Ancient Technology & Modern Deception

Mining for Iron Ore It is difficult to conjecture how men first came to know and use iron; for it is impossible to suppose they would of themselves think of digging the ore out of the mine, and preparing it for smelting, before they knew what would be the result. On the other hand, we have the less reason to suppose this discovery the effect of any accidental fire, as mines are only formed in barren places, bare of trees and plants; so that it looks as if nature had taken pains to keep that fatal secret from us. There remains, therefore, only the extraordinary accident of some volcano which, by ejecting metallic substances already in fusion, suggested to the spectators the idea of imitating the natural operation. nd we must further conceive them as possessed of uncommon courage and foresight, to undertake so laborious a work, with so distant a prospect of drawing advantage from it; yet these !ualities are united only in minds more advanced than we can suppose those of these first discoverers to have been " J. J. Rousseau (Origins of Ine!uality) The Great Mines of Asturia in Northwestern Spain Caesar Augustus had an entire mountain (Las Medulas) destroyed and reduced to rubble, by water from nearby lakes. he rubble was then carefully sifted for gold. Augustus used thousands of sla!es to first dig out a com"le# network of tunnels and labyrinths beneath the mountain. $ach channel would ha!e carried o!er %& million gallons of water a day. '!er (&& years they mo!ed countless billions of tons of soil, and e#tracted well o!er )& million ounces of gold, worth at least *( billion dollars today. +n the ) rd Century A,, the site was abandoned. Fraudulent Science -rocks are presumed to be the same age as fossils found in those rocks, having been laid down at the same time. Then, by circular reasoning, it is also decided that the fossils are the same age as the rocks. Thus, speaking generally, the geologists look to the biologists, and the biologists accept the geologists# virtual infallibility, with neither school sufficiently reali$ing the circularity involved%&ating of

fossils by rocks, and rocks by fossils is demonstrably unreliable . Clifford /ilson (The 'hariots (till 'rash) )here did our *aleolithic ancestors ac!uire the knowledge and skills to breed wild plants into food crops while also constructing planned cities+ ,ow did they achieve an exacting command of the principles of civil engineering as exhibited in (umeria and the ,arrappan civili$ation of the Indus -alley+ ,ow did humans go from mud huts and collecting leafy plants to building $iggurats, flush toilets, public bathhouses ./ohenjo &aro0, making bread in ovens, and inventing process metallurgy seemingly overnight+ In plain language, where is the proof " the missing links " demonstrating your .official science0 theories are confirmed in the archaeological record and meet simple standards of logic and commonsense+ . Clifford /ilson (The 'hariots (till 'rash) Re ealed! world"s oldest co#puter +t looks like a hea" of rubbish, feels like flaky "astry and has been linked to aliens. 0or decades, scientists ha!e "u11led o!er the com"le# collection of cogs, wheels and dials seen as the most so"histicated ob2ect from anti3uity, writes 4elena 5mith. 6ut *&( years after the disco!ery of the calcium. encrusted bron1e mechanism on the ocean floor, hidden inscri"tions show that it is the world7s oldest com"uter, used to ma" the motions of the sun, moon and "lanets. 7/e7re !ery close to unlocking the secrets,7 says 8eno"hon Moussas, an astro"hysicist with a Anglo.9reek team researching the de!ice. 7+t7s like a "u11le concerning astronomical and mathematical knowledge.7 :nown as the Antikythera mechanism and made before the birth of Christ, the instrument was found by s"onge di!ers amid the wreckage of a cargo shi" that sunk off the tiny island of Antikythera in ;&6C. o date, no other a""ears to ha!e sur!i!ed. 76ron1e ob2ects like these would ha!e been recycled, but being in dee" water it was out of reach of the scra".man and we had the luck to disco!er it,7 said Michael /right, a former curator at London7s 5cience Museum. 4e said the a""aratus was the best "roof yet of how technologically ad!anced the ancients were. 7 he skill with which it was made shows a le!el of instrument. making not sur"assed until the Renaissance. +t really is the first hard e!idence of their interest in mechanical gadgets, ability to make them and the "re"aredness of somebody to "ay for them.7 0or years scholars had surmised that the ob2ect was an astronomical show"iece, na!igational instrument or rich man7s toy. he Roman Cicero described the de!ice as being for 7after.dinner entertainment7. 6ut many e#"erts say it could change how the history of science is written. 7+n many ways, it was the first analogue com"uter,7 said <rofessor heodosios assios of the =ational echnical >ni!ersity of Athens. 7+t will change the way we look at the ancients7 technological achie!ements.7

. 4elena 5mith (htt"?@@obser!er.guardian.co.uk@world@story@&,,*;%A()(,&&.html) $arly Astrono#ical %&o#puter' Found to (e Technically &o#ple) A com"uter in anti3uity would seem to be an anachronism, like Athena ordering takeout on her cell"hone. 6ut a century ago, "ieces of a strange mechanism with bron1e gears and dials were reco!ered from an ancient shi"wreck off the coast of 9reece. 4istorians of science concluded that this was an instrument that calculated and illustrated astronomical information, "articularly "hases of the Moon and "lanetary motions, in the second century 6.C. he instrument, the Antikythera Mechanism, sometimes called the worldBs first com"uter, has now been e#amined with the latest in high.resolution imaging systems and three.dimensional 8.ray tomogra"hy. A team of 6ritish, 9reek and American researchers deci"hered inscri"tions and reconstructed the gear functions, re!ealing Can une#"ected degree of technical so"histication for the "eriod,D it said. he researchers, led by the mathematician and filmmaker ony 0reeth and the astronomer Mike 9. $dmunds, both of the >ni!ersity of Cardiff, /ales, are re"orting their results today in the 2ournal =ature. hey said their findings showed that the inscri"tions related to lunar.solar motions, and the gears were a re"resentation of the irregularities of the MoonBs orbital course, as theori1ed by the astronomer 4i""archos. hey established the date of the mechanism at *%&.*&& 6.C. he Roman shi" carrying the artifacts sank off the island of Antikythera about E% 6.C. 5ome e!idence suggests it had sailed from Rhodes. he researchers said that 4i""archos, who li!ed on Rhodes, might ha!e had a hand in designing the de!ice. +n another =ature article, a scholar not in!ol!ed in the research, 0ranFois Charette of the >ni!ersity of Munich museum, in 9ermany, said the new inter"retation of the mechanism Cis highly seducti!e and con!incing in all of its details.D +t is not the last word, he said, Cbut it does "ro!ide a new standard, and a wealth of fresh data, for future research.D echnology historians say the instrument is technically more com"le# than any known for at least a millennium afterward. $arlier e#aminations of the instrument, mainly in the *GH&s by ,erek J. de 5olla <rice, a Iale historian who died in *G;), led to similar findings, but they were generally dis"uted or ignored. he hand.o"erated mechanism, "resumably used in "re"aring calendars for "lanting and har!esting and fi#ing religious festi!als, had at least )&, "ossibly )H, hand.cut bron1e gear.wheels, the researchers said. A "in.and.slot de!ice connecting two gear.wheels induced !ariations in the re"resentation of lunar

