{"id":17051,"date":"2016-01-28T11:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T16:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17051"},"modified":"2016-01-28T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T16:36:46","slug":"climate-change-and-the-alien-gods-of-the-bible-an-epiphany-of-epistemology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17051","title":{"rendered":"Climate change and the alien gods of the Bible: an epiphany of epistemology."},"content":{"rendered":"

Climate change and the alien gods of the Bible: an epiphany of epistemology.<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Fish-god and assorted alienities from an ancient Sumerian cylinder seal (image\u00a0from wikipedia<\/a>). Nothing real but, oh, so fascinating!<\/i><\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Eric Von Daniken<\/a>; 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\u00a0of Peter Kolosimo<\/a>\u00a0– but he wrote in Italian and hence he is not so well known outside Italy.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Climate change and the alien gods of the Bible: an epiphany of epistemology. Fish-god and assorted alienities from an ancient Sumerian cylinder seal (image\u00a0from wikipedia). Nothing real but, oh, so fascinating! As I was waiting for my train at the Milano station, last week, I toured a bookstore and I was attracted to a book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10777,141,3116,12033,12034,2692],"class_list":["post-17051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-cassandras-legacy","tag-climate-change","tag-epistemology","tag-eric-von-daniken","tag-peter-kolosimo","tag-ugo-bardi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17052,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051\/revisions\/17052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}