ALIENS THE ULTIMATE DOOM SERIES

ALIENS THE ULTIMATE DOOM SERIES

When giving public presentations about evolution and creationism, Gish rapidly spouted off a series of misinterpretations and falsehoods to bury his opponent under an avalanche of fictions and distortions. This is a common technique among cranks and self-appointed challengers of science it is called Gish Gallop after young earth creationist Duane Gish. There was so much wrong with the Ancient Aliens episode that I could spend all week trying to counteract every incorrect assertion. What results is a slimy and incomprehensible mixture of idle speculation and outright fabrications which pit the enthusiastic вЂњancient alien theorists,вЂќ as the narrator generously calls them, against вЂњmainstream science.вЂќ I would say вЂњYou canвЂ™t make this stuff up,вЂќ but I have a feeling that that is exactly what most of the showвЂ™s personalities were doing. The episode is what you would get if you dropped some creationist propaganda, Erich von DГ¤nikenвЂ™s Chariots of the Gods and stock footage from Jurassic Fight Club into a blender. Given my restrictions, I have little choice but to try to encapsulate the shiny, documentary-format rubbish in a more coherent and reader-sensitive way. If they did, my entire review would be little more than a string of expletives. IвЂ™m actually glad that my editors donвЂ™t allow me to cuss a blue streak on this blog. I steeled myself for the pain and watched the mind-melting madness unfold. But then I heard the History ChannelвЂ™s slurry of pseudoscience had taken on dinosaurs. Or, at the very least, watching the show would kill about as many brain cells as a weekend bender in Las Vegas. I had a feeling that if I watched the show-which popularizes far-fetched, evidence-free idiocy about how human history has been molded by extra-terrestrial visitors-my brain would jostle its way out of my skull and stalk the earth in search of a kinder host.

Until now, I have assiduously avoided Ancient Aliens.

Aliens the ultimate doom