motions according to the 4i""archos model of the MoonBs elli"tical orbit around $arth. he numbers of teeth in the gears dictated the functions of the mechanism. he %).tooth count of certain gears, the team said, was C"owerful confirmation of our "ro"osed model of 4i""archosB lunar theory.D he detailed imaging re!ealed more than twice the inscri"tions recogni1ed earlier. 5ome of these a""eared to relate to "lanetary and lunar motions. <erha"s, the team said, the mechanism also had gearings to "redict the "ositions of known "lanets. ,r. Charette noted that more than *,&&& years ela"sed before instruments of such com"le#ity are known to ha!e re.emerged. A few artifacts and some Arabic te#ts suggest that sim"ler geared calendrical de!ices had e#isted, "articularly in 6aghdad around A.,. G&&. +t seems clear, he said, that Cmuch of the mind.boggling technological so"histication a!ailable in some "arts of the 4ellenistic and 9reco.Roman world was sim"ly not transmitted further.D C he gear.wheel, in this case,D he added, Chad to be rein!ented.D . by John =oble /ilford

A *re+,istoric Nuclear -ar. Reflections on -orlds (efore Our Own /y (rad Steiger + find myself now in the se!enth decade of life still asking two 3uestions that in one way or another the great ma2ority of my *E% "ublished books ha!e sought to answer? *.) /ho are we as a s"eciesJ (.) /hat is our destinyJ he basic reason that + wrote )orlds 1efore Our Own (9.<. <utnamKs 5ons, *GH;L Anomalist 6ooks, (&&H) is that + ha!e always found it incredible that such so"histicated "eo"le as we 2udge oursel!es to be, do not really know who we are. Archaeologists, anthro"ologists, and !arious academicians who "lay the Morigins of ManM game, reluctantly and only occasionally acknowledge instances where uni3ue skeletal and cultural e!idence from the "rehistoric record suddenly a""ear long before they should .. and in "laces where they should not. hese irritating artifacts destroy the orderly e!olutionary line that academia has for so long "resented to the "ublic. Conse3uently, such data ha!e been largely left buried in site re"orts, forgotten storage rooms, and dusty archi!es where one sus"ects that there is a great deal of su""ressed, ignored, and mis"laced "re.historical cultural e!idence that would alter the established inter"retations of human origins and "ro!ide us with a much clearer definition of what it means to be human. here is now a basic academic consensus that the MhomoM lineage goes back at least three million years, and that an ancestor of modern man e!ol!ed about one million years ago. ,omo (apiens, the Mthinking man,M (our own s"ecies), became the dominant "lanetary life form on a worldwide basis, about A&,&&& years ago. +t is difficult enough to e#"lain the sudden a""earance of ,omo (apiens at that time, but it is an e!en more com"le# 3uestion to "onder why =eanderthal and Cro.Magnon man corres"ondingly disa""eared. And academic warfare rages unceasingly o!er whether or not =eanderthal and our ancestors were two se"arate s"ecies or whether they interbred. And 2ust as scientists are adding to a growing body of e!idence that humankind de!elo"ed in Africa, a 4ungarian e#ca!ation surrenders a ,omo (apiens skull fragment in a conte#t more than E&&,&&& years out of alignment with the acce"ted calendar of man7s migrations across the "lanet. 4ominid fossils are unearthed in ,manisi, 9eorgia, indicati!e of *.HH million years oldL and a hominid tooth found in =iocene de"osits near the Maritsa Ri!er in 6ulgaria is dated at se!en million years old. /hat ha""ens to ,arwinian e!olution when there are such sites as the one in Australia, which yielded 4omo 5a"iens (modern man), 4omo erectus (our million.year.old ancestor), and =eanderthal (our 5tone Age cousin) in what a""ears to be a contem"oraneous en!ironmentJ hen there is the abun site where 4omo 5a"iens fragments were found in strata below (which means older than) classic =eanderthal bones. +n August (&&H, scientists dating

