Ancient Astronauts Theory

“The ancient astronaut theory all started in 1968, when Swiss researcher and author Erich Von Daniken published a book known as Chariots of the Gods, which became an immediate bestseller.” Within the book he put his hypothesis that, “‘the technology and religions of many ancient civilizations were given to them by ancient astronauts who were welcomed as gods” (Ancient Astronaut Theory). In the book he gives evidence and reasons as to why he believes in this theory, but one thing is wrong with all this. All the “evidence” stating that ancient astronauts visited earth, inspired human culture, and influenced human advancement; things such as cave paintings, stone artifacts, and ancient structures; it’s all just art and architecture, we have no …show more content…
All the ancient little stone artifacts could have very well just been that. Toys for the younger children to play with, even now we give our children fun little toys to keep them busy and their imaginations busy. These can’t possibly be listed as concrete evidence because there’s no evidence to back it up and prove that those paintings and those artifacts were inspired by ancient astronauts. They don’t even prove if ancient astronauts really visited Earth. That leads me to my next argument on ancient astronauts, proof of visitation by ancient astronauts. Ancient astronaut theorists are constantly claiming that there is concrete evidence on ancient astronaut visitation. One most commonly used is the ancient astronauts in The Bible and other ancient texts. They use “evidence” from the Sodom and Gomorrah story; the story in which the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed. Let us imagine for a moment that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed according to the ancient astronaut theorist’s theory; the theory that these biblical cities were destroyed by a nuclear blast and not by the angels. The theory just makes zero sense right off the bat, because not once is there any mention of the shock wave