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the experience of seeing actual humanoid space visitors into mythical supernatural beings (gods). We should, however, be careful that we do not become victims of a false dichotomy. When confronted with two possibilities, it is tempting to think that either ‘this’ must be true or 'that' may be true. In other words, either there were ancient astronauts or there were gods. But both may be true. Ancient peoples may have encountered both astronauts (humans using advanced technology for interplanetary travel) and gods (supernatural beings, by which I mean beings from regions of nature not normally accessible to Earth humans). That is what the ancient Sanskrit writings suggest ta ne reproductive processes. Such things as test tube babies, cloning and genetic engineering are not new. They were there in ancient times, and the action was not confined to this Earth: it was inter- planetary. Two years from now, at the next world conference in Cologne, Germany, I will speak to you about this. This process of guided reproductive modification is also the subject of my next book, which I am calling Human Devolution. What this all adds up to is that Darwinian explanations of human origins are not adequate. The very existence of ancient astronauts poses a strong challenge to Darwinian concepts of human origins. The ancient astronaut hypothesis tells us that humans on this planet were visited in the distant past by humanoid beings from other planets. Let us carefully consider the implications of this. to us. humans on this planet were visited in the distant past by So we should not become ‘cargo cultists' in reverse. Earlier in humanoid beings from other planets. Let us carefully consider the this century, when Pacific tribal people encountered Westerners implications of this. coming down from the sky in air- According to Darwinism, the struc- planes full of valuable goods they ture of physical bodies is encoded in began to build systems of worship the DNA in the body's cells. To around the experience, translating the change the bodily form, the DNA real technological into the mythical must be changed. These changes are supernatural. This has probably The very existence of ancient said to be random, resulting from occurred in the past as well. But we copying errors, mutations and recom- should be careful not to automatical- astronauts poses a strong bination. To go from the first one- ly translate all accounts of the super- challenge to Darwinian celled living things to humans like natural in ancient writings into some- ourselves required, we are told, mil- thing that fits our present technologi- concepts of human origins. lions of random genetic changes over cal experience. We should remain the course of more than two billion open to the possibility that in ancient years. This has led leading evolu- times the Earth was visited by both tionists such as Stephen J. Gould to astronauts and gods. say that if we were to 'run the tape According to the ancient Sanskrit again’ the evolutionary process would writings of India, humans on this planet originated by a process of _ probably not give us upright-walking humans, apemen or apes. descent with modification. This process thus has something in So it is extremely unlikely that humanlike creatures could have common with Darwinism, which also posits a process of descent evolved in Darwinian fashion both on this planet and somewhere with modification. But the process described in the ancient else in the universe. In other words, the very fact that there are Sanskrit writings is intelligently guided. humanoid creatures from other parts of the universe is a good The ancient Sanskrit writings tell not only of ancient human argument against current Darwinian explanations for the origin of civilisations and space-travelling humans but also of some very humans on this planet. interesting genetic manipulations and variations on the normal minf the avi astronauts poses a strong challenge to Darwinian concepts of human origins. aving established the connection of the evi- He= reported in The Mysterious Origins of Man with the ancient astronaut hypothesis, we can now proceed to examine the heated scientif- ic responses to this program. These responses amount to a kind of ‘knowledge filtration’. In my book, Forbidden Archeology, I described not only evidence for extreme human antiquity but also the processes by which dominant groups in sci- ence exclude this evidence from scientific discus- sion and public attention. These processes, which I collectively refer to as the "knowledge filter", are a powerful factor in keeping certain kinds of evi- dence relatively unknown. In the case of The Mysterious Origins of Man, the knowledge filtration process began to operate even as the show was being filmed. I suggested to the producers that they film stone artefacts discov- ered in Californian gold-mines during the 19th cen- tury. Geological evidence indicates that these objects are about 50 million years old. The arte- facts are stored at the Phoebe Hearst Natural History Museum at the University of California in Berkeley. The responses from the museum offi- cials are interesting. 68 = NEXUS JUNE - JULY 1998 The very existence of ancient