The writer is an “expert” in things like… movies, music, tv. He clearly knows nothing about the enterprise of science. I don’t know anything about this fellow Hancock, but I do know something about how science progresses, It does not progress by trusting the experts and the “buttoned up” establishment.
One episode of this series focuses on the scablands of eastern Washington. It took many years for people much like Hancock to convince the uniformitarian “experts” that the scablands were shaped by at least one and probably several mega floods. The advocates had to fight tooth and nail against the kind of establishment this idiot media child would trust implicitly. By now they have essentially won the argument, and it is down to details like how many, and where did all the water come from, Montana or Canada or both.
I suspect the “experts” do not want to admit they were just prejudiced against discrepant ideas. They don’t know what Gobeckli Tepe is about either, or the Serpent mound in Ohio, but they have lots of highfalutin opinions, and don’t want to even hear new points of view.
In any case, it is an entraining series, and there is no harm in it. I think Stuart Heritage is the typical Guardian reporter, spewing his own conspiracy theories.
Excellent comment, well done!
Made sense to me the first time I heard the argument and saw some of the data showing that some observed rock damage required supersonic water flows.