Ancient Astronauts And Contemporary Skepticism

Over the course of the past year, I closely assisted atheology evidence for another day.
colleague in writing a series of ten articles coveringMy website reproduces engravings from the
diverse aspects of my ancient astronaut theory. All tenTiwanaku civilization in Bolivia. One of those engravings
of those articles circulated widely around the globe anddepicts the alleged ancient astronaut as an aquatic
view counters on many sites indicated plentifulwith a three-pronged tail, with each of the three prongs
readership, but feedback to me, or to her, fromending in a pod. How do the skeptics refute that?
anywhere, was non-existent. There was neitherEasy. They simply need to demonstrate that the
criticism nor acclaim from anyone. Just silence. I wasshape of those pods resembles some form of animal
starting to think that perhaps no one in world wants toor 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 toengravings, otherwise my extraterrestrial arguments
pay sixty dollars for a review of my ancient astronautremain unharmed.
website. Of course, this was to be a review byThe timing of the Tiwanaku sky-god drawings
skeptics; a review by New Age believers would becoincides with the timing of the Nazca Lines in Peru, so
worthless. Their blog's description was "critical reviewsthe ancient astronaut of both places has to be one
of paranormal claims on the Internet." The intermediaryand the same. For Nazca, the skeptics will find many
granted them five days to perform their review butready-made arguments, but I consider all of them
that has long since come and gone, and not a wordweak. The mentality of the people of Nazca cannot
from them. My website presents a vast amount ofbe assumed to be unique in human history. It has to be
evidence and, in truth, I could not expect anyone todemonstrated that people elsewhere also believed
produce a good critical review in just five days. Nothat the sun, moon, or sky-spirits had physical eyes
one, including myself, would want to see quicklythat could observe ground drawings. Alternatively, it
prepared and frivolous arguments, else I would makehas 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 fromintelligence.
Spanish-language sources and, to start, they wouldThe recorded engravings on the cosmological Sun
need time to verify that none of it is a hoax. They areDisk, 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 arethe Andeans of the early sixteenth century a) knew
skeptics who are as narrow-minded in their thinking asthat the Earth was round, b) knew that it was possible
their New Age counterparts, and then again, there areto orbit the Earth, c) knew that sunlight striking the
skeptics, like me, who objectively evaluate themoon could reflect back to strike a spaceship, d) knew
evidence to arrive at the truth. Was there a realthat the dark clouds along the Milky Way contained
ancient astronaut? To help the skeptics answer thatstars within, and e) knew that water formed the basis
question, I will give them some ideas on how to refuteof plant and animal evolution? Here the skeptics would
my theories. Here, solely for space considerations, I willneed to find parallels in the history of western
concentrate on the archaeological evidence, leavingcivilization. I look forward to their response.
aside ideas on how to refute the cryptology and