(July 14, 2023 at 8:33 pm)Sicnoo0 Wrote: How do we feel about Billy Carson? Is he a grifter, too?
He's a con-man who has lied for money, and he changed his name to distance himself from felonies he committed in his past.
That being said, I'm curious as to whether or not he believes what he says about ancient Earth and extraterrestrials. I'm also curious about specific examples of his arguments failing to hold water.
He is not an archeologist. There is not one archeologist who thinks that there is one piece of evidence for ancient aliens. So what more do you want?
The ideas of ancient advanced civilizations all have their roots in the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard, who wrote tales of lost civilizations and underground races. Especially in Lovecraft, we can see ideas that the ancient people were a space-faring race that will return from the stars. Lovecraft's Mythos played an important role in the development of fringe history and ufology that were first taken by theosophists and then other cranks.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
