The Hidden History of the Human Race (The Condensed Edition of Forbidden Archeology)

No one should be afraid to read this book --- It really worth the time spent, and it certainly is not a boring book. It is easy to read, and you can start at ANY page you wish. But, if you accept a piece of advice to begin, pay special attention to the ONE stars' reviews. I could believe in - two, three, or four stars as being a honest and reliable one, but ONE star, in the case of this book, could mean *WAR*. A desperate attack w/ no TRUE consideration to the value of the book - only defending the Darwinism establishment under siege.One could consider that it is not a matter if we agree or disagree, Darwinism is a theory of evolution. Darwinism is a theory only. It is not a fact. Many people believe it is an established, scientific fact. It is not. Scientists have been searching the world over for the missing link, but it has NEVER been found, as the foremost scientists readily admit.That is flat, but nevertheless it is the verdict of the foremost scientists of the world today. Darwinism is an accumulation of probabilities without proof, and of attractive explanations without demonstration. Science is experimental. It is changing continually. What it teaches today it discards tomorrow. In the process of change science assumes various temporary forms.In this way one could say that some negative reviews are in fact an attempt to STOP people from reading this material. But the more people know about anything the less dictatorial they become on that subject.That is why real scientists tread the ground carefully. True science knows its limitations. The great scientists are humble and conservative. They know the difference between theory and fact. They distrust themselves and their findings.------------------------------------The authors sould be congratulated, because they spent eight years producing the only definitive, precise, exhaustive and complete record of pratically all the fossil finds of man, regardless of wheter they fit the established scientific theories or not. NO other book of this caliber EXISTS. It should be compulsory reading for every first year biology, archeology and anthropology student and many others, too! The authors` UNIQUE perspective provides postmodern scholars with an invaluable parallax view of historical scientific praxis, debate, and development.------------------------------------This volume combines a vast amount of both accepted and controversial evidence from the archeological record with sociological, philosophical, and historical critiques of the scientific method to challenge existing views and expose the suppression of information concerning history and human origins.-------------SOME say that the Vedic backgroud of the autor is one of the problems. This is absurd, since the book contain no religious arguments of any sort, Hindu-oid or otherwise. But in fact it explains that the time concept of modern archeology, and modern anthropology in general, resembles the general cosmological-historical time concept of Europe`s Judeo-Christian culture, and that modern archeology also shares w/ Judeo-Christian teology the idea that humans appear after the other major species.-------------Perhaps as a first step our textbooks should be more realistic and honest about what we know and don't know.I've decided to give the authors a chance. And ---The book reveals that over the past two centuries researchers have found bones and artifacts showing that people like ourselves existed on earth millions of years ago. But the scientific establishment has ignored these remarkable facts because they contradict the dominant views of human origins and antiquity. Cremo and Thompson challenge us to rethink our understanding of human origins, identity, and destiny. And invites us to take a courageous first step towards a new perspective.You can find a sample chapter at (mcremo dot com)----------------Some consider the purpose of science SHOULD be to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws and the processes of nature.----------------OR to serve humanity, explain how things happen. And the quality of that service depends on the person or persons using science."The only statement consistent with her dignity that science can make is to say that she knows nothing about the origin of man." (Modern Biology, p. 480.)Are some of us attached to Darwinism for reasons other than really scientific ones?ON Darwinism -Darwinism is an attempt to explain how one species of plant or animal changed into another altogether distinct and different species. Darwinism, therefore, takes for granted that evolution is a fact, namely, that the various species we see in the world today are transitions from preceding different species.Yet today in many of our school text-books students are taught that in accordance with Darwinism man has descended from the monkey. If you call in question their infallibility they will give you a look of pity.The author attests that there are TWO kinds of Darwinists. The first is the fundamentalist type and the second more open-minded Darwinists that can give platforms to present diferent views at scientific societies, scientific conferences, and science departments at universities around the world.There are some scientists who have reported that Homo habilis (the "handy man") and Australopithecus afarensis ("Lucy") were constructed from bones of two or more species, yet these hominids also do have their supporters.Despite the controversy, models of these hominids are in fact STILL displayed in many museums. These exhibits give no hint of the controversy that exists about these creatures in the scientific world. In this way, people are being MISLED.Of course, the museums also give no hint of the archeological evidence for extreme human antiquity, the evidence that shows that humans like us existed alongside our supposed ape-man ancestors, like Homo habilis and Australopithecus afarensis.A variation of a species is not an essentially different species. And - even if evolution were a fact, Darwinism does not and cannot explain it. The foremost scientists of the world are now agreed that Darwin's theory of natural selection does not work all the times.----------------Mr Cremo is not the ONLY person challenging the now dominant Darwinian theory of evolution. That doctrine is now under sustained attack from many directions.----------------Some say that supporters of the Darwinist paradigm are now in the beginning stages of a major crisis, as can be judged from the volume of the howls of protest coming from them.Indeed, according to philosopher of science, Karl Popper, all scientific theories must be "falsifiable," that is, subject to prediction, testing and falsification. In his book, Conjectures and Refutations, he explains, "There will be well-testable theories, hardly testable theories, and non-testable theories. Those which are non-testable are of no interest to empirical scientists. They may be described as metaphysical.""It must be acknowledged that Forbidden Archeology brings to attention many interesting issues that have not received much consideration from historians; and the authors' detailed examination of the early literature is certainly stimulating and raises questions of considerable interest, both historically and from the perspective of practitioners of sociology of scientific knowledge." Jo Wodak and David Oldroyd, in Social Studies of Science, Vol. 26(1), 1996, p. 196.