Dan Richards

They were expected to bear out the Bible, prove the Bible right.

Then evolution and then Darwin and then it was gradualism.

Prove the Bible wrong.

There is no major global flood.

And gradualism, they assume that everything happens slowly.

There's nothing catastrophic in the record.

And that lasted from the late 1700s all the way up until 1980 when the KT dinosaur killing meteor was accepted.

Before that, there was no such thing as punctuated equilibrium, which is what they call it now.

Which any kid could figure out is the way the fucking world works.

Slow erosion happens on the side of the bank, but sometimes there's a big flood that carves a big chunk of the... I mean, this is no-brainer shit.

Life moves at a steady pace normally, and then every now and again something catastrophic happens.

So my point is that if they think that digging something up is going to change a paradigm that they're expected to maintain, they're not going to fucking dig it up.

There's...

The kind of opposition that they face to overturning paradigms, like the Clovis first thing, like when Flint was on here and he tried to play that one down.

Not only were careers ruined from that, but one thing you'll almost never hear mentioned was Clovis first was version two of this.

Before that, it was the Folsom point and Folsom first.

And many careers were ruined by people that posited that the Americans were people before the Folsom culture.

Then they found the clove.

This is this isn't some that it's not some novel time of, well, you know, there was a scientific debate and a few.

No, no, no.