Atlantis is dead

there is something really poetic about being a renowned archaeologist and being named Flint

Hancock doesn’t really need a whole lot of evidence, because he’s mostly talking to people who want to believe.

An archeologist named Flint? The aliens aren't even trying with the simulation anymore 😂😂😂

I used to be hugely into Graham Hancock's work. Then I saw the Stefan Milo video from a few years ago. The argument that food should be all over the world if there was a global civilization ended my belief in Hancock's ideas. Tomatoes and potatoes would not have been isolated to the Americas.

I think the point that hunter-gatherer tribes left a bigger archeological record than a supposed contemporaneous advanced, globe-spanning civilization is pretty damning. In all other cases, the larger the civilization, the more they leave behind, but not for Atlantis apparently 😂

Hancock's 'argument' for the existence of Narnia is basically that we havent checked everybody's wardrobe yet. That is his level of debate now, and his millions of followers will focus their confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance based beliefs on that bundle of straws. As long as we havent retroactively researched every wardrobe, Narnia will always be real to them, instead of a fairytale CS Lewis made up to illustrate his ideas about morality and spirituality and imagination.

Hancock is like the ancient alien people, doesn't care if its true as long as he sells books.

I appreciate the 10 minute summary of this 4 hour debate! 😮

He made an entire 8 episode Netflix series about the existing archeological evidence for this civilization. He said he found possible evidence of this civilization in Indonesia, Mexico, Malta, the Bahamas, Turkey, and the United States. He said the only reason mainstream archeology wouldn't accept his theories wasn't because he had no evidence, but because they were either ignorant or suppressing alternative views. And now he admits none of what he presented was evidence of his theory and actually it's somewhere else in either the Amazon, Sahara, or on the continental shelf.

"Atlantis can only exist in the gaps of our understanding" Dude you just summarized the whole of the pseudo science community and their theories. From the alternative historians to the Alien hunters to the HAARP theory peddlers to even the Flat earthers. Great characterization, I'll be using that in discussions thank you 👍🏼

"The lost civilization I'm talking about is like a black hole, " is one of the funniest things he's ever said

It wasn't archaeologists that disproved Atlantis for me, it was classicists. It's far more convincing that Plato was just writing what was essentially fiction. We have no other source for Atlantis.

Calling the opposing viewpoint 'arrogant' while you're getting lawyered is basically just giving up.

Indiana Jones found Atlantis.

I can't believe Stefan Milo personally sunk the city of Atlantis

I don't need aliens, gods, or supreme civilizations, to use a rock....

When they say that Flint came off as "arrogant," what they mean to say is: 'Flint came off as well researched and correct, and I can't handle that right now, so I'm going to call it arrogance instead.'

Atlantis is a hotel in the Bahamas. How dare you! 😂😂😂

I never understood why people want to believe in things such as Atlantis or ancient aliens while what actually happened in history is just as if not way more fascinating

"it only exist in the gaps in our knowledge" is a big crux of what these folk believe down in their hearts, with or without realizing that