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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProfessorPain" data-source="post: 4709403" data-attributes="member: 82012"><p>To be fair they did present other opinions, but they skewed so that the opposing viewpoints appeared weak. This guy has been around forever, claiming mainstream academia won't take his views seriously. When his "research" is really just a rehash of some pop-books that came out years before. The fact is, he doesn't really present evidence at all. All he does is draw conclusions from specious arguments. Most of his arguments boil down to gee this looks awfully like something aliens built. Or our ancestors were far too primitive to construct something this nice without the aid aliens. If you watch the show, there is never any actual proof presented. There is vague circumstantial evidence, that are explained with simpler arguments than aliens coming down and giving mankind a hand in the building process. The truth is ancient people were advanced in their own way. The greeks had all kinds of unusual devices and technologies. These were very smart civilizations. It does not take aliens to know how produce power from steam or design gears. Men like Von Daniken, just prey on peoples' ignorance of the past; and amaze them with things most historians already know.</p></blockquote><p></p>