Stuart is on a roll. Fresh off this three-part series on the flat earth nonsense, here's an episode on the goofy Mandela Effect. Needless to say, I can hardly wait to listen.
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Pluto Fly-By Conspiracies: More Pseudo-Science
The fly-by photographs taken of Pluto as part of NASA's New Horizons mission to gather data on Pluto have been all the rage on the internet. Naturally, not everything has gone as expected; there have been technical glitches. Equally as normative, voices on the...
Directed Panspermia in the News
A commenter on my site informed me of this recent news item of interest for UFO Religions: UK Scientists: Aliens May Have Sent Space Seeds To Create Life On Earth The article is a serious one and not a parody. Here are the first two paragraphs along with the...
Plot Elements from The Portent In the News Since It Was Published
On the cover of The Portent (as was the case with The Facade before it) tells readers that the content elements of the storyline are all real. Some folks might think that's just marketing. It isn't. Since the release of The Portent this past August, several content...
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...
The Atacama Mummified Human Fetus … er, Alien
Yesterday I blogged about the upcoming Citizen's Hearing for Disclosure. Trust me when I say I'm hoping something substantive comes of it. Stephen Bassett has assembled a lot of people I'd consider credible (but I wouldn't say that about everyone on the witness list)....
Ancient Neolithic Tunnels: No Aliens Needed
You just have to check out this fascinating article: "Massive European network of Stone Age tunnels that weaves from Scotland to Turkey." Really cool. If you've ever visited underground caverns (or ridden a subway), you know that getting from Point A to Point B...
Easter Island, Gobekli Tepe, and Robert Schoch
Kudos are once again in order for Jason Colavito's seemingly boundless enthusiasm for exposing poor thinking (having a PhD doesn't mean someone thinks well ... boy could I tell stories). Anyway, Jason recently wrote the two essays that follow. They are in regard to...
On the Pointless Demand for Alien-Human DNA Testing
Readers of this blog and those who have listened to various interviews I have done this year know that I think the request by Zecharia Sitchin to have Sumerian Queen Puabi 's remains genetically tested to prove her alien heritage is silly. One of the primary problems...
Walton and Van Wolde: Hebrew Bara’ Does Not Mean “To Create”
John Hobbins has a helpful post offering links to the critiques of the thesis of Ellen Van Wolde that Hebrew bara' does not mean "create". John Walton's recent book The Lost World of Genesis 1, positively reviewed by me here and (soon) in print, has popularized this...
The Cosmology of Genesis 1 and the Old Testament’s Pre-Scientific Worldview
Naked Bible readers will remember I got into this issue several times during the discussion on inerrancy. It's current again for me for two reasons. One is N.T. Wright has chimed in on the subject in this video, which I offer for the curious (I'm not inclined to care...
Two Very Nice Blogs on the Pyramids
Part of combating PaleoBabble is exposing it -- and Egyptology seems to breed more paleo-nonsense than most fields. Another need is dispensing solid information in its place. I'm adding these two blogs to PaleoBabble's blogroll, but I wanted you to know about them...
Antikythera Mechanism Rebuilt – Replica Works Perfectly
This is pretty cool. So what does this ancient machine do? "In short, Antikythera's user interface is deceptively simple, operated by a simple knob on the side. This conceals the intricacy within, amounting to a complex mathematical model, tracking the movements of...
Does the Bible Teach Science? How the Bible’s Own Context Answers the Question
Here's the latest "infographic" video from Shaun. I think this audience will appreciate it a lot and find it useful for helping others to think through this issue. I've written (and commented in podcast episodes) that the Bible was not intended (by God) to teach...
Former Pentagon Aerospace ID Director: Some UFOs Still “Defy Explanation”
Precisely. As illustrated by one of the best scenes in X-Files history: Here's the article from the Daily Beast.