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Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-318)

Introduction Part One. The Old Paradigms Don't Work: Darwinism and Creationism Under Fire 1. Darwin's Demise: On the Futile Search for Missing Links ? Will Hart 2. Evolution Versus Creation: Is the Debate for Real? ? David Lewis 3. Exposing a Scientific Cover-Up: Forbidden Archeology Coauthor Michael Cremo Talks About the "Knowledge Filter" and Other Means for Cooking the Academic Books ?Doug Kenyon Part Two. Making the Case for Catastrophism: Earth Changes, Sudden and Gradual 4. In Defense of Catastrophes: Pioneering Geologist Robert Schoch Challenges the Conventional Wisdom of Natural History ?Bill Eigles 5. Cataclysm 9500 BC: Two New Works of Immense Scholarship Throw Orthodox Ice Age Theories into Question and, in the Process, Corroborate Plato and Many Other Ancient Sources ? David Lewis 6. The Case for the Flood: Exposing the Scientific Myth of the Ice Age ? Peter Bros. 7. The Martyrdom of Immanuel Velikovsky: As Catastrophists Gain Ground, an Early Hero Gets Some Long Overdue Credit ? John Kettler. 8. The Perils of Planetary Amnesia: As Evidence of Ancient Cataclysm Mounts, the Legacy of a Rejected Genius is Reconsidered ? Steve Parsons 9. Thunderbolts of the Gods: Does Growing Evidence of an Electric Universe Reveal Previously Hidden Meaning in Ancient Mythology? ? Mel and Amy Acheson Part Three. Civilizations Greater Antiquity 10. The Enigma of India's Origins: The Dating of New Discoveries in the Gulf of Cambay Upsets the Othodox Scenario for the Dawn of Civilization ? David Lewis 11. Pushing Back the Portals of Civilization: For John Anthony West the Quest for Evidence of Advanced Pre-Historic Civilization Is Bearing New Fruit ?Doug Kenyon 12. New Studies Confirm Very Old Sphinx: Orthodox Protests Notwithstanding, Evidence for the Schoch/West Thesis is Growing ? Robert M. Schoch, PhD 13. R.A. Schwaller De Lubicz's Magnum Opus: The Keys to Understanding the Wisdom of the Ancients Have Been Preserved ? Joseph Ray 14. Fingerprinting the Gods: A Bestselling Author Is Making a Convincing Case for a Great but Officially Forgotten Civilization ? Doug Kenyon 15. The Central American Mystery: What Could Explain the Failure of Mainstream Science to Unravel the Origins of Meso-America's Advanced Ancient Cultures? ? Will Hart 16. Destination Galactic Center: John Major Jenkins Thinks Today's World Has Much to Learn from the Ancient Mayans ? Moira Timmes Part Four. Searching for the Fountainhead 17. Megalithic England: The Atlantean Dimensions, A Conversation with John Michell ? Doug Kenyon 18. Plato, The Truth: How Does the Credibility of the Best-Known Chronicler of Atlantis Stand Up? ? Frank Joseph 19. The Aegean Atlantis Deception: Was Plato's Grand Tale Nothng More than the Saga of an Insignifican Greek Island? ? Frank Joseph 20. Atlantology: Psychotic or Inspired? Media Stereosyptes Aside, What Kind of Person Pursues Knowledge of a Forgotten Civilization? ? Frank Joseph 21. Atlantis in Antartica: Forget About the North Atlantic and the Aegean, Says Author Rand Flem-Ath ? Doug Kenyon 22. Blueprint from Atlantis: Do Alignments of Ancient Monuments Have Something to Tell Us about the History of Earth's Shifting Crust? ?Rand Flem-Ath 23. Japan's Underwater Ruins: Have Remains of Ancient Lemuria Been Found? ? Frank Joseph 24. Underwater Towers Located Near Japan: Lemurian Possibilities Make Big Waves on Fuji Television ? Frank Joseph 25. West, Schoch, and Hancock Dive into Lemurian Waters ?Doug Kenyon 26. India 30,000 BC: Do the Roots of Indian Culture Lie Drowned Beneath the Indian Ocean? ? David Lewis Part Five. Ancient High Tech 27. A Conversation with Peter Tompkins: Secrets of Forgotten Worlds ? Doug Kenyon 28. Ancient Agriculture, In Search of the Missing Links: Is the Inescapable Evidence of a Lost Fountainhead of Civilization to be Found Growing in our Fields? ?Will