A sequel to № 252 Ancient Alien Astronauts

Were there ancient human civilizations?

Joe Rogan's interviews with Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock inspired this episode

Younger Dryas period - temperature dropped, mass extinctions, sea levels changed.

Frozen wooly mammoths with plants frozen in their stomachs: temperatures dropped fast enough to freeze a mammoth and stop it's stomach from digesting: within 10 hours

If humanity has existed for 200,000 years, why did civilization only emerge 6000-7000 years ago? After a cataclysm?

Maybe prehistoric humans built the Pyramids, not the Egyptians. There is water damage on the Sphinx, with not enough water in the area in recorded history to cause it.

Hieroglyphics in the pyramids that look like airplanes and helicopters.

Plato records Atlantis sunk at the end of the Younger Dryas period, 11 thousand years ago.

Maybe Genesis is a mythic history. The Flood and Tower of Babel are end-of-civilization cataclysms. Maybe the Flood narratives are remembering the Younger Dryas sea levels rising.

How would the existence of ancient civilizations affect theology?

• Does Genesis compress that history into myth?
• Does Genesis start with recent humanity (last 6000-7000 years)?
• Is history a cycle, Genesis through Revelation telling a continuing story of fall, redemption, apocalypse?

Asteroids will hit earth again. If we want humanity to survive, we must be adaptable and become interplanetary.