Mind Helping Me Break This Down?

[rexbeccarox]

What do you guys think of the following article?

Mankind's Forbidden History Holds the Answer for the "Missing Link"

Today there exists many alternative theories that aim to explain mankind’s speedy evolution. The Ancient Astronaut Theory is perhaps one of the most controversial of the bunch. This theory takes researchers back in time to the cradle of civilization in the Middle-East, the ancient land of Mesopotamia. The Sumerian Cuneiform tablets, uncovered in the 17th century, provide modern man with a new understanding of our history.

This lost knowledge has been slow to make its way into mainstream thought and is just now beginning to air on television on both the History and Discovery Channels. Accurately decoding the complicated language of the past has taken archaeologists many decades, but fortunately today these ancient scriptures have come to light for all the public to view.

[FatAndFaithless]

Uh..well.. Just from the source alone, it's a site that is purely anti-vax hysteria, anti-GMO propagandistic, promotes drinking water as a healer of disease, seems to push perpetual motion machines as possible, and has an entire section of the website dedicated to "The New World Order". Just from that, this source seems like a grab bag of the most fanatical pseudoscience and conspiracy theories smashed together under a sleek UI and vaguely hippy-sounding name.

As to the article itself, I'm not sure if the authors understand the first thing about evolution (or anything..at all..in any field..) or how history works (saying "the answer is contained in these unexamined sources, we haven't examined them but we're going to tell you the answer anyway").

I'm going to do some digging on the site and see if they have an article on illuminati lizard CEO's as well.

EDIT: here's a couple cute ones I've found.
1) Alien-Human Battle of 1979 in New Mexico
http://earthweareone.com/alien-human-bat...er-videos/

2) At Least 4 Known Alien Species Have Been Visiting Earth For Thousands Of Years
http://earthweareone.com/at-least-4-know...e-whistle/

[abaris]

Honestly becca, when I read this...

Access to scripts such as the Book of Enoch, the Nag Hamadi Gospels, the Book of Jubilees, among other historical texts

... I was tempted to not read any further. Calling these texts historical is as nutty as it gets. Also the mention of the History and Discovery Channel airing shit like this isn't out of the ordinary. Neither the History channel nor the Discovery Channel are doing any research these days. I've watched History channel documentaries where I wanted to crawl into my tv to grab and murder the person responsible for the obvious bullshit.

It's just another lofty theory to smuggle some kind of god concept and sell pseudo as actual science.

[rexbeccarox]

That's cool, guys! Break it down! I'm just curious what everyone thinks. I'm not promoting the article as my own opinion.

[Jackalope]

That's cool, guys! Break it down! I'm just curious what everyone thinks. I'm not promoting the article as my own opinion.

I don't think I need to elaborate.

[abaris]

It's obviously the Daeniken shit taken to a new level. When I was a child in the 70ies I found Daeniken very entertaining and even worth considering. But then again, my knowledge on space travel was based on watching Star Trek back then.

Ah, yes, the author "a fellow soul searcher" according to his self description also had to add the "forbidden knowledge" as if there's some agency keeping us from the real discoveries.

[Alex K]

I stopped at "missing link". There is no such thing in evolutionary science, it's a popular fable from the 19th century, and anyone who uses it is a crank.

[rexbeccarox]

How to Argue with an Ancient Astronaut Theorist

[robvalue]

God I hate pseudo science! Argh! Any idiot can be an expert in it.

[Alex K]

God I hate pseudo science! Argh! Any idiot can be an expert in it.

As I've said before, it's such an intellectually lazy approach.