fossils found in :enya challenged the con!entional !iew that ,omo ,abilis (*.AA million years) and ,omo erectus (*.%% million years) e!ol!ed one after the other. ,ating of new fossil e!idence re!ealed that the two s"ecies li!ed side by side in Africa for almost half a million years. 5omewhere, in what would a""ear to be a biological and cultural free.for.all, there must lie the answer to that most im"ortant 3uestion? )ho are we+ 6ut 2ust as we are trying our best to fit skeletal fragments together in a manner that will be found acce"table to what we belie!e we know about our origins, foot"rints are being found in stone, which, if they are what they a""ear to be, will make a total shambles of our acce"ted e!olutionary calendar. +n <ershing County, =e!ada, a shoe "rint was found in riassic limestone, strata indicati!e of A&& million years, in which the fossili1ed e!idence clearly re!ealed finely wrought double.stitching in the seams. $arly in *GH%, ,r. 5tanley Rhine of the >ni!ersity of =ew Me#ico announced his disco!ery of human.like foot"rints in strata indicati!e of A& million years old. A few months before, a similar find was made in :enton, 'klahoma. At almost the same time, a disco!ery of a foot"rint in stone was re!ealed in north.central /isconsin. +n ,eath Nalley, there is am"le fossil and skeletal e!idence to indicate that the desolate area was once a tro"ical 9arden of $den where a race of giants li!ed and fed themsel!es with "alatable foods taken from the local lakes and forests. o s"eak of a race of "rehistoric giants in what is now the desert sands of ,eath Nalley is simultaneously to refute the doctrine which decrees that man is a relati!e newcomer to the =orth and 5outh American continents. /hile on the one hand, new radiocarbon dates demonstrate that the 6ering Land 6ridge and Cordilleran +ce Corridor were not "assable until G&&& years ago, an increasing amount of "hysical e!idence indicates that man was surely in this hemis"here much earlier than that recent date. 0or one thing, corn, an American contribution to the dinner tables of the world, is said to be, at G&&& years, our oldest domesticated seed cro". 5ome agriculturist had to be in the Americas more than G&&& years ago in order to domesticate the seed. Ancient s3uash seeds, "eanuts, and cotton balls dated at ;,%&& years old found in <eruBs =anchoc Nalley constitute additional e!idence that =ew /orld farming was well established. Conclusi!e "roof that such ancient farmers did e#ist in the Americas was offered when a 4umble 'il Com"any drill brought u" Me#ican corn "ollen that was more than ;&,&&& years old. he anomalous +ndian blood seration and dentition, and the geogra"hic distribution of the American +ndian, demands an im"ossible genetic time

scale in which to transform Asiatic immigrants to distincti!e =ew /orld inhabitants. $!en if we attem"t to kee" some kind of "eace with the acce"ted theories of =ew /orld habitation, we must grant more e!olution in A&,&&& years in =orth America than that which took "lace in more than one million years in $uro"e, Africa, and Asia. 5kulls found in California, which are clearly those of American +ndians, ha!e been dated at %&,&&& years old. 6ut we are left with another mystery. A *A&,&&& year old American +ndian ty"e skull (!ia metric analysis) has been found at an +ranian e#ca!ation site. /hat of the lost Amerindian ci!ili1ation of Cahokia, com"lete with "yramids and a great wallJ 'ne site, near the "resent city of 5t. Louis, may ha!e contained a metro"olis of more than (%&,&&& =orth American +ndians. And who constructed the mysterious se!en.mile walls of the 6erkeley and 'akland, California, hillsJ And which "re.Mayan "eo"les engineered an elaborate waterworks in Iucatan to irrigate cro"s o!er (&&& years agoJ he Caracol ower at Chichen +t1a is a remarkable Mesoamerican obser!atory that seems to ha!e correlated its findings with similar sites in =orth America, including Mesa Nerde, /ichita, and Chaco Canyon. 'ne of the most heretical theories that + suggest in )orlds 1efore Our Own is that the cradle of ci!ili1ation might "ossibly ha!e tra!eled from the so.called =ew /orld to the 'ld. =ow, in ,ecember (&&H, years after Ruth 5hady 5olis found the ancient city of Caral, <eru, scientists ha!e acce"ted the carbon dating of (,E(H 6.C.$., thereby establishing the ci!ili1ation in 5outh America to be much older than the 4ara""a Nalley towns and the "yramids of $gy"t. Caral must now be recogni1ed as Cthe mother of all ci!ili1ations,D the missing link of archaeology, the Mother City. 5cientific knowledge has seemingly been "ri1ed by the inhabitants of e!ery culture, known and unknown. Rock engra!ings, which may be as old as E& million years, de"ict in ste".by.ste" illustrations an entire heart.trans"lant o"eration and a Cesarean section. he ancient $gy"tians used the e3ui!alent of contrace"ti!e 2elly and had urine "regnancy tests. he cement used in filling Mayan dental ca!ities still holds after *%&& years. =o fabric is su""osed to ha!e been found until $gy"t "roduced cloth material %&&& years ago. 4ow, then, can we deal with the Russian site which "ro!ides s"indle whorls and "atterned fabric designs more than ;&,&&& years oldJ =ot only did the ancient 6abylonians a""ear to use sul"hur matches, but they had a technology so"histicated enough to em"loy com"le# electrochemical battery cells with wiring. here is also e!idence of electric batteries and electrolysis in ancient $gy"t, +ndia, and 5wahililand.