--------------------------------According to a statement of a dear friend of mine:"As an undergraduate anthropology major, my first physical anthropology course was quite an experience. It was the 1st meeting of the class that is hard to forget. In the midst of jokes there was an unsettling undercurrent. The instructor was not so jovial about one thing: that Darwinian evolution was a FACT and NOT a THEORY. She warned us in no uncertain terms that she would entertain NO questions with regard to the facticity of evolution. What struck me as odd at the time was her tone of exasperation at even the anticipation of an underling wasting her time arguing this 'fact.'""Well, noses run in my family too. I knew, right off the proverbial bat wing, that something smelled fishy, but it took me several years to realize that she was only one of the countless college professors, biologists, science writers, scientific researchers, philosophers, and publishers with a vested psychological, emotional and financial interest in Darwinian evolution. Evolutionary theorists bank on the hope that this theory is too complicated for most of us to fathom, and that we will not ask questions out of fear of appearing ignorant of the supposed facts. More often than not, however, the questions most people have about evolution are very appropriate and intelligent. The truth is, some logic and a little horse sense is really all you need to understand what Darwin was trying to say. It's the mess his followers, so-called neo-Darwinists, have made of it that often takes real patience to decipher"--------------------------------For quite the same reasons as above, British astronomer, Sir Fred Hoyle, proponent of the Modern Theory of Panspermia, has mathematically dismissed the chance of evolution being an actual occurrence, arguing that "even if the whole Universe consisted of organic soup ... the chance of producing merely the basic enzymes of life by random processes without intelligent direction would be about 1 over a 1 with 40,000 zeros after it; a probability too small to imagine."Hoyle concludes that "Darwinian evolution is most unlikely to get even one polypeptide sequence right, let alone the thousands on which living cells depend for survival."-----------------------To finish my review --------------------------=>Darwin's Many Errors<=Numerous books could be written about Darwin's many errors, and many excellent books have been written.Another of Darwin's significant errors was actually the basis for his natural selection hypothesis: that is, the "struggle for existence." Darwin drew an analogy from Thomas Malthus's view of the human "struggle for existence" to animals in the wild, claiming that animals fight for the same "niches." Darwin proposed that due to this struggle animals were forced to evolve into subsidiary forms in order to survive in different niches.In fact, as we now know from a profusion of animal studies, animal populations do not conform to this prognosis. As Lee Spetner notes, "Darwin erred in the insight that led him to his theory of evolution.Animals do not hug the brink of disaster. Population size is not controlled by starvation, disease or predation. Populations are kept in check ... by intrinsic forces built into the animals themselves."There is no struggle for existence in the animal world. This point is also made starkly clear in James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis's GAIA Theory.Darwin's second error, according to Spetner, is that if positive mutations occurred often enough, they "may readily become established in the populations."As Spetner notes, this has been shown to be wrong. "Darwin erroneously thought that even the smallest improvements would be selected," in individuals and saved in the population like hitting the "saved" button.In fact, paleontologist, George Gaylord Simpson, acknowledged that "a single mutation has little chance of staying in the population." Spetner points out a common error in popular Darwinist writings that might lead to this misconception. Darwinists tend to transpose the language of "transmission genetics" (how individuals pass on their genes to descendants) into the language of "population genetics" (how gene frequencies change in a population) without noting that they are talking about two different things.=======================================(Spetner, 56) Following is a list of just some of the problematic assumptions of the NDT that Spetner magnificently highlights:* =>Genetic rearrangements appear to be non-random they occur with precision* =>Mutations in higher animals are infrequent* =>Rarity of copying errors, low error rates in DNA copying* =>NDT allows only the smallest mutation rate. A mutation must be both beneficial and must also add a little bit of information to the genome, but not too much information* =>In order to explain all the complexity around us, a mutation must add information. There are no known, clear examples of a mutation that has added information.* =>The mutation that leads to the improvement must be a dominant gene, that is, must be expressed in the phenotype even if it's on only one of the two chromosomes that carries the gene. Otherwise, the male and female (if it were a recessive gene) would have to find each other to mate.* =>A mutation, even if favorable, has a small chance of establishing itself in the species if it occurs only once. Slight individual improvements have a tendency to disappear in the population.* =>Small populations promote the survival of a single gene more than large ones do. This poses a problem for the NDT.As Spetner writes, "The events necessary for cumulative selection are much too improbable to build a theory on.The events needed for the origin of life are even more improbable."Spetner concludes:There may be good reasons for being an atheist, but the neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution isn't one of them.- Lee Spetner, Not By Chance----------------------------------Suggested Reading in - Darwinian Dissent / Intelligent Design / History of Science / Conscious Universe*Gregory Bateson, et. al.Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred.Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences).Sacred Unity.*Michael Behe, et al.Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge To Evolution.Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe.*David BohmThought As a System.The Undivided Universe.Wholeness and the Implicate Order.*Deepak Chopra, et. al.The Conscious Universe.The Cosmic Mind and the Submanifest Order of Being.The Quantum Physics of Soul and Spirit.Science and Soul: The Survival of Consciousness After Death.*Michael CremoForbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race (1998)The Hidden History of the Human Race (Condensed Edition) (1999)Forbidden Archeology's Impact: How a Controversial New Book Shocked the Scientific Community and Became an Underground Classic (1998)Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory (2003)*William Dembski, et. al.The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities.The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design.How Blind Is the Watchmaker?: Nature's Design

