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Dan, live and alone on DeDunking, starts from a Babylonian world map and talks about method. A restored fragment on a much copied tablet has been sold as the resting place of Noah’s boat. He thinks the biblical label is what slams the door. Skeptics stop listening, although the object is still a schematic of places and routes. He does not believe the planet ever held enough water to cover every height. A datable find under a stone shows people were there by a certain time. It does not prove nothing older exists. Deep tunnels, with later objects in earlier passages, are his picture. The cold snap impact claim is the case he reaches for most in these fights, and a hollow earth is a view he says he does not hold. Debunking culture, he argues, speaks as if knowledge were more finished than it is. A missing inscription, which he raises at Baalbek, is not a verdict on the builders. A label or a gap in the paperwork should not end the question.
Key points
- A Babylonian map tablet billed as a Noah site is his example of a label that makes skeptics stop listening.
- He rejects a flood deep enough to cover every mountain, while still treating the tablet as a real schematic.
- Finds under a stone give a latest date for activity, not a proof that nothing older is present.
- The cold snap impact claim is the case he cites most, and hollow earth is a view he says he does not hold.
- Debunking culture, he argues, overstates how complete current knowledge is.
- A missing building record, as at Baalbek, is not on its own a verdict about the builders.
Short quotes
that map is the oldest map in the world
Dan, DeDunking on maps floods and debunking
He treats the Babylonian tablet as the oldest map known. Watch at 2:19
it's basically showing you generalized locations one to another
Dan, DeDunking on maps floods and debunking
The drawing, in his reading, is a sketch of places rather than a turn by turn route. Watch at 6:33
there's never been enough water on the planet to cover the whole earth
Dan, DeDunking on maps floods and debunking
A flood over every height would need more water than the planet holds, he says. Watch at 10:53
I'm not quite a believer in the hollow Earth theory
Dan, DeDunking on maps floods and debunking
Hollow earth is one popular idea he says he does not hold. Watch at 44:38
doing the debunker game will over represent the limits of our scientific knowledge
Dan, DeDunking on maps floods and debunking
The debunking posture, he argues, pretends that scientific knowledge is more finished than it is. Watch at 56:14
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