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Ed Barnhart: belief

30 Sept 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America

“I think that one’s pretty easy. It’s the end of the ice age, when the bathtub filled back up.”

— Ed Barnhart

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Speaker
Ed Barnhart
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
30 Sept 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…And one of the things I do obviously wonder about is why- Wonder about is why the flood myth is part of most societies and most religions. I think that one’s pretty easy. It’s the end of the ice age, when the bathtub filled back up. So it’s just the ice age bathtub refilling.…

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