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Title: Uriel's Machine - NEW in paperback: Uncovering the Secrets of Stonehenge, Noah's Flood and the Dawn of Civilization by Christopher Knight, Robert Lomas ISBN: 1-931412-74-X Publisher: Fair Winds Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (15 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Good fiction? Yes.
Comment: Forty years ago Hawkins, an astronomer discovered the function of Stonehenge by using an IBM computer. That function was more incredible than all the fanciful notions dreamed up to explain the monument between the time it was abandoned during the early Bronze Age (around 1500 BC) and the early modern age of computers. The Knight/Lomas attempt to throw a new brand of mysticism into one of the most amazing discoveries about the intellects of men we've usually considered primitive does nothing to discredit the achievement. This book has as much validity as the claims almost a thousand years ago that the structure was placed there by Merlin through the use of magic.
The men who've studied and dug beneath this shocking accomplishment of pre-history during the past centuries have uncovered the tools used to build it. Stone tools. Deer antlers. There's mystery here, but the mystery involves human determination, persistence and motive.
As for the Knights Templar claims by the authors: The history of the Templars is well documented. They are worthy of awe. The Templars need no modern-day fanciful fictions to add to their place in history. No Foucault's Pendulums need obscure a strange group of men who dedicated themselves to what they believed until all who could be captured were excommunicated and executed.
I'd suggest readers interested in these subjects read Hawkins (about Stonehenge). If there's interest in the Templars read the actual histories. You won't get anything approaching magic, but you won't need it. You'll come away as intrigued and mystified as you would have if you'd read (and believed) this book. But the foundation for your awe will be justified.
The main problem with this book is that it's written by two men who haven't dug under Stonehenge and haven't observed the function for themselves. An electrical engineer and an advertising man. Go to the experts and don't bother with this book. However, if you happen to be blessed with the ability to become excited over fabrication and fantasy, buy it. This book is for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Solid work that takes us forward
Comment: This is a first class book that considers all the available evidence rather than picking and choosing. Some self-opiniated critics say otherwise but you can ingore that because they usually have their facts wrong as they nitpick at minor points. It all checks out and I'm really impressed - for example I find that Encyclopaedia Britannica confirms 10,000 year sea shells in North Wales.
Well worth 5 stars!
Rating: 1
Summary: Another book distorting/ignoring the evidence
Comment: Don't trust anything they write about archaeology or geology until you check it for yourself in a reputable source. They get dates wrong, facts wrong, show that they don't actually know the material, etc. For instance, they ascribe the Scottish tsunami to a comet (one or more of 7) that they claim caused
>worldwide tsunami in 7640 BC. This in fact was caused by the second Storegga submarine landslide which occurred on the continental slope off the coast of western Norway, extending out into the Norwegian Basin and was almost certainly caused by an earthquake.
They write nonsense like "The earliest known buildings in the world are the megalithic structures of Europe. They are 1,000 years older than the cities of Sumer." But later they mention Catalhoyuk and state that it flourished between 7000 and 6000 BC. And of course there is Jericho, with walls and towers dating back to between 8000 and 7000 B.C.
Page 60:
"In North Wales, beds of sand and gravel with geologically recent sea shells can be found on mountains such as Moel Tryfan which is over 400 metres above sea level, showing that North Wales was briefly covered by sea water at a point in the recent past."
Obvious nonsense, but some people might believe it. They get it from a 1971 Creationist book, which in turn quotes (although we aren't provided with a quote) Geikie, A, Textbook of Geology', with no date. Sir Archibald Geikie's book cited here might be "A Class-Book of Geology", 3rd edition, MacMillan and Co.:
London, 1892 (p.179-180).
et's look at something a bit more recent:
The Need for Earth Heritage Conservation by the UK's Joint Nature Conservation Committee wrote about this:
"Moel Tryfan, Gwynedd. This is a historically important site, 400 metres above sea level, that consists of sand and gravel containing fossils of sea-shells. It was cited as evidence for the biblical flood by the Diluvialists. Subsequently it was interpreted as a glacial deposit carried from the sea bed by an Irish Sea ice sheet during the last ice age, about 23,000 years ago. This has a bearing on the dimensions of the last Irish Sea ice sheet, the extent to which it may have depressed the Earth's crust, and the degree of crustal 'rebound' after glaciation. It is a subject of ongoing research."
There are many more errors in the book. For instance, there were no 'grooved ware people', the Ainu are clearly not Caucasian (genetic evidence shows they are related to their neighbours), agriculture is older than Lomas and Knight state, their comments on Stonehenge seem to include elements they've made up, etc. A classic example of bad science.
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Title: Second Messiah: Templars, the Turin Shroud and the Great Secret of Freemasonry by Christopher Knight, Robert Lomas ISBN: 1931412766 Publisher: Fair Winds Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Hiram Key: Pharoahs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus by Christopher Knight, Robert Lomas ISBN: 1931412758 Publisher: Fair Winds Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Book of Hiram: Freemasonry, Venus and the Secret Key to the Life of Jesus by Christopher Knight, Robert Lomas ISBN: 0007174683 Publisher: Element Books Ltd. Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ by Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince ISBN: 0684848910 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 12 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Messianic Legacy by Michael Baigent ISBN: 0440203198 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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