A central theme of this book is bias, in this case, the deeply entrenched biases of the mainstream scientific community. So let me put my own bias on the table right away: To me, the word "creationism" is a dirty word and "Christian creationism" makes me gag.It doesn't help that the authors, Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson are "Vedic creationists." Rather than using a Biblical perspective the challenge the prevailing scientific view on the evolution of humans, the authors proclaim to be adherents of "Lord Krishna" and subscribe to the Vedic view that modern human beings have inhabited planet earth not for some 100,000 years, but millions or even billions of years.But putting this aside, and keeping an open mind, there is much to like and ponder in the information presented by this book, and the way it is presented - for the most part."The Hidden History of the Human Race" does not read like another sensational `ancient astronaut' screed ala Erich Von Daniken. It's more like an almost too sober text book. These guys are at least attempting a genuine, reasoned argument to debunk those who are usually the debunkers. Cremo and Thompson have scoured the academic records of paleontologists going back about 200 years, and they attempt to show just how incredibly imperfect, biased and downright delusional the work of "real"scientists can beAnd they do a credible job of presenting a convincing portrait of stumbling, bumbling bone diggers, hungry for fame and peer prestige, making whopping assumptions, altering evidence, cherry-picking data, ignoring glaring evidence that does not support their own "religion" of evolution - and much more.I'm not with those who criticize Cremo and Thompson on the basis of not being degreed paleontologists or archaeologists, which they are not - or even that everything in this book as been "thoroughly debunked." That's just not true. The authors put forward troubling evidence showing that the modern scientific view of evolution has problems, sometimes propped up by shaky and or even nonexistent evidence.On the other hand, the authors are clearly, at times, if not biased in their own approach, are not presenting all the evidence they could in a balanced way. A prime example is their offering of the Klerpsdorf spheres found in South Africa in a strata known to be at least 2 billion years old. Cremo and Thompson suggest these objects are of intelligent design (meaning humans made them) - yet the alternate view of scientists on Klerpsdorf objects is well-known, and a very convincing and thorough case has been made that the objects are natural formations of nature, not man made.The point is, if Cremo and Thompson were willing to foist off Klerpsdorf spheres onto their readers as part of their evidence - and did not feel the need to include an additional page to give the obvious alternate view of what they are - then this suggests they are self deluded (at least in this one example) or are deliberately deluding their readers.Still, mainstream scientists are guilty of the same practices all the time in their quest for fame, research grants, promotions and prestige. So the bottom line for me is: This is a book well worth reading, the authors make some strong cases on enough points of evidence to make this book worthy of serious consideration, and not to be simply scoffed at by "skeptics" who cannnot or are unwilling to think outside the box.