Remains of a metal.working factory of o!er (&& furnaces was found at what is now Med1amor in Russian Armenia. Although a tem"erature of o!er *H;& degrees is re3uired to melt "latinum, some "re.+ncan "eo"les in <eru were making ob2ects of the metal. $!en today the "rocess of e#tracting aluminium from bau#ite is a com"licated "rocedure, but Chou Chu, famous general of the sin era ((E%.)*E A.,.), was interred with aluminium belt fasteners on his burial costume. Car!ed bones, chalk, stones, together with what would a""ear to be greatly ornamented 77coins,M ha!e been brought u" from great de"ths during well. drilling o"erations. A strange, im"rinted slab was found in a coal mine. he artefact was decorated with diamond.sha"ed s3uares with the face of an old man in each 77bo#.M +n another coal.mine disco!ery, miners found smooth, "olished concrete blocks which formed a solid wall. According to one miner7s testimony. he chi""ed one block o"en only to find the standard mi#ture of sand and cement that makes u" most ty"ical building blocks of today. A gold necklace was found embedded in a lum" of coal. A metal s"ike was disco!ered in a sil!er mine in <eru. An iron im"lement was found in a 5cottish coal.bed. $stimated to be millions of years older than man is belie!ed to ha!e e#isted. A metal, bell.sha"ed !essel, inlaid with a sil!er floral design was blasted out of solid rock near ,orchester, Massachusetts. wo hy"otheses may e#"lain the "resence of these "er"le#ing artefacts? *) that they were manufactured by an ad!anced ci!ili1ation on $arth which, due either to natural or technological catastro"he, was destroyed before our world7s own genesisL () that they are !estiges of a highly technological ci!ili1ation of e#traterrestrial origin, which !isited this "lanet millions of years ago, lea!ing behind !arious artefacts. $!en if a highly ad!anced e#traterrestrial race might ha!e !isited this "lanet in "rehistoric times, it seems unlikely such common, e!eryday items as nails, necklaces, buckles and !ases would ha!e been carried aboard a s"acecraft de"osited in such widely se"arated areasL for such artefacts ha!e been found in =orth and 5outh America, 9reat 6ritain, the whole of $uro"e, Africa, Asia, and the Mid.$ast. +n s"ite of the general un"o"ularity of catastro"hism, there does seem to be a number of recently disco!ered M"roofsM of ancient cataclysmic changes in the $arth7s crust which may account for the nearly total disa""earance of these "rehistoric worlds. 9eological e!idence indicates that these changes were both sudden and drastic might ha!e com"letely o!erwhelmed and destroyed the early inhabitants and their cultures. <erha"s the most "otentially mind.boggling e!idence of an ad!anced "rehistoric technology that might ha!e blown its "arent.culture away is to be found in those sites which ostensibly bear mute e!idence of "rehistoric nuclear warfare. Large areas of fused green glass and !itrified cities ha!e been found dee" in the strata of archaeological digs at <ierrelatte in 9abon, AfricaL the $u"hrates

NalleyL the 5ahara ,esertL the 9obi ,esertL +ra3L the Mo2a!e ,esertL 5cotlandL the 'ld and Middle :ingdoms of $gy"tL and south.central urkey. +n contem"orary times, such material as fused green glass has only been known at nuclear testing sites (where the sand had melted to form the substance). +t is 3uite unsettling to some to consider it "ossible that these sites "ro!ide e!idence of a "rehistoric nuclear war. At the same time, scientists ha!e found a number of uranium de"osits that a""ear to ha!e been mined or de"leted in anti3uity. +f it is "ossible that nuclear annihilation of a global ci!ili1ation did occur in "rehistoric times, it seems e!en more urgent to learn who we really are before we find oursel!es doomed to re"eat the lessons left to us, by a world before our own. Darwinists S0uir# 1nder Spotlight (An +nter!iew with <hilli" $. Johnson) his article is re"rinted from an inter!iew with 'iti$en /aga$ine, January *GG(. <hilli" Johnson has been a law "rofessor at the >ni!ersity of California at 6erkeley for more than (& years. As an academic lawyer, one of Johnson7s s"ecialties is Manaly1ing the logic of arguments and identifying the assum"tions that lie behind those arguments.M A few years ago he began to sus"ect that ,arwinism, far from being an ob2ecti!e fact, was little more than a "hiloso"hical "osition dressed u" as science..and "oor science at that. /anting to see whether his initial im"ression was correct, Johnson decided to take a closer look at the arguments, e!idence and assum"tions underlying contem"orary ,arwinism. he result of his in!estigation is ,arwin on rial, a contro!ersial new book that challenges not only ,arwinism but the "hiloso"hical mindset that sustains it. /hen did you first become aware that ,arwinism was in trouble as a scientific theoryJ + had been !aguely aware that there were "roblems, but +7d ne!er had any intention of taking u" the sub2ect seriously or in detail until the *G;H.;; academic year, when + was a !isiting "rofessor in London. $!ery day on the way to my office + ha""ened to go by a large bookstore de!oted to science. + "icked u" one book after another and became increasingly fascinated with the ob!ious difficulties in the ,arwinist case..difficulties that were being e!aded by tricky rhetoric and em"hatic re"etition. + then began del!ing into the "rofessional literature, es"ecially in scientific 2ournals such as =ature and 5cience. At e!ery ste", what + found was a failure of the e!idence to be in accord with the theory. /hat was it that initially made you sus"ect that ,arwinism was more "hiloso"hy than hard scienceJ +t was the way my scientific colleagues res"onded when + asked the hard 3uestions. +nstead of taking the intellectual 3uestions seriously and res"onding to them, they would answer with all sorts of e!asions and !ague language, making it im"ossible to discuss the real ob2ections to ,arwinism.

his is the way "eo"le talk when they7re trying !ery hard not to understand something. Another ti".off was the shar" contrast + noticed between the e#tremely dogmatic tone that ,arwinists use when addressing the general "ublic and the occasional frank acknowledgments, in scientific circles, of serious "roblems with the theory. 0or e#am"le, + would read 5te"hen Jay 9ould telling the scientific world that ,arwinism was effecti!ely dead as a theory. And then in the "o"ular literature, + would read 9ould and other scientific writers saying that ,arwinism was fundamentally healthy, and that scientists had the remaining "roblems well under control. here was a contradiction here, and it looked as though there was an effort to kee" the outside world from becoming aware of the serious intellectual difficulties. /hat are some of the intellectual difficultiesJ Can you gi!e an e#am"leJ he most im"ortant is the fossil "roblem, because this is a direct record of the history of life on earth. +f ,arwinism were true, you would e#"ect the fossil e!idence to contain many e#am"les of ,arwinian e!olution. Iou would e#"ect to see fossils that really couldn7t be understood e#ce"t as transitions between one kind of organism and another. Iou would also e#"ect to see some of the common ancestors that ga!e birth to different grou"s like fish and re"tiles. Iou wouldn7t e#"ect to find them in e!ery case, of course. +t7s "erfectly reasonable to say that a great deal of the fossil e!idence has been lost. 6ut you would continually be finding e#am"les of things that fit well with the theory. +n reality, the fossil record is something that ,arwinists ha!e had to e#"lain away, because what it shows is the sudden a""earance of organisms that e#hibit no trace of ste".by.ste" de!elo"ment from earlier forms. And it shows that once these organisms e#ist, they remain fundamentally unchanged, des"ite the "assage of millions of years.and des"ite climatic and en!ironmental changes that should ha!e "roduced enormous ,arwinian e!olution if the theory were true. +n short, if e!olution is the gradual, ste".by. ste" transformation of one kind of thing into another, the outstanding feature of the fossil record is the absence of e!idence for e!olution. 6ut isn7t it "ossible, as many ,arwinists say, that the fossil e!idence is 2ust too scanty to show e!idence of ,arwinian e!olutionJ he 3uestion is whether or not ,arwinism is a scientific theory that can be tested with scientific e!idence. +f you assume that the theory is true, you can deal with conflicting e!idence by saying that the e!idence has disa""eared. 6ut then the 3uestion arises, how do you know it7s true if it isn7t recorded in the fossilsJ /here is the "roofJ +t7s not in genetics. And it7s not in the molecular e!idence, which shows similarities between organisms but doesn7t tell you how those similarities came about. 5o the "roof isn7t anywhere, and it7s illegitimate to a""roach the fossil record with the conclusi!e assum"tion that the theory is true so that you can read into the fossil record whate!er you need to su""ort the theory.

