If you are a von Daniken fan, if you are a Velikovsky fan, then you’ll just love this book for the authors Alan and Sally Landsburg are von Daniken wannabees.
Their basic premise is that humans are the result of extra-terrestrial immortals that came to earth thousands of years ago as colonists and that we have lost their secrets of immortality over the ages.
They are due to return on Christmas eve 2011.
The evidence for most of this exists only between the ears of the authors.
Like von Daniken the book is replete with errors of logic, errors of fact and with improbable leaps of faith.
He thinks the ancient Mayans did cardiac transplantation.
He is an ardent fan of pyramid power, vaguely described as a mysterious biocosmic energy.
A careful reading of the book yields numerous contradictions.
He thinks he sees a high water mark on the side of the pyramid made by Noah’s flood, despite the fact that in the 9th century CE the limestone facing was removed from the pyramid to build Cairo’s mosques.
He says that the Great Pyramid was completely empty, not even a kernel of food, and then a page later says that 5,000 year old grain found in the pyramid immediately sprouted.
He claims that dead animals in the pyramid naturally mummify, that the flesh does not decay.
This has been experimentally shown to be false, of course.
Peter G.Roode.
M.D. a_skeptic@hotmail.com