when the ice sheets melted and sea levels rose, a process that was neither gradual nor uniform, but punctuated by dramatic flood pulses, as ice dams failed and glacial lakes discharged catastrophically, the coastal civilization would have been progressively inundated. its physical remains swallowed by water that is now too deep in most places for conventional archaeological survey. We have explored by most estimates less than 20% of the ocean floor in any meaningful detail. What lies beneath the rest is for now beyond our reach. This is where the argument becomes genuinely difficult to res…

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7. 07 · yt0.760

   I've never said that the Sphinx was eroded that this erosion that you're seeing today was all carved by wicking groundwater. That's not what I've said. I've said that that accounts for the erosion at the bottom. That's it. It cannot I want to make this very clear cannot account for the erosion of the body and cannot account for the erosion up at the neck. The the erosion at the neck was caused by windb blown sand and and it has all the characteristics of that but that cannot account for the erosion of the body and is not associated with the with the at the lower sections of the wicking groundw…

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8. 08 · yt0.759

   Well, you have your opportunity to present your evidence to a real archaeologist right now. Want to get started on that? There's the Sahara Desert. A fair bit of archaeology has been done in the Sahara Desert, but we're looking at 9.2 million square kilometers of the Sahara Desert. Tell me how much of the Sahara you think has actually been excavated. Flint by archaeologists. I'd say a bunch of it has been surveyed, including by my dad. No, no, no. How much has How much has actually been excavated? What sort of percent? A lot of sort of desert archaeology does not have excavation. It's eroded a…

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9. 09 · yt0.759

   What do modern archaeologists and geologists say when you present that to them? What do they what's their conclusion? What do they think about that? Well, uh, some of them say, well, there must have been some mistake. Yeah, we did it wrong or something, right? Yeah. You know, like, yeah, there there was a hoax. Yeah. Maybe some Indians brought these things into the mines. But you know, in when I was doing my research for forbidden archaeology, I got in touch with some historians in California who are very expert about that period of time and they said the Indians would not have gone anywhere n…

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10. 10 · yt0.757

    If that is the case, then the oldest layers of one of humanity's first recognized civilizations may lie underwater, inaccessible to conventional excavation. The possibility is not fringe speculation. It has been discussed in mainstream geological and archaeological literature, though it remains difficult to test because underwater archaeology in the Gulf is limited by political, logistical, and financial constraints. Graham Hancock sees these submerged landscapes as the key to a question that has shadowed his work for decades. If an advanced civilization existed during the Ice Age, he argues i…

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