+f ,arwinism has been so thoroughly disconfirmed, why do so many scientists say it7s a factJ here are se!eral factors that e#"lain this. 'ne is that ,arwinism is fundamentally a religious "osition, not a scientific "osition. he "ro2ect of ,arwinism is to e#"lain the world and all its life forms in a way that e#cludes any role for a creator. And that "ro2ect is sacred to the scientific naturalist.to the "erson who denies that 9od can in any way influence natural e!ents. +t7s also an unfortunate fact in the history of science that scientists will stick to a theory which is untrue until they get an acce"table alternati!e theory. which to a ,arwinist means a strictly naturalistic theory. 5o for them, the 3uestion is not whether ,arwinism is true. he 3uestion is whether there is a better theory that7s "hiloso"hically acce"table. Any suggestion that ,arwinism is false, and that we should admit our ignorance about the origin of com"le# life.forms, is sim"ly unacce"table. +n their eyes, ,arwinism is the best naturalistic theory, and therefore effecti!ely true. he argument that it7s false can7t e!en be heard. 5urely there are some ske"tics in the scientific world. /hat of themJ /ell, there are se!eral, and we can see what ha""ened to them. Iou ha!e "aleontologist Colin <atterson, who7s 3uoted in my first cha"ter. 4e made a !ery bold statement, recei!ed a lot of !icious criticism, and then "ulled back. his is a ty"ical "attern. Another "attern is that of 5te"hen Jay 9ould, who said that ,arwinism is effecti!ely dead as a general theory.and then reali1ed that he had gi!en a "owerful wea"on to the creationists, whose e#istence cannot be tolerated. 5o now 9ould says that he7s really a good ,arwinist, and that all he really meant was that ,arwinism could be im"ro!ed by de!elo"ing a larger theory that included ,arwinism. /hat we ha!e here is "olitics, not science. ,arwinism is "olitically correct for the scientific community, because it enables them to fight off any ri!als for cultural authority. O,arwinists often accuse creationists of intolerance. 6ut you7re suggesting that the ,arwinists are intolerantJ +f you want to know what ,arwinist science is really like, read what the ,arwinists say about the creationists, because those things.regardless of whether they7re true about the creationists.are true about the ,arwinists. +7!e found that "eo"le often say things about their enemies that are true of themsel!es. And + think ,arwinist science has many of the defects that the ,arwinists are so indignant about when they describe the creationists. Across the country, there has been a growing trend toward teaching e!olution as a fact.es"ecially in California, your own state. /hat does this say about science education in AmericaJ

his is an attem"t to establish a religious "osition as orthodo# throughout the educational establishment, and thus throughout the society. +t7s gone !ery far. he "osition is what + call Mscientific naturalism.M he scientific organi1ations, for e#am"le, tell us that if we wish to maintain our country7s economic status and co"e with en!ironmental "roblems, we must gi!e e!eryone a scientific outlook. 6ut the Mscientific outlookM they ha!e in mind is one which, by definition, e#cludes 9od from any role in the world, from the 6ig 6ang to the "resent. 5o this is fundamentally a religious "osition.a fundamentalist "osition, if you like..and it7s being taught in the schools as a fact when it isn7t e!en a good theory. /hy should Christians be concerned about a scientific theoryJ /hy does it matterJ /ell, not only Christians should care about it. $!eryone should. +t is religion in the name of science, and that means that it is misleading "eo"le about both religion and science.
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2i#anas + /y Da id &hildress Many researchers into the >0' enigma tend to o!erlook a !ery im"ortant fact. /hile it assumed that most flying saucers are of alien, or "erha"s 9o!ernmental Military origin, another "ossible origin of >0's is ancient +ndia and Atlantis. /hat we know about ancient +ndian flying !ehicles comes from ancient +ndian sourcesL written te#ts that ha!e come down to us through the centuries. here is no doubt that most of these te#ts are authenticL many are the well known ancient +ndian $"ics themsel!es, and there are literally hundreds of them. Most of them ha!e not e!en been translated into $nglish yet from the old 5anskrit. +ndian $m"eror Ashoka started a M5ecret 5ociety of the =ine >nknown MenM.. great +ndian scientists who were su""osed to catalogue the many sciences. Ashoka ke"t their work secret because he was afraid that the ad!anced science catalogued by these men, "ulled from ancient +ndian sources, would be used for the e!il "ur"ose of war, which Ashoka was strongly against, ha!ing been con!erted to 6uddhism after defeating a ri!al army in a bloody battle. he M=ine >nknown MenM wrote a total of nine books, "resumably one each. 6ook number was M he 5ecrets of 9ra!itationPM his book, known to historians, but not actually seen by them dealt chiefly with Mgra!ity control.M +t is "resumably still around somewhere, ke"t in a secret library in +ndia, ibet or elsewhere ("erha"s e!en in =orth America somewhere). 'ne can certainly understand Ashoka7s reasoning for wanting to kee" such knowledge a secret, assuming it e#ists. Ashoka was also aware of de!astating wars using such ad!anced !ehicles and other Mfuturistic wea"onsM that had destroyed the ancient +ndian MRama $m"ireM se!eral thousand years before. 'nly a few years ago, the Chinese

