[larrytown]

“You realize that it basically contradicts everything that you’ve been taught about the peopling of North America.”

This is the scientific method - the problem is that people tend to believe, as fact, the first thing they hear/read/are taught on a subject.

Much of what is taught is just the 'best' working theory, subject to additional data being discovered and considered.

[plain talk]

“Much of what is taught is just the ‘best’ working theory, subject to additional data being discovered and considered.”

Yes. We are constantly acquiring new information and learning. That’s how it is supposed to work.