Joseph P. Laycock, "Unmasking the Alien Deception: Why Evangelicals Are Studying Ufology," Brill Handbook of UFO Religions, ed. Benjamin E. Zeller, pp. 103-115. Olav Hammer and Karen Swartz, "Ancient Aliens," pp. 151-177. Régis Dericquebourg, "Rael and the Raelians," pp. 472-490. "God … [Read more...]
Giants, Fairy Tales, and Erich von Däniken
“ ‘Giants’ keep cropping up in all parts of the globe: in the mythology of East and West, in the sagas of Tiahuanaco and the epics of the Eskimos. ‘Giants’ haunt the pages of almost all ancient books. So they must have existed.” —Erich von Däniken, Chariots of the Gods “There aren’t any such … [Read more...]
“Chariots of the Gods?” – Erich von Däniken and the Book of Enoch
I didn’t get a chance to tell Erich von Däniken, when he and I were guests together last week on Gene Steinberg’s “The Paracast” radio show, that the first time I read his Chariots of the Gods? it was in Hebrew. This was in the summer of 1978, nine years after Chariots was first published. I was … [Read more...]