disco!ered some 5anskrit documents in Lhasa, ibet and sent them to the >ni!ersity of Chandrigarh to be translated. ,r. Ruth Reyna of the uni!ersity said recently that the documents contain directions for building interstellar s"aceshi"sP heir method of "ro"ulsion, she said, was Manti.gra!itationalM and was based u"on a system analogous to that of Mlaghima,M the unknown "ower of the ego e#isting in man7s "hysiological makeu", Ma centrifugal force strong enough to counteract all gra!itational "ull.M According to 4indu Iogis, it is this MlaghimaM which enables a "erson to le!itate. ,r. Reyna said that on board these machines, which were called MAstrasM by the te#t, the ancient +ndians could ha!e sent a detachment of men onto any "lanet, according to the document, which is thought to be thousands of years old. he manuscri"ts were also said to re!eal the secret of MantimaML Mthe ca" of in!isibilityM and MgarimaML Mhow to become as hea!y as a mountain of lead.M =aturally, +ndian scientists did not take the te#ts !ery seriously, but then became more "ositi!e about the !alue of them when the Chinese announced that they were including certain "arts of the data for study in their s"ace "rogramP his was one of the first instances of a go!ernment admitting to be researching anti.gra!ity. he manuscri"ts did not say definitely that inter"lanetary tra!el was e!er made but did mention, of all things, a "lanned tri" to the Moon, though it is not clear whether this tri" was actually carried out. 4owe!er, one of the great +ndian e"ics, the Ramayana, does ha!e a highly detailed story in it of a tri" to the moon in a Nimana (or MAstraM), and in fact details a battle on the moon with an MAs!inM (or AtlanteanM) airshi". his is but a small bit of recent e!idence of anti.gra!ity and aeros"ace technology used by +ndians. o really understand the technology, we must go much further back in time. he so.called MRama $m"ireM of =orthern +ndia and <akistan de!elo"ed at least fifteen thousand years ago on the +ndian sub.continent and was a nation of many large, so"histicated cities, many of which are still to be found in the deserts of <akistan, northern, and western +ndia. Rama e#isted, a""arently, "arallel to the Atlantean ci!ili1ation in the mid.Atlantic 'cean, and was ruled by Menlightened <riest.:ingsM who go!erned the cities. he se!en greatest ca"ital cities of Rama were known in classical 4indu te#ts as M he 5e!en Rishi Cities.M According to ancient +ndian te#ts, the "eo"le had flying machines which were called MNimanas.M he ancient +ndian e"ic describes a Nimana as a double.deck, circular aircraft with "ortholes and a dome, much as we would imagine a flying saucer. +t flew with the Ms"eed of the windM and ga!e forth a Qmelodious sound.M here were at least four different ty"es of NimanasL some saucer sha"ed, others like long cylinders (Mcigar sha"ed airshi"sM). he ancient +ndian te#ts on Nimanas are so numerous, it would take !olumes to relate what they had to say.

he ancient +ndians, who manufactured these shi"s themsel!es, wrote entire flight manuals on the control of the !arious ty"es of Nimanas, many of which are still in e#istence, and some ha!e e!en been translated into $nglish. he 5amara 5utradhara is a scientific treatise dealing with e!ery "ossible angle of air tra!el in a Nimana. here are ()& stan1as dealing with the construction, take.off, cruising for thousand of miles, normal and forced landings, and e!en "ossible collisions with birds. +n *;H%, the Naimanika 5astra, a fourth century 6.C. te#t written by 6harad!a2y the /ise, using e!en older te#ts as his source, was redisco!ered in a tem"le in +ndia. +t dealt with the o"eration of Nimanas and included information on the steering, "recautions for long flights, "rotection of the airshi"s from storms and lightning and how to switch the dri!e to Msolar energyM from a free energy source which sounds like Manti. gra!ity.M he Naimanika 5astra (or Nymaanika.5haastra) has eight cha"ters with diagrams, describing three ty"es of aircraft, including a""aratuses that could neither catch on fire nor break. +t also mentions )* essential "arts of these !ehicles and *E materials from which they are constructed, which absorb light and heatL for which reason they were considered suitable for the construction of Nimanas. his document has been translated into $nglish and is a!ailable by writing the "ublisher? NIMAA=+,A54AA5 RA A$R'=A> +C5 by Maharishi 6haradwaa2a, translated into $nglish and edited, "rinted and "ublished by Mr. 9. R.Josyer, Mysore, +ndia, *GHG (sorry, no street address). Mr. Josyer is the director of the +nternational Academy of 5anskrit +n!estigation, located in Mysore. here seems to be no doubt that Nimanas were "owered by some sort of Manti.gra!ity.M Nimanas took off !ertically, and were ca"able of ho!ering in the sky, like a modern helico"ter or dirigible. 6harad!a2y the /ise refers to no less than H& authorities and *& e#"erts of air tra!el in anti3uity. hese sources are now lost. Nimanas were ke"t in a Nimana 9riha, a kind of hanger, and were sometimes said to be "ro"elled by a yellowish.white li3uid, and sometimes by some sort of mercury com"ound, though writers seem confused in this matter. +t is most likely that the later writers on Nimanas, wrote as obser!ers and from earlier te#ts, and were understandably confused on the "rinci"le of their "ro"ulsion. he Myellowish.white li3uidM sounds sus"iciously like gasoline, and "erha"s Nimanas had a number of different "ro"ulsion sources, including combustion engines and e!en M"ulse.2etM engines. +t is interesting to note, that the =a1is de!elo"ed the first "ractical "ulse. 2et engines for their N.; rocket Mbu11 bombs.M 4itler and the =a1i staff were e#ce"tionally interested in ancient +ndia and ibet and sent e#"editions to both these "laces yearly, starting in the )&7s, in order to gather esoteric e!idence that they did so, and "erha"s it was from these "eo"le that the =a1is gained some of their scientific informationP According to the ,rona"ar!a, "art of the Mahabarata, and the Ramayana, one Nimana described was sha"ed like a s"here and born along at great

