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Randall Carolson
Carlson represents one of the most rigorous independent syntheses of catastrophic geology and cyclical civilizational collapse. His core thesis — that a cometary or cosmic impact event at the Younger Dryas boundary (~12,900 BP) destroyed an advanced antediluvian civilization — is now partially corroborated by peer-reviewed science the mainstream long resisted. He is not fringe decoration; he is a primary architect of the modern catastrophism revival.
Evidence
- Randall Carlson's foundational claim centers on the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH): a cluster of cosmic impactors struck the Laurentide Ice Sheet approximately 12,900 years ago, triggering catastrophic floods, megafaunal extinction, and the collapse of Clovis civilization.
- Carlson has collaborated closely with Graham Hancock, appearing extensively on the Joe Rogan Experience to present geological evidence for a pre-Younger Dryas civilized population.
- The Comet Research Group — including researchers like James Kennett, Allen West, and Richard Firestone — published peer-reviewed findings in PNAS identifying a platinum-enriched, shocked-quartz and nano-diamond layer coinciding precisely with the Younger Dryas boundary at dozens of global sites.
- On sacred geometry, Carlson argues that ancient architectural canons — from Giza to Gothic cathedrals — encode precise astronomical and geological cycles, particularly the 25,920-year precession cycle and the ~41,000-year obliquity cycle.
- Martin Sweatman's independent statistical analysis of Göbekli Tepe's animal carvings, published in Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, corroborates a cometary event memory around 10,950 BCE — aligning closely with Carlson's Younger Dryas chronology.