Jason Colavito has an interesting piece about "rows of teeth" and ancient giants supposedly supported by the Talmud. It's really about a plagiarized reference, but giant fans (no World Series pun intended there) will find it interesting. I left a comment that should...
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Biblical Giants and Dinosaur Bones
Aeneas asked a question in a comment to an earlier post about the faked giant human skeleton: I'd like you to comment on the dinosaur bones angle as well. It is certainly not an unreasonable theory for all the stories of giants in the past, including the Bible. I lean...
Paracas Skull Groundhog Day
This past Friday, Feb 2, Lynn Marzulli's second round on Paracas skull DNA was revealed to a pay-per-view audience. The Groundhog Day timing was appropriate. We've seen this before. I'd love to say "good job; thanks for doing the hard work on this." But I can't. This...
The Myth of Double-Row Teeth and Elongated-Skull Nephilim
I’ve blogged once before about this point of pseudo-research as it relates to using the Talmud for its justification. In biblical thinking and history, however, the nephilim (who were unusually tall) died out in biblical times. That means there were no modern nephilim...
Genetic Mythologies: “Nephilim DNA” from the Paracas skulls
The title of this post corresponds to an excellent post by Dr. Jennifer Raff on her personal blog. Dr. Raff is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas, and director and principal investigator at the University of Kansas laboratory of human...
Colavito, Hanks, and Giants: Some Interaction by Heiser
See how I cleverly included all three last names for better searching? You'll understand that if you read Jason Colavito's latest post on "gigantology": Micah Hanks: The Hubris of Jason Colavito and Skeptics Over Giants Is "Worthy of Study." Basically, Micah Hanks is...
Another Giant Human Skeleton That Isn't
I've blogged before about giant human skeletons that aren't giant human skeletons. The first two examples I blogged about were hoaxes, created with image editing software (see here and here). The Remnant of the Giants blog recently had an interesting post about a...
Why I’m Not on the Bandwagon with Christian Nephilim Hunters
Well, there are several reasons that I could go into at length, but you really don't need any more of an explanation than this essay by Jason Colavito. What he's shooting at is a testament to poor thinking, shoddy research (biblical and otherwise), incoherent...
Elongated Skulls: Not a Mystery
I wish I had a dollar for every TV show, website, or ancient alien enthusiast email that touts the bogus idea that elongated skulls are proof of either aliens, nephilim, or both. It's utter nonsense. These enthusiasts regularly suggest and assume that mainstream...
More Nephilim-Bigfoot-Mound Builder-Peruvian Cone-Heads Flim-Flam
This would all be discouraging were not Jason Colavito's lengthy reviews of this stuff so entertaining. Both of these essays were posted this month. Annotations are mine. Creationist "Bigfoot" Veterinarian Wants Cash to Sequence Nephilim "Giant" DNA Readers will...
Sanctified Gullibility is Still Gullibility
It doesn't get much more embarrassing than this. Jason Colavito has a short write up on how Christian apologists are using a prop -- a giant human skeleton that isn't a skeleton at all -- from von Daniken's ancient astronaut theme park for the gullible. Since when is...
RH Negative Blood: Alien-Nephilim-Hybrid Nonsense
A couple months ago my PEERANORMAL Podcast focused on this modern myth. Here's a pretty thorough-but-readable essay on the RH nephilim silliness. It's very informative. I guess at a time when people are willing to believe the earth is actually flat and all ISS / NASA...
Elongated Skulls: Professional vs. Amateur Research
Below are three informative essays on elongated skulls that anyone interested in the topic should read. They are informative because they provide a good survey (and sources in the notes) of the sort of research professionals conduct on these skulls, and because they...
No, the Nephilim Did Not Build the Pyramids
Well, this is soul-crushing. My thanks to Jason Colavito for once again directing our attention to awful thinking and helping us think more clearly about it. His post (Did the Nephilim Build the Pyramids? Or Were They Woolly Mammoths?) is about a video documentary...
Elongated Skulls and Christian Ethics
Those of you with an interest in the elongated skull paleobabble (that they have something to do with aliens or nephilim) will find this short essay of interest. It's from the Hot Cup of Joe blog. It's basically an overview of the methodological problems of the...