When you consider an option intently - a move in a game, a theory asking for belief, a politician - and eventually decide against that option, there's a strong tendency for you to immediately latch on to a new alternative option with limited scrutiny, even if you would never have accepted that option had you given it the same amount of thought you gave the first option. The author raises some important and intriguing questions, but I can't recommend that readers pay for a book of questions. They are the books you will love during your first reading when you were young but won't impress you that much after rereading them after a few years. many of the questions he brings forth are very valid questions even today for which I would love to hear good, rational explanations. See, most sane people, having lead with the skeleton of an unknown animal, would have talked about it.

In 1977 an eight part Polish comic adaptation of the book was created by Alfred Gorny, Arnold Mostowicz and artist Boguslaw Polch. Von Daeniken is almost impressive in how he's able to have his ideas totally collapse even just by looking at the 'facts' that he himself presents in the same paragraph as his ideas. and he asks this, incredulously, in exactly the same paragraph that he mentions that the first rising of Sirius each year occurs at more or less exactly the time that the annual Nile floods, the central fact of Egyptian culture and economics, begin. Von Daeniken rules out the possibility of a connexion to the flooding, because Sirius doesn't necessarily predict the exact day of the first flood each year, and hence the calendar matching the flooding must be a coincidence.it fascinates the mind and it expands the depths in which you think and it causes you to question aspects of our history. Examples include Ezekiel's vision of the angels and the wheels, which Von Däniken interprets as a description of a spacecraft; the Ark of the Covenant, which is explained as a device intended for communication with an alien race; and the destruction of Sodom by fire and brimstone, which is interpreted as a nuclear explosion. maybe he was mentioned in another chapter, but not in the several pages before or after this paragraph) believes that the word 'hammer' meant 'stone' in the stone age (actually it's obviously from a word that meant approximately 'stone-ish', 'stone-oid' or the like, and originally meant any stone-headed tool - but this transparent derivation happened in the Bronze Age), and therefore Thor must have been worshipped in the stone age (wait, what? I think for us to stand here on one infinitely insignificant world among countless billions (or trillions) in the "known" universe and state "we are it and we are the best" is ridiculous beyond my ability to put into words.

Surely ancient India was home to intelligent (and highly literate) animals as well as the sporadic aliens, all conspiring to befuddle the poor humans into worshiping them and then mythologizing them.There are many problems connected with the technology of the pyramid builders and no genuine solutions. The global media rights to the book have since been purchased by Media Invest Entertainment which is developing a "360-degree entertainment" franchise entitled Chariots of the Gods. The appeals to authority and popularity - the various 'Professor Kuehn's - that are too vague to actually be a form of accountability.

Putting aside the shortcomings of the prose, the book also did not fulfill its promise of showing evidence for aliens having visited Earth in the ancient past. Many scientists and historians have rejected his ideas, claiming that the book's conclusions were based on faulty, pseudoscientific evidence, some of which was later demonstrated to be fraudulent or fabricated, and under illogical premises. Looking at a few pages, his strategy is not so much 'having ideas' as 'asking questions, refusing to answer them, and then just assuming that therefore aliens'. During his formative years at the renowned College St-Michel in Fribourg, Switzerland, Erich von Daniken immersed himself in ancient holy writings and unsolved archaeological puzzles.And since Thor is known as the Thunderer, he must be a reference to space aliens who make the sky unsafe for human travel (because the alternative theory, that people were aware of the existence of thunder, is too ludicrous for him to even consider). The worldwide bestseller was followed by forty more books, including The Eyes of the Sphinx , Twilight of the Gods , History Is Wrong , Evidence of the Gods , and Odyssey of the Gods . Dit boek was zo populair, en ik had er al zoveel over gehoord, dat ik vond dat ik het moest gelezen hebben.