Short Answer: Yes (at least for some, like Erich von Daniken). Slightly Longer Answer:Â Yes, because some presume that humans in antiquity were so primitive they could not build these things without the assistance of non-human intelligence. Then, an elect super-race...
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Ancient Astronaut Theory and Racism
I’ve blogged before about how the theory of ancient aliens being responsible for the monumental building of ancient Egypt and other contemporaneous civilizations is inherently racist. The idea is basically that the humans of Egypt and these other cultures were...
The Racism Behind Ancient Alien Mummy Hoaxes
Yep. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When ancient alien theorists (or Christian North American nephilim “race” theorists) insist those are the explanations for impressive engineering and architectural work (think Nazca lines,...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 159: Noah’s Nakedness, the Sin of Ham, and the Curse of Canaan
The episode of Noah’s drunkenness in Genesis 9 has long befuddled interpreters. One of Noah’s sons, Ham, commits some heinous crime against his father. Oddly, though, Ham is not the one cursed by his father. Instead, Ham’s son Canaan bears the wrath of Noah. 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...
Did Ancient Egyptians Identify Themselves as a Black Race?
I know I blogged about this recently, but I came across the item below today and thought I’d post it now instead of later. As to the question in the post title …. Short answer: No. Anyone who has look at Egyptian art knows that Egyptians portrayed...
A Blow to Racist Fringe History
Jason Colavito has an interesting post on some recent research that damages the Solutrean Hypothesis. For those who haven’t heard of this, Jason explains: Fringe history believers have long used the Solutrean claim as evidence for European primacy in the...
H2 Serves the Public with More Ancient Astronaut Racism
All who have read The Portent , the sequel to my novel, The Facade , know that one of the research threads in the sequel is the inherently racist nature of ancient astronaut theory — that is, it articulates the idea that the white European race (and even more...
The Racism of the Ancient Astronaut Theory
Readers will know that I’ve long thought the ancient astronaut theory is tinged with racist thinking. (Think about it — the AA theory says Egyptians and various South American civilizations couldn’t possibly have built their pyramids and temples...
Ancient Egyptians and Race
Some of you may have noticed in the comments that I replied to a commenter that the idea that ancient Egyptians were Negroes is nonsense (er, paleobabble). I thought I’d direct anyone interested in this to some resources. Here is a scholarly article that does a...
Promotion of Racist Theories Using the Bible
I recently discovered a book that I can’t wait to read called Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins (author: David Livingstone; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). The book is about how, in response to Darwinism, certain...
Leaked DNA Findings on King Tut
Very interesting post today over on Archaeoblog. The results of DNA testing on King Tut have been leaked a bit. Now, this isn’t paleobabble, so why note it? Because there are some items of interest to the paleobabblers out there: Genetic testing found evidence...
UFO Mythology as a Tool of the State, Part 1
I know a number of you have been wondering why I “assigned” the second PDF article, the one on folklore as a political tool of the Nazi regime. I wanted readers to think about how folklore or religion serves many purposes of a totalitarian regime. Indeed,...