It's pretty easy to take on an idea like Ancient Aliens, Nephelim, Planet-X and find a compelling counter argument presented in a video. But, keep in mind that Evolution is still only a theory, even though it is widely accepted. I believe that to really understand something like ancient megalithic structures like Göbekli Tepe that has been dated as 12,000 years old, you have to do a lot more looking at the evidence both supporting and detracting from the evidence to make an informed decision. Otherwise it's just entertainment to support your already well formed opinion on these matters.

Sumeria was thought to be the earliest civilization known to exist, from 5,000 BCE - 1,750 BCE. With that in mind, explain Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, Sacsayhuaman and Machu Picchu in Peru, Some of the stones at these sites weigh a hundred tons and were moved 30 miles from the quarry where they were carved, with no wood for roller at those elevations. We still can't say how the pyramids were constructed and the people who built these would be considered primatives.

Having an opinion is fine, but it takes more than a video or two to really understand the science and history being contested. And, I also must say that if you allow for the possibility of alien existence, you are talking about civilizations able to travel interstellar distances. That suggest races with technologies and capabilities thousands or millions of years more advanced than ours. So as silly as some of the stuff on Ancient Aliens seems, it is quite conceivable that we could have been a destination for a long long time.

WellI I am not one of them, but I might change my mind if someone unearthed actual evidence like a titanium alloy bolt from undisturbed 10,000 year old strata. I suspect I will die still waiting.

I am with you Michael. I view Ancient Aliens for entertainment value. Everybody has to make living right I like watching the professionals show a practical method on how they believe the ancients drilled holes in stone or moved large stone, and sawed stone and this feeds my intellectual interest (its all good). Thanks for sharing this. It is put together in a nice package. I have seen a lot of the footage on various programs, but it is really nice to have it all together. I would like to state that it is hard not to believe that there is intelligent life somewhere else in this vast universe. Do you agree?

You might want to read "the eleventh planet". Just saying.

Dam you!

I just spent almost 3 hours watching that. It was rather delicious seeing him shred Ancient Aliens, most of the theories I have had issues with for years. I know that throughout most of my youth, Von Daniken's theories just lingered out there as a possibility, but who really had the time and inclination to dissect them all?

However, that being said, the one thing this debunking doc was not able to explain, and in fact piqued my interest even further, was the last segment on the Nephalem Giants. Now I'm seriously wanting to find a real scientific explanation for the global origins of this belief. Googling doesn't help much, since the majority of hits are Biblical apologist sites, or on hoaxes.

Anyone know more about this? Any suggestions?

Ancient Aliens is the biggest insult to humanity's accomplishments since God.

The "Ancient Aliens" series, while entertaining, frames half-truths and incomplete data as evidence of aliens having visited Earth and cultivated human civilization or otherwise meddled in human development. I love the debunking video because it actually shows how the "Ancient Aliens" guys are, at best, bad at being historians and, at worst, outright liars.

Cool.

interesting

Is it just me or does David Childress sound permanently sarcastic?

I had a lovely chat with an employee of my company a couple of years back about his theory that aliens helped Muhammad to build the Great Pyramid of Giza. He's a nice chap, so I didn't have the heart to tell him the Pyramid had already been there for more than 3000 years by the time Muhammad was born.

I've watched this about 3 times, it's fantastic, I have a passion for history and that show has been murdering it for seasons now. This is the documentary that helped break up a past relationship, she believed and I did not, I may have put it on the TV one evening in the background to gauge a reaction, boy did I get one! I've never heard denial like it!

Years ago one Erich von Däniken came up with this hypothesis. He was popular and wrote several books on of which "Chariots of the Gods" became a big seller. The big problem I see is it has the same problem with (a ) god. Where or when did the aliens originate? At some point in time life must have had a start. Part of his theory was shown in the movie "A Space Odyssey" where the monkeys came to a large, vertical slab of polished black stone which was supposed to signify some prior being had visited the Earth.

If you haven't already read it, I recommend John Sladek's *New Apocrypha"