Hart 29. Atlantean Technology: How Advanced? What Does the Evidence Really Show? ? Frank Joseph 30. Archaeology and the Law of Gravity: Orthodox Theory of Ancient Capability Tends to Cave in Under Its Own Weight ?Will Hart 31. An Engineer in Egypt: Did the Ancient Egyptians Possess Tool-Making Skills Comparable to Those of the Space Age? ? Christopher Dunn 32. The Giza Power Plant, Technologies of Ancient Egypt: A New Book Challenges Conventional Wisdom on the Intended Purpose of the Great Pyramid ? Christopher Dunn 33. Return to the Giza Power Plant: Technologist Christopher Dunn Finds New Fuel for His Thesis ? Christopher Dunn 34. Petrie on Trial: Have Arguments for Advanced Ancient Machining Made by the Great Nineteenth-Century Egyptologist Wir William Flinders Petrie Been Disproved? Christopher Dunn Takes On the Debunkers ? Christopher Dunn 35. How Did the Pyramid Builders Spell Relief? Do We Really Know Why the Ancients Used Such Giant Stones in the Pyramid's So-Called Relieving Chambers? ? Christopher Dunn 36. Precision: Did the Ancients Have It? And If They did, Should It Matter to Us? ?Christopher Dunn 37. The Obelisk Quarry Mystery: Do Egyptologists Really Know How These Monuments Were Created? ? Christopher Dunn 38. Behind the Pyramid's Secret Doors: What Does Astonishing New Evidence Reveal about the Great Pyramid's True Purpose? ? Chistopher Dunn 39. The Case for Advanced Technology in the Great Pyramid: What Does the Evidence Really Show about the Advancement of Its Builders? ? Marshall Payne Part Six. New Paradigms to Ponder 40. Visitors from Beyond: Our Civilization Is a Legacy from Space Travelers, says Zecharia Sitchin, and his New Book Offers to Unveil New Secrets of Divine Encounters ? Doug Kenyon 41. Artifacts in Space: For Author Richard Hoagland the Trail of Ancient ETs Is getting Much Warmer ? Doug Kenyon 42. The Pulsar Mystery: Could the Enigmatic Phenomenon Be the Work of an Ancient ET Civilization? A New Scientific Study Makes the Astonishing Case ? Len Kasten 43. The Physicist as Mystic ? David Lewis Recommended Reading: Selected Bibliography List of Contibutoring Authors

Challenges the scientific theories on the establishment of civilization and technology • Contains 42 essays by 17 key thinkers in the fields of alternative science and history, including Christopher Dunn, Frank Joseph, Will Hart, Rand Flem-Ath, and Moira Timmes • Edited by Atlantis Rising publisher, J. Douglas Kenyon In Forbidden History writer and editor J. Douglas Kenyon has chosen 42 essays that have appeared in the bimonthly journal Atlantis Rising to provide readers with an overview of the core positions of key thinkers in the field of ancient mysteries and alternative history. The 17 contributors include among others, Rand Flem-Ath, Frank Joseph, Christopher Dunn, and Will Hart, all of whom challenge the scientific establishment to reexamine its underlying premises in understanding ancient civilizations and open up to the possibility of meaningful debate around alternative theories of humanity's true past. Each of the essays builds upon the work of the other contributors. Kenyon has carefully crafted his vision and selected writings in six areas: Darwinism Under Fire, Earth Changes--Sudden or Gradual, Civilization's Greater Antiquity, Ancestors from Space, Ancient High Tech, and The Search for Lost Origins. He explores the most current ideas in the Atlantis debate, the origins of the Pyramids, and many other controversial themes. The book serves as an excellent introduction to hitherto suppressed and alternative accounts of history as contributors raise questions about the origins of civilization and humanity, catastrophism, and ancient technology. The collection also includes several articles that introduce, compare, contrast, and complement the theories of other notable authors in these fields, such as Zecharia Sitchin, Paul LaViolette, John Michell, and John Anthony West.