Have you heard of Zecharia Sitchin.?

Question

Zecharia Sitchin, along with Erich von Däniken and Immanuel Velikovsky, make up the holy trinity of pseudohistorians. Each begins with the assumption that ancient myths are not myths but historical and scientific texts. Sitchin's claim to fame is announcing that he alone correctly reads ancient Sumerian clay tablets. [Of course, he didn't announce this by taking out an ad in the New York Times but by implying it with his "translations" that do not jibe with the work of legitimate scholars in the field.] If Sitchin is right, then all other scholars have misread these tablets, which, according to Sitchin, reveal that gods from another planet (Niburu, which orbits our Sun every 3,600 years) arrived on Earth some 450,000 years ago and created humans by genetic engineering of female apes. Niburu orbits beyond Pluto and is heated from within by radioactive decay, according to Sitchin.

No other scientist has discovered that these descendants of gods blew themselves up with nuclear weapons some 4,000 years ago (The War of Gods and Men, p. 310).* Sitchin alone can look at a Sumerian tablet and see that it depicts a man being subjected to radiation. He alone knows how to correctly translate ancient terms allowing him to discover such things as that the ancients made rockets (ibid., p. 46).* Yet, he doesn't seem to know that the seasons are caused by the earth's tilt, not by its distance from the sun.
http://skepdic.com/sitchin.html

Answer 1

Yup I read all his books about 20 years ago. It's truly a mistake to categorize him with Von Daniken though. Sitchin is a linguistic scholar so I wouldn't discount him out of hand. Stranger things have happened. After all so-called scientists dismissed the idea that the mountain gorilla and the panda bear could possibly be real creatures not so long ago. There are still so many things about the earth, the creatures on it or our history that we cannot possibly know or understand yet. Keep an open mind. People seem to be afraid to have an open mind and feel they will look foolish but it's much more foolish to say something could never be true when we know so little. That's just arrogance.

Answer 2

I can't say that I have ever heard of this person let alone his ideas. I will never say that something is not possible so I won't begin now. However, it seems highly unlikely that only one person on earth would be able to understand what these "God men" did if it were indeed true. No one will really know until the theory has been able to stand up to time for a couple of thousand years.

Answer 3

That is just a science fiction fairy tail. Cant you distinguish fiction from fact?