Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

2 - The War Of The Gods
man has produced primitive tools, that in itself does not make him a
homo sapiens. Professor Leakey of the National Research Center for
Prehistory and Paleontology, Nairobi, refers to finds near Fort Ternan,
which showed that Kenyapithe-cus Wickeri produced edged tools and
that homo habilis used simple tools two million years ago. Leakey also
tells us that Jane van Lavich-Goodall investigated chimpanzees in their
natural surroundings and established that these distant cousins of man
regularly make and use a variety of simple tools. Who is willing to
admit these chimpanzees, which meet the criteria for membership of
homo sapiens, into the circle of intelligent human beings?
Beings resembling man that made and used tools have always existed.
Beings resembling man who worshipped and feared the gods, painted
cave walls with frescoes, sang songs, had a feeling of shame,
cultivated friendship and buried their fellow-men- those kinds of'
beings have not existed for so long.
I doubt if they ever would have existed without artificial mutation by
extra-terrestrial visitors. So I hazard the claim that the vanquished in a
cosmic battle first set the process of becoming man in motion with
their knowledge of the genetic code by means of an artificial mutation.
On June 5, 1972, the Associated Press, Washington, distributed a news
item on the 129-page report of the Committee for Astronomical
Research of the American Academy of Science. In the view of these
scholars the probability of intelligent extra-terrestrial civilizations
existing in the universe has increased considerably during the last
seven years. The Academy recommends that attempts by astronomers
to discover such distant worlds with intelligent inhabitants should be
supported by large government subsidies. Admittedly existing
telescopes could already receive radio signals from extraterrestrial
civilizations, but new instruments must be developed capable of
picking up signals from inhabited heavenly bodies outside our solar
system as well. The committee's report says literally: