Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

2 - The War Of The Gods
wild animals and because it was easier to feed themselves, why did not
the other apes, too, stand on their hind legs, for the same reason?
"Basically all hominid apes were and are vegetarian ...
"So were man's ancestors; they only became meat eaters during the
process of becoming man ... Meat eating is supposed to have been a
sign of increased intelligence and therefore an advance, because man
could nourish himself 'better' and 'more easily' on meat. For this
compliment thank the wolves and wild cats, who had been carnivores
many millions of years before.
"Why did meat eating suddenly become an 'easier' form of
nourishment for man's ancestors? Since when has it been easier to kill
a gazelle or a bison than to pluck fruit from a tree?
"During the last million years many dry and rainy periods alternated ...
all the great apes were able to withdraw to the remaining woods to
continue leading their usual way of life. Why did all the great apes do
this, except those from which man is supposed to have originated
later?"
There is really nothing in the theory of evolution to explain the mighty
leap by which homo sapiens set himself apart from his family of
hominids. All we hear is that the brain suddenly became efficient,
acquired technical know-how, was capable of observing the heavens
and establishing communication in social communities. In terms of the
history or evolution this leap from animalistic being to homo sapiens
took place overnight. A miracle? Miracles just don't happen.
The assertion that the intelligence of our earliest ancestors had already
begun a million years ago and developed nice and slowly once they
lived in communities does not hold water. All mammals live in groups,
flocks and herds; they hunt and defend themselves communally. Have
they become intelligent on this account? Even if a being resembling