Very informative lots of evidence. I was expect a different kind of book, its was too intillectual for me

The evidence presented in this book is overwhelming. Our species is much older than we ever imagined. Reading this book will confound everything you thought you knew about evolution.

This, the 1994 abridged version of “Forbidden Archeology” dusts off a lot of very old paleoanthropological evidence in a scholarly fashion. The book does not seek to undermine the theory of evolution but does suggest that the conventional timeline for the evolution of mankind may not be correct. Home sapiens seem to have been around much longer than orthodox science will admit to. Yet it is, inevitably it is a dry, dull, read, being, as it is, about fossils.If the casual reader is bored by such esoteric discussions then there is a second over-arching narrative of equal importance & possible greater interest: the difficulties 'heretics' face in overthrowing scientific orthodoxy. This, if anything is the book’s main takeaway. Scientists from the 19th Century were less fixed in their assumptions because the science of Evolution was still young. Since that time academics seem to no longer look (or see) evidence for anomalous finds. 19th Century anomalies have largely been edited out of the collective memory. By the 1890s, Eugene Dubois discovered the Java ape-man and most scientists accepted this as a genuine human ancestor. By the 1950s, scientific opinion was lining up solidly behind an Early Pleistocene African centre for human evolution. The authors conclude “because Java man was found in Middle Pleistocene strata, the extensive evidence for toolmaking hominids in the far earlier Pliocene and Miocene periods no longer received much serious attention.” The morphology of the remains was used to date them rather than theories made to fit the evidence. This is bad science. Yet paleo-anthropology is an odd sort of science with the authors stating that it “is often subject to multiple, contradictory interpretations. Partisan considerations often determine which view prevails at any given point in time.”Thus there evolved a double-standard for assessing evidence: if the artefact fitted the dogma it was accepted uncritically. Artefacts from an anomalous earlier period were simply rejected with seemingly-scientific reasoning despite them being indistinguishable for items that fit the orthodoxy. “Scientists typically demand higher levels of proof for anomalous finds than for evidence that fits within the established ideas about human evolution.” “…if one were to apply such sceptic’s extreme scepticism across the board one could raise suspicions of fraud about almost every paleo-anthropological discovery ever made.” Scientists are allegedly in fear of their jobs and reputations if they were to endorse anything that didn’t fit the dogma. “Evidence that contradicts the idea of human evolution is carefully screened out. Therefore, when one reads textbooks about human evolution, one may think, “Well, the idea of human evolution must be true because all the evidence supports it.” But such textbook presentations are misleading, for it is the unquestioned belief that humans did in fact evolve from apelike ancestors that has determined what evidence should be included and how it should be interpreted.”However some caution is required. The authors are both members of a branch of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. It studies the relationship between modern science and the world view expressed in the Vedic literature of India. It is from this literature that the authors derived the idea that various humanlike and apelike beings have coexisted for a longer period of time than is currently recognised. This is very much akin to Biblical Creationism although the authors do not present any theologically-based alternative timelines. To make things worse the authors have a conspiracy theory about the Rockefeller Foundation whom they accuse of promoting the “goal of big science—control, by scientists, of human behaviour”. Hence some of the evidence is treated somewhat uncritically. Take for example the “carved shell” from Red Crag, England (1881) by H Stopes – you can look this up on the web and find an illustration. One online authority described the “carving” as nothing more than random and naturally occurring cuts on the shell. Looking at it you would probably agree. However this books remains excellent food for thought – whatever you believe.

Something isn't quite right, is it what we believe our history to be or our understanding of geology. This book and the evidence collected is very important and show time and time again that something is wrong or missing from history, geology or both. Love it. Great book.

The book goes through that wealth of information that the human race is way older than generally accepted, reviews the archeological evidence that existed for more than a century but is overlooked by the main stream scientists. And on the sidelines it remembers the reader the perils that the scientists expose themselves to when they go against the "general wisdom", not only in the field of history/antropology but in any scientific field

Excellent condensed version of the doorstep original. The examples keep coming and coming of how we have clearly got so much wrong in our understanding of our origins and many of our theories on evolution and the emergence of modern man need to be radically re-thought but it's an uphill battle, because existing theories and scientific speculation have become Recieved Knowledge that cannot be questioned, and any examples that emerge that serious do so, are either at first studiously ignored or if that doesn't work, debunked by a propaganda machine Geobbels would have been proud of. An intelligent, cogent book, that anyone with a serious interest in archaeology and primeval history must read.

A fascinating subject and an interesting spin on the past