s"eed on a mighty wind generated by mercury. +t mo!ed like a >0', going u", down, backwards and forwards as the "ilot desired. +n another +ndian source, the 5amar, Nimanas were Miron machines, well.knit and smooth, with a charge of mercury that shot out of the back in the form of a roaring flame.M Another work called the 5amaranganasutradhara describes how the !ehicles were constructed. +t is "ossible that mercury did ha!e something to do with the "ro"ulsion, or more "ossibly, with the guidance system. Curiously, 5o!iet scientists ha!e disco!ered what they call Mage.old instruments used in na!igating cosmic !ehiclesM in ca!es in urkestan and the 9obi ,esert. he Mde!icesM are hemis"herical ob2ects of glass or "orcelain, ending in a cone with a dro" of mercury inside. +t is e!ident that ancient +ndians flew around in these !ehicles, all o!er Asia, to Atlantis "resumablyL and e!en, a""arently, to 5outh America. /riting found at Mohen2odaro in <akistan ("resumed to be one of the M5e!en Rishi Cities of the Rama $m"ireM) and still undeci"hered, has also been found in one other "lace in the world? $aster Island! /riting on $aster +sland, called Rongo.Rongo writing, is also undeci"hered, and is uncannily similar to the Mohen2odaro scri"t. /as $aster +sland an air base for the Rama $m"ire7s Nimana routeJ (At the Mohen2o.,aro Nimana. drome, as the "assenger walks down the concourse, he hears the sweet, melodic sound of the announcer o!er the louds"eaker, QRama Airways flight number se!en for 6ali, $aster +sland, =a1ca, and Atlantis is now ready for boarding. <assengers "lease "roceed to gate number..M) in ibet, no small distance, and s"eaks of the Mfiery chariotM thus? M6hima flew along in his car, res"lendent as the sun and loud as thunder... he flying chariot shone like a flame in the night sky of summer ... it swe"t by like a comet... +t was as if two suns were shining. hen the chariot rose u" and all the hea!en brightened.M +n the Maha!ira of 6ha!abhuti, a Jain te#t of the eighth century culled from older te#ts and traditions, we read? MAn aerial chariot, the <ush"aka, con!eys many "eo"le to the ca"ital of Ayodhya. he sky is full of stu"endous flying. machines, dark as night, but "icked out by lights with a yellowish glare.M he Nedas, ancient 4indu "oems, thought to be the oldest of all the +ndian te#ts, describe Nimanas of !arious sha"es and si1es? the Mahnihotra. !imanaM with two engines, the Qele"hant.!imanaM with more engines, and other ty"es named after the kingfisher, ibis and other animals. >nfortunately, Nimanas, like most scientific disco!eries, were ultimately used for war. Atlanteans used their flying machines, MNaili#i,M a similar ty"e of aircraft, to literally try and sub2ugate the world, it would seem, if +ndian te#ts are to be belie!ed. he Atlanteans, known as MAs!insM in the +ndian writings, were a""arently e!en more ad!anced technologically than the +ndians, and certainly of a more war.like tem"erament. Although no ancient te#ts on Atlantean Naili#i are known to e#ist, some information has come down through esoteric, MoccultM sources which describe their flying machines.

5imilar, if not identical to Nimanas, Naili#i were generally Mcigar sha"edM and had the ca"ability of maneu!ering underwater as well as in the atmos"here or e!en outer s"ace. 'ther !ehicles, like Nimanas, were saucer sha"ed, and could a""arently also be submerged. According to $klal :ueshana, author of M he >ltimate 0rontier,M in an article he wrote in *GEE, Naili#i were first de!elo"ed in Atlantis (&,&&& years ago, and the most common ones are Msaucer sha"ed of generally tra"e1oidal cross.section with three hemis"herical engine "ods on the underside.M M hey use a mechanical antigra!ity de!ice dri!en by engines de!elo"ing a""ro#imately ;&,&&& horse "ower.M he Ramayana, Mahabarata and other te#ts s"eak of the hideous war that took "lace, some ten or twel!e thousand years ago between Atlantis and Rama using wea"ons of destruction that could not be imagined by readers until the second half of this century. he ancient Mahabharata, one of the sources on Nimanas, goes on to tell the awesome destructi!eness of the war? M...(the wea"on was) a single "ro2ectile charged with all the "ower of the >ni!erse. An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as the thousand suns rose in all its s"lendor... An iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Nrishnis and the Andhakas.... the cor"ses were so burned as to be unrecogni1able. he hair and nails fell outL "ottery broke without a""arent cause, and the birds turned white.... after a few hours all foodstuffs were infected.... to esca"e from this fire, the soldiers threw themsel!es in streams to wash themsel!es and their e3ui"ment...M +t would seem that the Mahabharata is describing an atomic warP References like this one are not isolatedL but battles, using a fantastic array of wea"ons and aerial !ehicles are common in all the e"ic +ndian books. 'ne e!en describes a Nimana.Naili# battle on the MoonP he abo!e section !ery accurately describes what an atomic e#"losion would look like and the effects of the radioacti!ity on the "o"ulation. Jum"ing into water is the only res"ite. /hen the Rishi City of Mohen2odaro was e#ca!ated by archaeologists in the last century, they found skeletons 2ust lying in the streets, some of them holding hands, as if some great doom had suddenly o!ertaken them. hese skeletons are among the most radioacti!e e!er found, on a "ar with those found at 4iroshima and =agasaki. Ancient cities whose brick and stonewalls ha!e literally been !itrified, that is.fused together, can be found in +ndia, +reland, 5cotland, 0rance, urkey and other "laces. here is no logical e#"lanation for the !itrification of stone forts and cities, e#ce"t from an atomic blast. 0urthermore, at Mohen2o.,aro, a well "lanned city laid on a grid, with a "lumbing system su"erior to those used in <akistan and +ndia today, the streets were littered with Mblack lum"s of glass.M hese globs of glass were disco!ered to be clay "ots that had melted under intense heatP /ith the cataclysmic sinking of Atlantis and the wi"ing out of Rama with atomic wea"ons, the world colla"sed into a Mstone ageM of sorts, and modern history "icks u" a few thousand years later Iet, it would seem that not all the Nimanas and Naili#i of Rama and Atlantis were gone. 6uilt to last for

