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 · _intake0.946

   > or comet impacts, they would be remarkable. Even in a world where Graham Hancock had never picked up a pen. And yet the questions Hancock raises do not disappear simply because the answers he

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/hancock/001-or-comet-impacts-they-would-be-remarkable.md

2. 02 · yt0.758

   The sequence that had long anchored our understanding of early civilization agriculture, first then then settlement, then temples, does not hold here. Claus Schmidt said it plainly, "First came the temple, then the city. That inversion is by itself enough to occupy a long night of thought. It suggests that the impulse to create sacred space to build something that reaches past practical need may be older and more fundamental than we assumed. But Graham Hancock looks at the same stones and sees something the excavation reports do not address to his satisfaction. He sees a level of coordination,…

   yt/LQP3jPprCoQ-graham-hancock-s-g-bekli-tepe-theory-the-earliest-monuments-/transcript.txt

3. 03 · yt0.752

   Studies from South America, the Middle East, and Europe, reported finding similar boundary layer signatures. Some scientists who had initially dismissed the hypothesis publicly revised their positions. Mark Defa, a vulcanologist who had criticized the theory, later acknowledged that new data had changed his assessment. Michael Shurmer, the editor of Skeptic magazine and a longtime critic of Graeme Hancock, offered a public apology and conceded that the evidence had become compelling enough to shift his prior assumptions. None of this means the debate is settled. A comprehensive review publishe…

   yt/jD1gamybzVM-ancient-civilizations-and-the-ideas-of-graham-hancock-a-lost/transcript.txt

4. 04 · yt0.751

   Hancock was drawn to Firestone's work, early recognizing in it a mechanism that could explain phenomena he had been investigating for years. The rapid extinction of ice age megapora across North America, including mammoths, mastadons, ground sloths, and American horses, all of which disappear from the fossil record pors at approximately this time. The flood myths that appear in the oral traditions and written literature of cultures on every inhabited continent, describing in strikingly similar terms a catastrophic inundation from which only a small number of survivors escaped, and the clusteri…

   yt/LQP3jPprCoQ-graham-hancock-s-g-bekli-tepe-theory-the-earliest-monuments-/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.743

   Was there an impact? I think there probably was. Again, the proof the the evidence is not conclusive, but it certainly is very suggestive that there was an impact as well. So, um there's a number of researchers, I think Michael Rampino is one particularly who I've read recently, who who really is now thinking that a lot of the the mass extinctions are the result of this perfect storm of events. Now, it certainly is plausible that an hyper velocity impact, one of the effects of that could be extreme volcanism, magma extrusion. That's not so exotic. Likewise, we also have seen evidence now, and …

   yt/EJTeA2RuCDA-what-wiped-out-the-clovis-people/transcript.txt

6. 06 · gutenberg0.741

   On the subject of Induction, the task to be performed was that of generalizing the modes of investigating truth and estimating evidence, by which so many important and recondite laws of nature have, in the various sciences, been aggregated to the stock of human knowledge. That this is not a task free from difficulty may be presumed from the fact that even at a very recent period, eminent writers (among whom it is sufficient to name Archbishop Whately, and the author of a celebrated article on Bacon in the _Edinburgh Review_) have not scrupled to pronounce it impossible.(1) The author has endea…

   gutenberg/PG-27942-a-system-of-logic-ratiocinative-and-inductive/PG-27942.txt

7. 07 · blog0.739

   They present a compelling amount of physical and other evidence of multiple impacts, giant tidal surges, massive rearrangements of the surface of the Earth, overnight mountain-building, as well as a polar shift. However, this begs the question as to how humanity could have lived through a catastrophe of this dimension, even if advanced technology was on hand. If this sort of event occured today we would be hard-pressed to survive it. Allan and Delair's book, however, is academic to a fault, and much better put together and docmented than Velikovsky. I heartily recommend it as a worthy successo…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/ragnarok.md

8. 08 · yt0.739

   Ladies and gentlemen, Graham Hancock and John Anthony West. Thank you. Thank you very much. So, so this is going to take the form of a conversation or perhaps an argument. Um, because John is an argumentative sort of fellow. Uh, and I guess I am too. Um, uh, but we'll we'll see how it goes. Now, I I want to tell you about the first time that I met John Anthony West. Uh, at that time I had begun research on my book Fingerprints of the Gods. and John Anthony West was one of the main reasons I began uh work on the possibility of a lost civilization because there is a lot of woolly nonsense talked…

   yt/hF3oe-0vXWc-the-mysterious-origins-of-civilization-with-john-anthony-wes/transcript.txt

9. 09 · _intake0.735

   If you look closely at the book, he gave a great example of that here using Ancient Egypt by way of analogy; he asked his readers to imagine the results if Egyptian archaeologists of the day had “…visited that country with a firm belief that the banks of the Nile were never peopled by the human race before the beginning of the nineteenth century… it is easy to perceive what extravagant systems they would frame, while under the influence of this delusion, to account for the monuments discovered (there). The sight of the pyramids, obelisks, colossal statues, and ruined temples, would will them w…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/emf-6-quantum-time.md

10. 10 · yt0.734

    So he goes on to say that while most of these impacts occurred over unpopulated unpopulated areas of the globe, there are historical accounts about devastating cosmic catastrophes. According to a number of Chinese records, about 10,000 people were killed in the city of Chiing Yang in 1490 AD due to the breakup of a small asteroid. Then he he goes on to say about a dozen hypervelocity impact craters that date from the holene period that is since the end of the ice age have been discovered to date. The majority of impacts, however, that occurred during this crucial period of societal evolution h…

    yt/skMH6ihjVqg-hyper-velocity-impacts-and-human-civilization-cosmic-encount/transcript.txt