What if the world belived the authors of "Forbidden Archeology"?

[Mr. G]

What if the world believed the authors of "forbidden archeology" the hidden history of the human race??

In 1993 Michael Cremo and Richard L. Thompson published a book called "Forbidden Archeology: the secret history of the Human race" A book that came to the following conclusions: Note this list was taken from their web site http://www.mcremo.com
 We did not evolve from apes
 Abundant evidence against human evolution has been ignored
 Scientists cheat on a massive scale
 Museum displays use propaganda in promoting fallacious ideas to the public
 Human beings have been around before the time of the dinosaurs
 Signs of civilization have been found that are millions of years old
 Textbooks are inaccurate

Naturally most people found this too hard to believe. (Having read the book I find the ideas in it too hard to believe)
But what if the ASB's wave their hands (or wings) and suddenly everyone believes what's in the book is true. What happens next?

[Beck Reilly]

Wait, if we didn't evolve from apes, how did humans come to be according to the book?

[NapoleonXIV]

"...how did humans come to be according to the book?"
I ain't even looked at the website, betcha I know. ;) Well, I was close, we 'devolved' . This seems a new twist on 'god made us', since it sees us as gods, then apparently we made ourselves. Asking where we came from before that is probably blasphemy enough for anyone :D

In order to satisfy the ASB then probably the main thing that books like this always claim is being done to them would have to be done to reality. That is, a sort of "legitimacy police" would have to be established at Universities and research institutions to hold up 'establishment' views of science through ridicule and prohibition of any facts which don't fit the "new science" and propaganda supporting those that do

The effect on all the sciences would be incalculable. Evolution is a general overarching theory and the new 'theories' would have to explain away huge amounts of data from comparative anatomy, genetics, biochemistry, geology etc, etc.. all the while admitting that nothing they had said so far was truthful. The public would lose any belief they had in science almost instantly, turning to religion and beginning a new age of persecution. Within a decade science would be like the final development of medieval scholasticism; a sterile and static field constantly reiterating and reinforcing an 'accepted' body of knowledge and devoted wholly to its own preservation instead of progress.

Of course that's probably what the book says it is now. Instead of recognising that most all science consists of the ongoing defense of an evidenced hypothesis they treat the simple statement of "prove it" as a conspiracy.

Please note, any actual suppression of this or any other book as deceptive and damaging to science is far more damaging to science than any book could possibly be. Books like this are understandably maddening to actual workers in the field because it takes a book again to refute them. But very few people would have ever heard of Worlds in Collision if many Universities had not threatened to send their business elsewhere if it was published.

[David Howery]

technically, they are right about humans not evolving from apes... apes are specialized primates that had common ancestors with humans; they are not our ancestors, more like cousins on the primate tree....
other than that, it sounds like they are big on creationism, but apparently not, from what the others say on here....

[euio]

I think I read somewhere that 52% of Americans believe that humans coexisted with dinosaurs.

[Archangel Michael]

I think I read somewhere that 52% of Americans believe that humans coexisted with dinosaurs.

Super thread necromancy!

Of course, scientists cheat and use propoganda to further their own agendas. :rolleyes:

[Isot the Terrible]

technically, they are right about humans not evolving from apes... apes are specialized primates that had common ancestors with humans; they are not our ancestors, more like cousins on the primate tree....
other than that, it sounds like they are big on creationism, but apparently not, from what the others say on here....

You are completely wrong. Todays apes are not our ancestors, but our ancestors were apes. There is no common ancestor of all apes that is not also our ancestor.