Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Joe Rogan Experience #501 - Randall Carlson" video.

  1. Yes. 99% of the erosion in the American Southwest desert is ALSO from rain (water erosion), despite its usually arid conditions. This guy says that the Sphinx must be over 10,000 years old because there hasn't been rain in Egypt for thousands of years. That's bullshit. It rains there. In fact, it SNOWED there very recently. It was a freak snow, but it did snow. When it doesn't rain very often, and there's no vegetation mantling that limestone, the rate of erosion from a single rain event is very very high. Ask anybody who's been caught in a gully during a cloudburst in Arizona (a very stupid place to be, btw). This guy's really smart, but he either mis-spoke or he's talking half out of his ass. Yes, a sandstorm can quickly erode your face, if you're out in it, but even in desert, it's WATER that does most of the work eroding outcrops. It's why limestone is a cliff-former in deserts. Cap it with some nice sandstone (that erodes, but isn't generally water-soluble), and it'll give you wondrous structures like the Grand Canyon. This doesn't disprove his hypothesis that archaeologists don't have their shit together. Just listen to them arguing with each other about calculated dates in the Bible, or putting dates on a Clovis point (flint arrowheads/spearpoints) in North America. The one thing he DOES get right is the paucity of evidence and the surplus of opinion on these matters. It turns out that a lot of the dates archaeology establishment has accepted for decades (that supposedly disprove the Bible) were wrong, and calculations from solid scholars and unbiased archaeologists are starting to align quite nicely with Biblical writings. I think the Bible and other ancient (sacred) texts DO chronicle some major catastrophes that actually took place. Velikovsky (if he were alive) would tell you that the planets in our solar system have done a bit of wandering in (poorly) recorded (by Bronze-Age primitives) history, especially in the histories that were handed down orally over the generations BEFORE the written word. He claims that Venus and Mars both had near misses with Earth after themselves being knocked out of orbit by meteor strikes, and that mythology records these events. No wonder Mars and Venus are part of Greek/Roman pantheon. I don't believe everything he said, but his alternate history of Earth squares very nicely with the Bible and other ancient texts, and archaeologists are starting to crank out results that are more in line with Biblical claims than they were 30 or 40 years ago. Don't get me wrong. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you the world is 4,000 years old, because it says so in the Bible. That's easily disproved by the mile-deep sediments in the Grand Canyon, which were deposited slowly, over millions of years, under processes we understand very well, occurring in real-time as we speak. You don't get perfectly graded (grains of same size) 1-inch-high foreset beds and tiny ripple marks from rock that was laid down in one cataclysm. If it were all laid down at once, the sediments would be un-graded, which is to say that big chunks and little chunks would be buried simultaneously, and you'd get flood structures which are in evidence all over the world, in spots, but no way in hell did they form miles of perfectly graded and uniformly bedded sandstones that cover 100s or even 1000s of square miles. Also, either one of those two guys in the video could break me in half by accident.
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