What are your thoughts on the Ancient Astronaut theory?

Question

if you ask me, it's definitely something we shouldn't rule out.

here's a link that explains it a little further:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronaut


there are so many things in this world that common knowledge can't explain. wouldn't it be nice to just know the complete truth?

Answer 1

What can't be explained by "common knowledge?" There is a huge volume of fanciful artwork from many cultures over the millennia. Nearly all of them highlighted the head in some way, for those they believed divine. Helmets? And fiery things in the sky? Maybe just the primitives' notions of gods and their powers. This is a far more plausible explanation. Von Daniken and others can "see" all sorts of ET references, but there is no reason to believe they are anything more than his imagination and the imagination of the ancients who made them. It's just like the people who see the Virgin Mary in a taco or Jesus in an oil spill on their garage floor. Miracles? Only for the air-headed.

In the absence of any evidence to suggest that we have ever been visited by extraterrestrials, a reasonable person would conclude the simplest and most obvious explanation. But there are those who will jump immediately to the most implausible explanations they can, just because it is fun or cool to think about. That is not the kind of thinking that has led us upward through the ages. It is mostly ignorance and superstition. These people don't represent a new super-enlightened view of things. It is that kind of thinking that perpetuated the dark ages for 900 years.

Answer 2

works for me. okay, lets do it your way. ancient astronauts visited Earth and are responsible for all ancient building projects that can't be explained by assuming our ancestors were morons. So... Pyramids = alien... Parthenon = alien, hell, Great Wall = alien. Cool... sure makes archeology easy to remember! No more Egyptians, Teotihuacanos... we can give the credit to ET.

Also, any cave drawings that aren't immediately recognizable as bison, saber-toothed cats... are now 'alien'. Even animals playing cards.
Huh? Cards? You must be kidding?

Nope, follow this link to an ancient petroglyph.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Libya_5321_Meercatze_%28Gatti_Mammoni%29_Petroglyphs_Wadi_Methkandoush_Luca_Galuzzi_2007.jpg

definitely alien influence there (or maybe some smoking local flora)


Hey, KB! If it was good enough for such a reliable and unbiased network as Fox News... how can YOU doubt:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158450,00.html

Answer 3

I think there are Gods all over the cosmos

I think earth also has had it's own god/humanoid evolve from the creative life that anchored here
and that native life has been 'vacationed' with and 22 alien races have contributed 'seed' into the mixture
I do not believe the last tampering with was the event that seeded cro-magnum out of the Neanderthal - Rather I believe there have been further deliberate interactions intended to uplift and further our race.

Answer 4

I think it's nonsense. I'm an anthropologist and archaeologist by training, and have the greatest respect for the knowledge of so-called "primitive" people. There is nothing in the ancient world which cannot be attributed to human intelligence, and no reason to invoke extraterrestrial help.

Answer 5

There are many things such as Easter Island Stonehenge, the Great Pyramds at Giza that to me are beyond human reasoning that we can plausibly think were we here first?

Answer 6

Yes, it's true... this has been around for 30 years or so... so you are not discovering something NEW... this is old knowledge