God Is Red by Vine Deloria Jr

Author:Vine Deloria Jr.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Published: 2016-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

It is indeed a fairy tale although we are taught to pretend that it is science, a hard-won insight into the nature of the physical world that is superior to any other explanation.

If we cannot give a better explanation of the origin of wheat than Bronowski’s, how can we explain the rest of the amazing complex of civilization we have found in the Middle East? Why would early man or woman bother to harvest the wheat? If they ate the wheat raw, they would have a spectacular stomachache. If they already knew that it should be ground into flour and baked in order to break down the enzymes in the husk, where did they get that information?

We have been told that primitive peoples discovered the smelting process while baking bread. They happened to include some copper ore in their ovens and, when they completed their bakery chores for the day, discovered that they had smelted ores to produce copper or iron while making their primitive pastries. But an oven has to be in the neighborhood of 1,500˚C in order to break down ore. There would be no reason to heat an oven that hot in order to bake bread.4

In fact, we cannot explain hardly anything about how civilization began. We simply find a very complex urban society when we uncover the ruins of earliest settlements anywhere in the world and we make up fairy tales to avoid asking ourselves hard questions about the origins of these ruins. It is at this point that I could well believe the theory of the ancient astronauts as bringers of culture and technology. This makes as much sense as any other explanation. At least it enables us to explain the incredible technological advances that we see so early in human history, and it helps us avoid making totally stupid statements.

Today the ancient astronaut thesis is anathema to respectable scholarship because it has been put forward in an irresponsible manner. Popular writers have simply cited a catalog of strange, unexplained items such as the large stones in Baalbek, the lines of Nazca, the dry-cell pottery battery of Mesopotamia, and citations in Ezekiel about flying wheels. These writers screamed, “Ancient astronauts!” without offering any prolonged argument that would illuminate us about exactly what these ancients did that was so important and how they have affected us today.

One writer, however, has tried to present a comprehensive view of an ancient astronaut invasion of the earth and its consequences. Zecharia Sitchin, in a four-book series, Earth Chronicles, reinterprets Near Eastern history with the bringing of technology, the rise of the kingship and urban settlements, and the imperial wars as if this history were the result of an intrusion from a superior civilization—certainly food for the imagination. The books, The Twelfth Planet, The Stairway to Heaven, The Wars of Gods and Men, and The Lost Realm, have an internal logic to them and illuminate some of the ruins of ancient times as well as explain social and political ideas that have continued within Western civilization for which we have only the slightest explanation.

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