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A review by strong_extraordinary_dreams
The Ancient Alien Question: A New Inquiry Into the Existence, Evidence, and Influence of Ancient Visitors by Philip Coppens
2.0
Some good ideas and points, some good rebuttals of common ancient alien beliefs, a few good claims . . . but all mixed up with jibberish:
- DNA is like a technology . . . becomes "tonnes of bacteria fall to earth from space every day" (I kid you not) . . . becomes "As we have proven, DNA came from an extraterrestrial source"
- the common absolute belief in any nutty ancient text, with "flying" meaning "spaceship", and then arguments built from there
- what someone has "revealed" to them while out of their heads on some concoction in an Amazon rain forest is taken over what "science" believes.
- and what's with this personalised, reified "science" saying "X". A particular paid researcher publishes one or more papers saying X. "Science" saying "X' is just lazy.
Overall, a pretty crappy book. The good bits are maybe worth it.
- DNA is like a technology . . . becomes "tonnes of bacteria fall to earth from space every day" (I kid you not) . . . becomes "As we have proven, DNA came from an extraterrestrial source"
- the common absolute belief in any nutty ancient text, with "flying" meaning "spaceship", and then arguments built from there
- what someone has "revealed" to them while out of their heads on some concoction in an Amazon rain forest is taken over what "science" believes.
- and what's with this personalised, reified "science" saying "X". A particular paid researcher publishes one or more papers saying X. "Science" saying "X' is just lazy.
Overall, a pretty crappy book. The good bits are maybe worth it.