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Re:Göbekli Tepe by snidane on Friday July 03, 2020 @05:20PM (#23727775)
He builds a lot on top of Robert Schoch's Sphinx erosion controversy. Ie that the egyptian sphinx must be much older than currently estimated because of geological findings of erosion around it is water based, not wind based.

These "cranks" provide an explanation. How do "non-crank" tradition archeologist explain this?

Just because somebody exaggerates means that he is a crank? In a world of ignorants perhaps the only option to be heard is to develop a fan base and exaggerate. That doesn't invalidate the few hypotheses presented by "cranks" which seem closer to be believable than mainstream explanations.

https://www.robertschoch.com/sphinx.html

https://youtu.be/zSjnvlDWwrE

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Re:Göbekli Tepe by mod on Friday July 03, 2020 @05:32PM (#23727849)
Every genius ahead of his time starts out as a crank.

I'm not really speaking about this guy, I'm not at all qualified to say, but I think it's good we have people thinking differently from the crowd.

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Re:Göbekli Tepe by mellosouls on Friday July 03, 2020 @07:12PM (#23728445)
Every genius ahead of his time starts out as a crank.

Also, and far more often, every crank starts out as a crank.

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Re:Göbekli Tepe by andrewflnr on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:53PM (#23729052)
Yes, but the point is not that being a crank is a guarantee of truth. The point is that it's not a guarantee of being wrong either. You have to look at the evidence either way.

Ed: if you care, I mean. I'm the last person to deny the right to just not take a position on a non-actionable topic.

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Re:Göbekli Tepe by objektif on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:54PM (#23729055)
Also much more often every tenured professor starts as a conformist PhD student. Then some becomes cranks.
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Re:Göbekli Tepe by mellosouls on Friday July 03, 2020 @07:40PM (#23728634)
I remember watching a BBC (?) documentary with (I think) Schoch and Hancock, and Schoch being very reasonable and accommodating to Hancock with respect to the possibly scientific foundations of Hancock's theories about the extended age of the Sphinx until it got beyond that to the idea of coded messages etc:

"...aaaand that's where we part company..."

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