The authors of Civilization One return, bringing new evidence about the Moon that will shake up our world. Christopher Knight and Alan Butler realized that the ancient system of geometry they presented in their earlier, breakthrough study works as perfectly for the Moon as it does the Earth. They found a consistent sequence of integer numbers that they can apply to every major aspect of the Moon; no such pattern emerges for any other planet or moon in the solar system. In addition, Knight and Butler discovered that the Moon possesses few or no heavy metals and has no core—something that should not be possible. Their persuasive conclusion: if higher life only developed on Earth because the Moon is exactly what it is and where it is, it becomes unreasonable to cling to the idea that the Moon is a natural object—an idea with profound implications.
Sometimes interesting, sometimes boring, sometimes stupid On the INTERESTING side, the claimed mathematical relationships surrounding the Earth, Moon, and Sun are sometimes amazing. Unfortunately, the authors try to make the number of relationships seem like there's more of them than there are by essentially saying the same thing in various ways. As an example, the Sun and Moon have the same "apparent" size viewed from Earth, which sets up a variety of ratios that the author's try to pass off as individually unique. Other features revealed about the Moon (inconsistent gravity, ringing like a bell from impacts, etc) were intriguing.
On the BORING side, many parts of the book seemed like filler to make it bigger.
On the STUPID side, IMO you can't have future civilizations going back in time to build the Moon so humanity will arise so the future civilization will exist to go back in time to build the Moon.......
One (unrelated?) speculation that I found interesting is that (large, supposedly unused) sections our DNA might hold coded messages from our "creators".
Still waiting to greet my future self. The book is full of factual errors and typos. Most disturbingly is how the author always contradicts himself by lending credence to one theory and a few paragraphs later, restates the same theory in a different context and rebukes it. The author lost all credibility when he stated Darwin's TOE, specifically evolution through random mutation and natural selection, is pretty much a rock solid and proven scientific fact. Trouble is the bulk of Darwin's TOE has been disproved in the scientific community and the only reason that they still hold on to it is because a new and more plausible/understandable theory has yet to be written. Biological mutations appear to be directed in the direction of the needed mutation in order to survive. Maybe the entire known(and unknown) universe operates on this principle. Maybe this is the next step to understanding the concept of "God" as being THEE universe along with every single, miniscule consciousness and forms of order that reside in it.
Much better books by much more thorough authors: Michael Cremo's "Human Devolution" and Hoagland's "Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA"
Failure This is a bad book. The authors' main conclusion is that the people of today need to form a coalition to send people back in time to build the moon, because it was built by people from the future.
This book is full of errors in logic and has many problems and deficiencies. It reads like a love poem to the theory of Neo-Darwinist evolution and takes this bogus theory as fact. Half of the book was devoted to rehashing this badly conceived theory. It also assumes that ancient civilization rose about 3000 BC across the world, not even considering the massive evidence to the contrary. The work of John Anthony West, Robert Bauval, Graham Hancock, and other studies of high civilazations predating this period is not even considered in this book
The numerical anaysis is extrememly lacking as well. Anyone who has studied ancient monuments, geodetics, or sacred geometry will find that there is not a satisfactory numerical analysis in the book. The authors attempt to do everything in the metric system combined with the megalithic yard. They appear to be completely unaware of the work of Carl Munck, John Neal, and others, who have demonstated many relationships based on the English foot and mile. For example, the author's don't even mention that the moon is 2,160 miles in diamteter, which is just the beginning of rich numerical pattern that comes from the moon.
The book is full of overkill with regard to why current textbook explanations of the moon's origin are insufficient.
Richard Hoagland's book, Dark Mission: the Secret History of NASA is a much more informative book.
Moon With A View This book provides mathematical evidence that is solid. The author uses this information to take you on a journey that is far outside the box of everyday thinking. Many people might be uncomfortable with the profound implications of his findings. Many people laugh, scoff and dismiss these things because to them, these topics are uncomfortable and distract them from the toils of everyday life.
However, the author presents his case very well, and one must consider the possibilities. The important aspect about this wonderful book is that it gets you thinking. It stretches the borders of your imagination. Did you ever imagine that the moon might indeed be hollow, or synthetically created?
The author lays out the numbers, and sure enough, there are startling "coincidences" present in the Earth/Moon System that are nowhere else in the solar system. A great author once wrote, "Coincidence is a glimpse into a pattern otherwise hidden." The author provides us many glimpses into the nature of Earth's essential traveling companion.
Further, if you take the knowledge provided in this book, combine it with researching the facts about a possibly faked moon landing, and some of Richard C. Hoagland's findings involving monuments on Mars, artifacts on our moon, and Saturn's moon Iapetus, a broader picture is suggested. This book is a great starting point for research into evidence of a forgotten, ancient past. The world as we know it may perhaps be far stranger than we ever imagined. The greatest monument ever created might just be staring down upon us from the nearby sky...
Don't Be Put Off By the Title Don't be put off by the title. This book is highly informative and easy to read. It is very similar to the Science Channel's "If We Did Not Have the Moon."
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