| Over the course of the past year, I closely assisted a | | | | theology evidence for another day. |
| colleague in writing a series of ten articles covering | | | | My website reproduces engravings from the |
| diverse aspects of my ancient astronaut theory. All ten | | | | Tiwanaku civilization in Bolivia. One of those engravings |
| of those articles circulated widely around the globe and | | | | depicts the alleged ancient astronaut as an aquatic |
| view counters on many sites indicated plentiful | | | | with a three-pronged tail, with each of the three prongs |
| readership, but feedback to me, or to her, from | | | | ending in a pod. How do the skeptics refute that? |
| anywhere, was non-existent. There was neither | | | | Easy. They simply need to demonstrate that the |
| criticism nor acclaim from anyone. Just silence. I was | | | | shape of those pods resembles some form of animal |
| starting to think that perhaps no one in world wants to | | | | or plant life to be found in that region. In other words, |
| take ancient astronauts seriously. | | | | they need to find a terrestrial source for those |
| In an attempt to make some progress, I decided to | | | | engravings, otherwise my extraterrestrial arguments |
| pay sixty dollars for a review of my ancient astronaut | | | | remain unharmed. |
| website. Of course, this was to be a review by | | | | The timing of the Tiwanaku sky-god drawings |
| skeptics; a review by New Age believers would be | | | | coincides with the timing of the Nazca Lines in Peru, so |
| worthless. Their blog's description was "critical reviews | | | | the ancient astronaut of both places has to be one |
| of paranormal claims on the Internet." The intermediary | | | | and the same. For Nazca, the skeptics will find many |
| granted them five days to perform their review but | | | | ready-made arguments, but I consider all of them |
| that has long since come and gone, and not a word | | | | weak. The mentality of the people of Nazca cannot |
| from them. My website presents a vast amount of | | | | be assumed to be unique in human history. It has to be |
| evidence and, in truth, I could not expect anyone to | | | | demonstrated that people elsewhere also believed |
| produce a good critical review in just five days. No | | | | that the sun, moon, or sky-spirits had physical eyes |
| one, including myself, would want to see quickly | | | | that could observe ground drawings. Alternatively, it |
| prepared and frivolous arguments, else I would make | | | | has to be demonstrated that the people of Nazca |
| them look ridiculous in my counter arguments. | | | | worshipped birds, believing them to have cognitive |
| Moreover, some of my evidence comes from | | | | intelligence. |
| Spanish-language sources and, to start, they would | | | | The recorded engravings on the cosmological Sun |
| need time to verify that none of it is a hoax. They are | | | | Disk, alleged alien artifact, may prove to be the biggest |
| welcome to all the time they need. | | | | challenge for the skeptics. How are we to believe that |
| What to expect from this blog is uncertain. There are | | | | the Andeans of the early sixteenth century a) knew |
| skeptics who are as narrow-minded in their thinking as | | | | that the Earth was round, b) knew that it was possible |
| their New Age counterparts, and then again, there are | | | | to orbit the Earth, c) knew that sunlight striking the |
| skeptics, like me, who objectively evaluate the | | | | moon could reflect back to strike a spaceship, d) knew |
| evidence to arrive at the truth. Was there a real | | | | that the dark clouds along the Milky Way contained |
| ancient astronaut? To help the skeptics answer that | | | | stars within, and e) knew that water formed the basis |
| question, I will give them some ideas on how to refute | | | | of plant and animal evolution? Here the skeptics would |
| my theories. Here, solely for space considerations, I will | | | | need to find parallels in the history of western |
| concentrate on the archaeological evidence, leaving | | | | civilization. I look forward to their response. |
| aside ideas on how to refute the cryptology and | | | | |