Climate change and the alien gods of the Bible: an epiphany of epistemology.
As I was waiting for my train at the Milano station, last week, I toured a bookstore and I was attracted to a book titled “The Bible does not tell about God” written by Mauro Biglino. Books, books, books….. how many things are written in books? Never mind, I bought it and I read it. And here is a comment, not so much about the book itself, but about the epiphany it generated in me on how difficult it is to deal with such a complex world as ours has become. It is all, I think, a problem of epistemology, how we manage to know what we are supposed to know. And it is not easy.
First of all, about ancient aliens, I have to confess to you that in my youth I wasn’t just interested in that subject but, actually, addicted to it. You have probably heard of Eric Von Daniken; commonly considered the originator of the theory of the “ancient astronauts” having created the human civilization and perhaps humans as well. Perhaps you don’t know that Von Daniken had a precursor who wrote under the name of Peter Kolosimo – but he wrote in Italian and hence he is not so well known outside Italy.
I don’t know whether Von Daniken copied from Kolosimo, but I can tell you that in the 1960s I devoured Kolosimo’s books. A brilliant writer, a fascinating subject, a lot of fantasy. I can still find my handwritten notes about his books and I can see that, already as a teenager, I was trying to critically analyze Kolosimo’s claims. I think that at least part of my interest in science and in the cycles of civilizations comes from those books.
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