thousands of years, many of them would still be in use, as e!idenced by Ashoka7s M=ine >nknown MenM and the Lhasa manuscri"t. hat secret societies or M6rotherhoodsM of e#ce"tional, QenlightenedM human beings would ha!e "reser!ed these in!entions and the knowledge of science, history, etc., does not seem sur"rising. Many well known historical "ersonages including Jesus, 6uddha, Lao 1u, Confucius, :rishna, Roroaster, Maha!ira, Suet1alcoatl, Akhenaton, Moses, and more recent in!entors and of course many other "eo"le who will "robably remain anonymous, were "robably members of such a secret organi1ation. +t is interesting to note that when Ale#ander the 9reat in!aded +ndia more than two thousand years ago, his historians chronicled that at one "oint they were attacked by Mflying, fiery shieldsM that do!e at his army and frightened the ca!alry. hese Mflying saucersM did not use any atomic bombs or beam wea"ons on Ale#ander7s army howe!er, "erha"s out of bene!olence, and Ale#ander went on to con3uer +ndia. +t has been suggested by many writers that these M6rotherhoodsM kee" some of their Nimanas and Naili#i in secret ca!erns in ibet or some other "lace is Central Asia, and the Lo" =or ,esert in western China is known to be the centre of a great >0' mystery. <erha"s it is here that many of the airshi"s are still ke"t, in underground bases much as the Americans, 6ritish and 5o!iets ha!e built around the world in the "ast few decades. 5till, not all >0' acti!ity can be accounted for by old Nimanas making tri"s to the Moon for some reason. >ndoubtedly, some are from the Military 9o!ernments of the world, and "ossibly e!en from other "lanets. 'f course, many >0' sightings are Mswam", gas, clouds, hoa#es, and hallucinations, while there is considerable e!idence that many >0' sightings, es"ecially Mkidna""ingsM and the like, are the result of what is generally called Mtele"athic hy"nosis.M 'ne common thread that often runs between MAlien kidna""ings,M Mse# with aliens,M and other Mclose encounters of a third kindM is a bu11ing in the ears 2ust before the encounter. According to many well informed "eo"le, this is a sure sign of tele"athic hy"nosis. An article /y Mu3ul Shar#a + The Ti#es of India + April 45 6777 According to some inter"retations of sur!i!ing te#ts, +ndia7s future it seems ha""ened way back in its "ast. ake the case of the Iantra 5ar!as!a, said to ha!e been written by the sage Maharshi 6hardwa2. his consists of as many as A& sections of which one, the Naimanika <rakarana dealing with aeronautics, has eight cha"ters, a hundred to"ics and %&& sootr. 6hardwa2 describes vimaan, or aerial craft, as being of three classes?

those that tra!el from "lace to "laceL those that tra!el from one country to anotherL

those that tra!el between "lanets.

'f s"ecial concern among these were the military "lanes whose functions were delineated in some !ery considerable detail and which read today like something clean out of science fiction. 0or instance they had to be?

im"regnable, unbreakable, non.combustible and indestructible ca"able of coming to a dead sto" in the twinkling of an eye in!isible to enemies ca"able of listening to the con!ersations and sounds in hostile "lanes technically "roficient to see and record things, "ersons, incidents and situations going on inside enemy "lanes know at e!ery stage the direction of mo!ement of other aircraft in the !icinity ca"able of rendering the enemy crew into a state of sus"ended animation, intellectual tor"or or com"lete loss of consciousness ca"able of destruction manned by "ilots and co.tra!elers who could ada"t in accordance with the climate in which they mo!ed tem"erature regulated inside constructed of !ery light and heat absorbing metals "ro!ided with mechanisms that could enlarge or reduce images and enhance or diminish sounds

=ow notwithstanding the fact that such a contra"tion would resemble a cross between an American state.of. the.art 5tealth 0ighter and a flying saucer, does it mean that air and s"ace tra!el was well known to ancient +ndians and aero"lanes flourished in +ndia when the rest of the world was 2ust about learning the rudiments of agricultureJ Rele ant -e/sites htt"?@@www.eurekalert.org@"ubTreleases@(&&H.&E@!u.eeo&E(%&H."h" htt"?@@www.nytimes.com@(&&E@**@)&@science@)&com"ute.htmlJ e#U*)((%A(;&&VenU&;;bdG)GcaH%fbbbVeiU%&;; htt"?@@english."eo"ledaily.com.cn@(&&*&H@&E@eng(&&*&H&ETHA)%E.html htt"?@@www.newdawnmaga1ine.com@Article@/hoW(&6uiltW(&the W(&Moon.html htt"?@@obser!er.guardian.co.uk@world@story@&,,*;%A()(,&&.html htt"?@@www.!indheim.net@ham"@hem".html htt"?@@www.li!escience.com@history@&H*(*A.egy"t.glassmaking.html