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Happy editing! Cheers, Doug Weller talk 16:19, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
Cue geologist Dr. Antonio Zamora,
Did you research him? He's not a geologist. Doug Weller talk 16:33, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
- I confess that I had not. I was a grad student in both history and anthropology, with extensive classes in cartography to supplement my studies.
- After listening to several of his videos and his careful, methodical narration, made an assumption. Per your suggestion, I looked him up. I misspoke about his Ph.D. He does, however, possess degrees in chemistry, computer science, and computational linguistics, been a consultant, and has done studies in geology, astronomy, and paleobotany. He is also the author of at least three non-fiction books on the formation of the Carolina Bays; he continues to make his case that the bays were affected by aerial bombardment of ice ejecta, and provides evidence to that effect. One book is titled, "The Neglected Carolina Bays: Ubiquitous Geological Evidence of a Cataclysm" (2020). I am impressed by his credentials. His video on the South Saginaw Bay crater is well within his other research. I think Zamora is academically credible.
- My main argument is that the general scientific community accepts three possible causes for megafauna extinction – overkill, climate, or asteroid impact. Yet the last section of the main body presents only presents overkill as a cause for extinction, by its wording it implies that overkill is accepted fact – which it is not. And, despite growing evidence, the asteroid(s) having both wiped out 38 (some say 37) megafauna species in North America, but also triggered onset of the Younger Dryas and climate change, combined with hunting in a much less productive environments killed megafauna living in other continents. Yet the evidence for the asteroid impact still routinely continues to be ignored.
- The following article compares overkill versus climate in articles over several years. Asteroids are pointedly not mentioned at all.
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6202698/
- DTavona (talk) 15:12, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
- He published the book you mention above himself. As he did "Killer Comet - What the Carolina Bays tell us"That alone raises grave doubts about his expeertise. Also "Solving the Mystery of the Carolina Bays " published by his own company. What a name! The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis is debunke and fringe. Doug Weller talk 15:45, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
- Ssorry - you must see his website!. Doug Weller talk 15:46, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
- You say the asteroid impact hypothesis is debunked and fringe. Isn't it possible that 2P/Encke comet broke up not 10,000 years ago, but rather 12,800 years ago? Isn't that a possible impact source? I find it odd that some of those who deny it happened, say that even if there was an impact, it was so slow and/or so small it didn't do anything. Really? I think the debate isn't as settled as academics would rather insist we believe it to be. And there is the possibility of future discoveries affecting current theories.
- Humans and megafauna lived beside each other for at least ten thousand years. The footprints at White Sands, NM, prove humans didn't just arrive 13,000 years ago. Longer, if Dillehay is right about his site in Chile being 32,000 years old. How does overkill explain what becomes a sudden human behavior change that affected over thirty species?
- Lastly, even if we discount the asteroid theory, surely you will agree climate change is a viable explanation for extinction? Again, climate change is not even mentioned as a possible extinction cause in the main body, and through word choice, implies overkill is settled fact.
- DTavona (talk) 17:51, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
- He published the book you mention above himself. As he did "Killer Comet - What the Carolina Bays tell us"That alone raises grave doubts about his expeertise. Also "Solving the Mystery of the Carolina Bays " published by his own company. What a name! The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis is debunke and fringe. Doug Weller talk 15:45, 11 September 2025 (UTC)