Erich Von Daniken was born in Switzerland in 1935. He attended the College St-Michael in Fribourg, Switzerland and occupied his time with studying ancient holy writings. While he was a manager of a five-star hotel, he wrote his first book "Chariots of the Gods" in 1968, which quickly became a best seller in the United States and Germany. He received fame and recognition for a TV special called "In Search of Ancient Astronauts" which was based off of "Chariots of the Gods" in 1993. It's also said that Von Daniken is a compulsive traveler and travels around 100,000 miles every year to remote spots around the world to closely examine and research what he plans to write about. "Mysteries of the World" was a theme park that he built in 2003 in Interlaken,
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I often noticed that Von Daniken jumped around a lot on his topics and he would state his opinions and theories but he wouldn't take time to analyze why he had this thought process or gave any other support or evidence on what gave him this theory. What Von Daniken did a great job on explaining was how other life forms don't necessarily need water and oxygen to survive. He starts off by explaining that "Even on our own earth there are these forms of life that need no oxygen."(4) He continues to explain how a scientist actually re-created the atmospheric conditions of Jupiter in his lab and bred bacteria and mites in this simulated atmosphere. It was a great way to show to people that were on the fence about other planets out there that can sustain life and help open their minds a little more to the idea. "We owe it to our self-respect to be rational and objective."(6) Von Daniken declares that he wanted to raise questions than rather answering them, which he does and amazing job of doing "Admittedly this speculation is still full of holes. I shall be told that proofs are lacking. The future will show how many holes can be filled in. This book puts forward a hypothesis made up of many speculations, therefore the hypothesis must not be "true"."(65). But overall it made …show more content…
He used the expression "There can be no other explanation" way too many times and while on some occasions it could be true, I think he should've let the reader take the time to think about whatever theory was stated and make the decision for themselves, it somewhat took away for his credibility. He raises some important and interesting questions that everyone should consider and humans shouldn't look at history in black and white and maybe we aren't giving enough credit to the people of the ancients but some of the outstanding things that they did in the past seem too outstanding to have done it all on their own. Erich Von Daniken doesn't expect you to believe all of his assumptions, he just want people to open their minds to possibilities and to question life more and with that, I couldn't help but be greatly intrigued by this
I often noticed that Von Daniken jumped around a lot on his topics and he would state his opinions and theories but he wouldn't take time to analyze why he had this thought process or gave any other support or evidence on what gave him this theory. What Von Daniken did a great job on explaining was how other life forms don't necessarily need water and oxygen to survive. He starts off by explaining that "Even on our own earth there are these forms of life that need no oxygen."(4) He continues to explain how a scientist actually re-created the atmospheric conditions of Jupiter in his lab and bred bacteria and mites in this simulated atmosphere. It was a great way to show to people that were on the fence about other planets out there that can sustain life and help open their minds a little more to the idea. "We owe it to our self-respect to be rational and objective."(6) Von Daniken declares that he wanted to raise questions than rather answering them, which he does and amazing job of doing "Admittedly this speculation is still full of holes. I shall be told that proofs are lacking. The future will show how many holes can be filled in. This book puts forward a hypothesis made up of many speculations, therefore the hypothesis must not be "true"."(65). But overall it made …show more content…
He used the expression "There can be no other explanation" way too many times and while on some occasions it could be true, I think he should've let the reader take the time to think about whatever theory was stated and make the decision for themselves, it somewhat took away for his credibility. He raises some important and interesting questions that everyone should consider and humans shouldn't look at history in black and white and maybe we aren't giving enough credit to the people of the ancients but some of the outstanding things that they did in the past seem too outstanding to have done it all on their own. Erich Von Daniken doesn't expect you to believe all of his assumptions, he just want people to open their minds to possibilities and to question life more and with that, I couldn't help but be greatly intrigued by this