Why JJ Redick questions existence of dinosaurs

Nina Mandell | USA TODAY Sports

JJ Redick hosted Kyrie Irving on his podcast and we learned that he sympathizes with the uproar of Irving's question about the earth being round because he may not believe in dinosaurs.

To be clear, he starts this by saying "I'm wrong on this. I know I'm wrong on this."

But then he continues:

But I'm not entirely convinced dinosaurs existed. I'm not. I've come across some weird websites in my Google searches. For instance, the word dinosaur. It didn't exist until like 1842. There was no word for dinosaur. And then all of a sudden in the next 15-20 years, after a British scientist comes up with this word dinosaur and describes it in a medical journal, people started finding fossils. And I'm thinking to myself alright, humans we've been here since 10,000 BC. We've been roaming the earth, we've had multiple empires all over the world … and all that time we didn't find any fossils until 150 years ago? It makes you think!"

Irving chimed in that he's with him on that and then the discussion continues.

Before that, Irving explained how he got onto the whole flat earth thing in the first place:

"What I actually said it though - I had been watching a whole bunch of Instagram videos - meaning like I had specific pages on Instagram that were 'the truth given to you' and videos like 'this is the flat earth and the horizon evens out only on the flat earth' and I didn't do as much research as I (should have) to say something like that. And if you think about the actual intent behind it was: Do your own research."

But perhaps the worst part of the podcast was when Redick spoke about the controversial documentary Loose Change, which throws out theories about 9/11 which have been widely debunked.

"Have you seen Loose Change? That's an hour-long documentary on 9/11?" Redick asks. "It's certainly though-provoking. I don't necessarily think 9/11 was an inside job but there's some things that I question. But I question a lot of things. I think that's good to question a lot of things."

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