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 · _intake0.958

   > >> Um not very. I've never been to Washington State, much less that part of the state. >> Well, so I I only went because Randall Carlson agreed to debate me and I

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2. 02 · yt0.637

   I'm sure he doesn't want to uh try to defend what he's saying. And anyway, so the thing that I didn't know anything about that we we t discussed subject matter of the debate and we we settled in on the the Sphinx Gabbecley and the Channel Scablands and I said I didn't know much of the channels scabland. So I contacted Bruce Bourneststead who's got a guide book and I asked if I could if he would take me on a private tour and he said sure but why don't you go to the GSA conference. We've got a 4-day trip with Vic Baker, Richard Wade, Brian Atwater. Um, I mean, these are the big name people in me…

   yt/QsFzkbV8ks0-the-great-sphinx-erosion-and-dating-feat-robert-schneiker/transcript.txt

3. 03 · gutenberg0.616

   I have carefully reconsidered all the points on which my conclusions have been assailed. But I have not to announce a change of opinion on any matter of importance. Such minor oversights as have been detected, either by myself or by my critics, I have, in general silently, corrected: but it is not to be inferred that I agree with the objections which have been made to a passage, in every instance in which I have altered or canceled it. I have often done so, merely that it might not remain a stumbling-block, when the amount of discussion necessary to place the matter in its true light would hav…

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4. 04 · yt0.606

   It's wasn't all that far from where I lived. And I just thought that was not such a hot idea. [Music] Not because I knew anything really a lot about it. He did, but um I really wanted to be in the company of black intellectuals. I thought that would be uh marvelous. I had been taught by some good teachers, some mediocre, but none black. uh never lived in a black neighborhood and I thought this was the best place to be. Um they were interested my family in sending me away to college. They they they promised to fund me for one year, three quarters that they thought they could do. After that, it …

   yt/8eiKYbq8ybk-toni-morrison-3-exclusive-interviews-on-writing-race-and-lit/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.601

   And I should just say people need to understand that the state of Washington is really two states. I meant the nation state, like the whole, the state. Traumatized by states. State power turns out to be tremendously dangerous. It's not that there's not governance that needs to be done, but inevitably it seems to fall into the hands of people who don't do that governance and do something else with that power. But state of Washington is two states. You could say the same thing about the state of Oregon. There's the Western part of the state, the wet part of the state in which Seattle and Tacoma …

   yt/mNh7WmeDUvI-the-washington-state-of-science-the-309th-evolutionary-lens-/transcript.txt

6. 06 · yt0.596

   [Music] well i am delighted to be here with brett weinstein and with heather heing two people that came on the cultural radar screen maybe about five years ago with the evergreen state college situation but have emerged i think in the last five years has really trenchened commentators on all sorts of aspects of the culture so delighted you're here with us today we'll talk about your book a hunter-gatherer's guide to the 21st century and i think lots of other issues maybe where religion and science find some interface i thought we'd start with evergreen state and i don't want to force you for t…

   yt/DbwXe5LhNNA-bishop-barron-presents-heather-heying-and-bret-weinstein-evo/transcript.txt

7. 07 · archive0.595

   So as we walked, we talked together about these things; and so, just as I said at the start, I am not unprepared. If it must be told to you as well, that is what I must do. As for me, whenever I make any speeches on my own about philosophy or listen to others—apart from my belief that I am benefited—how I enjoy it! But whenever the speeches are of another sort, particularly the speeches of the rich and of moneymakers—your kind of talk— then just as I am distressed, so do I pity your comrades, because you believe you are doing something of importance, but in fact it’s all pointless. And perhaps…

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8. 08 · yt0.585

   I guess they just thought, better let him talk and let people just make up their minds about what he's saying. They're intelligent. They'll be able to figure out if they can agree or not agree. It's not going to be the end of the world if he talks. These are some of my works-- "The Forbidden Archaeologist," "Forbidden Archaeology," "Hidden History of the Human Race," "Human Devolution," "My Science, My Religion." Some contact information. And if you do like the kinds of things you've heard today and are interested in hearing more, you may want to come on this cruise where I'm the speaker in Ju…

   yt/DKfGC3P9KoQ-forbidden-archaeology-michael-cremo-talks-at-google/transcript.txt

9. 09 · yt0.584

   Then we went down to his and it was interesting because his was he had been traveling in Tibet and there were these Buddhist prayer walls. And when the the monks found out that he was a geologist, they said, "We have a mystery that we that we cannot understand that the moss never grows on our prayer walls." And so he was intrigued by that. And he looked at the prayer walls and did some preliminary research and couldn't find any reason as to why there would be no moss growing on it. came back. He was at the University of Utah. I don't remember his name. And uh wrote up a grant and got it and we…

   yt/QsFzkbV8ks0-the-great-sphinx-erosion-and-dating-feat-robert-schneiker/transcript.txt

10. 10 · yt0.583

    But I found myself being challenged by a number of things. One was being challenged by beginning to read the history and philosophy of science and reading that the kind of scientific positivism I'd embi wasn't quite as straightforward as I had suggested and also beginning to realize actually that the evidential basis for atheism was much weaker than I had realized and I began to find myself being excited intellectually and stimulated far more than I dared to think by the Christian faith. And so in the end I I came to faith swapping my old faith of atheism for my new one of Christianity. I don'…

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