Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

2 - The War Of The Gods
the discussion. But I have come to the conclusion that the kind of
speculative ideas for which I am attacked can be found by anyone who
is prepared to do a little diligent reading in existing scientific literature.
Comforting for me, discomforting for my critics.
For example, and this is important for my theory of war in the
universe, I meet with scepticism if I try to use reproductions of cave
drawings to prove that the recognizable accessories of space travel
(spacesuits, antennae, supply systems, etc.) point to visits by
intelligences from other stars. Nonsense, I am told. If equipment like
that used today could be confirmed in such early* times, the alien
intelligences must have developed quite differently from ourselves. I
never hear precise arguments but-what must not be cannot be. Amid
the vast sea of speculations there are some logical conclusions that
give quite solid support for my theory that alien intelligences must
have been the same as homo sapiens, or very like him.
Professor Roland Puccetti, a contributor to such well-known
periodicals as The Philosophical Quarterly and Analysis, writes in his
book Extraterrestrial Intelligences from the Philosophical and
Religious Point of View that he made his study "because after all the
amateurish conclusions I felt it was high time to investigate the latest
scientific! findings in this field quite impartially, from the point of
view of a philosophical and religious scholar." Puccetti shares his
opinion that intelligent! beings throughout the universe must be more
or less like homo sapiens with other eminent natural scientists. As
early as 1964, the well-known biologist Dr. Robert Bieri published the
same conviction in "Humanoids on Other Planets," a contribution to
the American Scientist. After 15 years of research into enzymes, Dr.
Joseph Kraut, a bio-chemist at California University, came to the same
conclusion.
But how can it be "proved" that intelligent extraterrestrial life
developed similarly to man? The "proof can only be a logical sequence