Uriel's Machine

[helen99]

Wellp so much for all the fabulous claims made by Knight and Lomas in the book Uriel's Machine.

Here's the astronomical debunking: http://www.astunit.com/astrocrud/uriel.htm#Knight

This website provides a calculation showing why the Uriel's Machine authors' "megalithic yard" (the basis for their whole hypothesis) is wrong. After this site went up, the authors of the book emailed the site owner saying his debunking was based on spurious mathematics. He told them to email him back with calculations showing what was spurious about it, but they never answered...

Also, the UM authors like to quote alot from the apocryphal "Book of Enoch". I read the chapters they quoted for myself to check the authors' hypotheses. A lot of the passages quoted in Uriel's Machine are taken out of context -- they quoted disjointed fragments to support their statements. They also kept confusing "watchers" and "nephilim", using the two interchangeably, and had many silly grammar errors throughout the book.

There's a genre of books that has arisen that I like to call pseudo-masonic... It includes all the Rennes Le Chateau stuff and the "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" books, and the "Da Vinci Code offshoots (it's a work of fiction, folks!). It's based loosely on Masonic ritual and "secret knowledge", much of which I consider to be a patchwork of poorly understood philosophy and pseudo-science mixed with pseudo-religion and memorized dogma (not that this distinguishes it from many other, more populous sects). So what we have here is pseudo-pseudo.

Having said that, I did enjoy the book.

Comments

[fendahleen.livejournal.com]

Pretty much every "astronomical conspiracy theory" book I've ever read has proven to be completely unfounded, but they really are generally entertaining reads. I guess helps with suspension of disbelief when you're reading a total fairy tale you pulled from the non-fiction aisle.