Theos-Talk Archives (June 1998 Message tt00125)

Darren wrote:
>
> When one travels at the speed of light or close to it, time is dilated. So
> lets say that Jehovah comes down in his fiery wheel (UFO) speaks to some
> Israelites, leaves them a magnificent chlorophyll generator/weapon (ark),
> then takes off back to sirius or wherever. After 20 years of space flight
> he returns to earth but alas 800 years have passed. To the people on earth
> he seems 800 odd years old but is in fact only 20 years older.

	I find "ancient astronauts" theories to be inherently racist. What they
tend to come down to is, "The Asians, Africans, and Native Americans
could not have come up with the technology and cultures that they did on
their own; only the white Europeans have that capability."

	Bart Lidofsky