If you believe in this nonsense, then here is what else you must believe: 1. That everything we know about astronomy and celestial mechanics is wrong (I’d want to know how we put people on the moon, why Voyager was a success, and how we landed rovers on Mars if...
LoreBunk & Hist-eria
What Will YOU Being Doing When the World Doesn’t End?
With ten days to go until mythical doomsday, I was wishing today that there was a convenient way to celebrate the epic fail with PaleoBabble readers — something like an online New Year’s Eve party for sane people with geeky fascination for the ancient...
New Book on Zeitgeist/Jesus Mythicist Nonsense
I’m currently in Chicago attending the annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature (along with satellite meetings by scholarly organizations like the American Schools of Oriental Research). These meetings are also...
The Planet X Fraud
In case you haven’t heard of “Planet X,” it’s a notorious piece on Paleobabble that was derived from Zecharia Sitchin’s 12th planet Nibiru nonsense. However, Planet X has since taken on a (fake) life of its own, so that the idea cannot be...
Avatar Steven Greer Testing Human Gullibility Again
The erstwhile Jack Brewer has an interesting piece over on his UFO Trail blog (which I highly recommend to readers) about Steven Greer’s latest attempt to convince the public he’s the gatekeeper for ET contact and disclosure. (If you aren’t familiar...
Simcha Jacobovici’s Conspiracy Fantasy
I recommend readers have a look at this recent post by Dr. Larry Hurtado. It begins this way: If you want to see a good example of what be-devils any scholarly analysis of practically anything to do with Jesus and early Christianity, have a read of the postings of the...
Send Mike Lame Bible Prophecy Predictions for 2012
I just read through the comments and one reader asked about Ezekiel 29 -- how the passage is being used to predict yet future events (turns out in this case, before the 2012 doomsday; how ominous). I'm speaking at a conference in 2013 that may surprise some of you:...
The Harbinger: Ode to Biblical Illiteracy
I’ve been asked by a couple of readers if I’d read the best-selling book by Jonathan Cahn, The Harbinger. It reminded me of a day back in an apologetics class that I took with Norm Geisler. An enthused student asked Geisler when he came into the room...
Critiques of Pseudo-Archaeologists Appealing to Many Evangelical Christians
PaleoBabble readers know that I haven’t had positive things to say about the work of pseudo-archaeologists like Ron Wyatt and Robert Cornuke. The Bible Places blog recently posted some critiques of the latter. I think readers will find it informative and useful....
Baghdad Battery, the Saqqara Plane, and Other Not-So-Mysterious Artifacts
I just discovered the Archaeological Fantasies blog, a site that warmed my PaleoBabbling heart. The author has a short series entitled, “The 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts” in which many of you will be interested. Two caught my eye right away:...
What Really Happened with the Mayan Calendar
Ancient Aliens and Pseudo-Academics
I invite you all to read Jason Colavito’s short post entitled, “Ancient Aliens and Credential Inflation.” Claiming false credentials is irritating to an academic, like myself (and as those who know me know, I have a healthy disdain for the snobbery...
John the Baptist’s Bones Discovered (Again) – But Not in Noah’s Ark
Here we go again. Thanks for Mark Goodacre for this link describing efforts to date a knuckle to the first century. Wonderful how a first century knuckle be positively linked to John the Baptist? Now you understand the post title. It’s just paleobabble. My...
The CIA and Noah’s Ark
I wanted to pass on this amusing and interesting post from Jason Colavito as to “evidence” of CIA interest in alternative Noah’s ark discovery theories. I agree with Jason’s take. I’d be interested in any genuine CIA reports on...
Oldest Mayan Calendar Discovered: No Apocalypse in the Record
Pardon my yawn just now…. Anyone out there believe this primary data will stem the tide of the nonsensical hysteria? Nope; me neither. If the heretofore known Mayan primary material (which also does not predict the end of the world) didn’t rebut the...