Colony--Earth

By Richard E. Mooney

Book Overview

Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First U.S. edition. About fine in dj. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Unknown Binding
• ISBN: B007EPYA2S
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Stein and Day
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Joc Cousteau confirms

Some years after reading this book I was watching Joc Cousteau on TV and he was investigating the deep blue holes in the Caribbean ( not related to the book) which turned out to be limestone caves which had lost their tops. He dove down and found stalactites and stalagmites at about 240 feet and carbon dated at 10,000 + years. Vellly Interesting!!!

Dated But Pertinent

This book, like Velikovsky, gives enormous food for thought to the thoughtless evolutionist or fundamentalist. Among other things, the author challenges the theory of primate ancestry, the Ice Age, and Von Daniken's alien thesis (although he admits that this might be a better theory than some). He gives credence to the legend of the Flood, as well as the Garden of Eden, although he interprets the Scriptures (and other old texts like the Mahabharata) in terms of what we would call science fiction. Although a bit simplistic and also shallow in his approach to religion, he is less so than most other scientists, and demonstrates rather convincingly that pre-Flood civilizations may have been high order and even "magically" advanced by our standards, which accords with Scriptural accounts rendering it another fall of man from a Golden Age. Covered in this book are the New World civilizations (including Chimu surgery and Tiahuanaco architecture), the Aryan legends of old India, basic astrophysics, archaeological anomalies, and a chronology for the Flood. If nothing else, Mooney convinced me that the missing link hypothesis is full of more holes than I thought, and that perhaps the fallen angel/nephilim/UFO scare among Christians these days may need to be moderated a bit in the direction of informed scepticism. After all, if the Bible teaches us nothing else, let us not worship angels or anything else (including ourselves) but God alone. That lesson is as valid for an atheist or agnostic as a Christian, at least if Western civilization means anything.

INSIGHTFUL

IT MADE SENCE TO ME,AND CLEARED UP A FEW OF MY QUESTIONS.

Colony: Earth

I'm not going to sit here and say that I buy this book hook line and sinker, but you have to admit, Mooney's ideas are no crazier than some of the other things we accept as fact. Never once does Mr. Mooney say "These are the facts." He merely states that if we believe "A" to be true, and "B" to be true, could it not be that "C" just may be true? He does not advise his readers what to think, rather, he just wants us consider some other possibilities. I have no intention of joining the "Richard E. Mooneys", But he certainly made me stop and rethink a few things. I wonder what ever happened to this interesting feller.

What they didn't mention in school

This book provides considerable information most of us were not previously exposed to. The conclusions are rational in light of the author's interpretations and assumptions. Altogether a good read that makes one think, whether a beliver in religion or agnostic. The best part of reading this book is that new views of the past become almost inevitable.