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Zecharia Sitchin (born around 1920) is a best-selling author promoting the ancient astronaut theory of mankind's origins. Sitchin was born in Russia and raised in Palestine. It was here that he acquired knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archaeology of the Near East.
[edit] IntroductionSitchin attended and graduated from the University of London, majoring in economic history. He was a journalist and editor in Israel for many years, but he now lives and writes in New York. His various books have been widely translated, converted to Braille for the blind, and featured on radio and television. Sitchin claims that his research coincides with many biblical texts and that the biblical texts come originally from the Sumerian writings of their history. [edit] TheoriesSitchin has recently put forth his own date for the next passage of Nibiru in the year 2085, but the date most talked about is 2012 which marks the end of the Maya calendar. Nibiru, the planet associated with Marduk in Babylonian cosmology, is a central element of Sitchin's theory. He claims it was a tenth planet, twelfth to those who included the Sun and Moon, which followed a long, elliptical orbit, reaching the inner solar system every 3600 years. According to his theories of Sumerian cosmology, Nibiru was the twelfth member in the solar system family of planets. In this theory, Nibiru's catastrophic collision with Tiamat, a planet that was between Mars and Jupiter, formed the planet Earth and the asteroid belt and comets. This planet was the home of a technologically advanced human-like alien race Anunnaki of Sumerian myth, who, Sitchin claims, survived and later came to Earth. According to Sitchin, they subsequently genetically engineered our species, originally as slave animals to work in their gold mines, by crossing their genes with those of Homo erectus. Sitchin says some sources speak about the same planet, possibly being a brown dwarf star and still in a highly elliptic orbit around the Sun, with a perihelion passage some 3,600 years ago and assumed orbital period of about 3,600 to 3,760 years. However, scientists argue that a planet with such an orbit would eventually either develop a circular orbit or fly off into space. Scientists overwhelmingly consider Sitchin's claims to be pseudoscience. Sitchin attributes these figures to astronomers of the Maya civilization. However, a brown dwarf with a period of 3,760 years would be clearly evident through infrared and gravitational observations. In a recently published book, titled "2012: Appointment With Marduk," Turkish writer/researcher Burak Eldem presents a new theory, suggesting a 3,661 years orbital period for the planet and claiming a "return date" in the year 2012 AD. According to Eldem's theory, 3,661 is one-seventh of 25,627, which is the total time span of "5 World Ages" according to Mayan Long Count Calendar system. The last orbital passage of Marduk, he adds, was in 1649 BC and caused great catastrophes on earth, including the Thera eruption. [edit] ImpactSitchin's claims are strongly disputed by archeologists and astronomers. Nevertheless, they have proven popular reading if only as science fiction, and they are a novel way of handling the enduring legacy of Mesopotamian mythology and astrology. His series of books has led directly to other works of popular fiction, such as the successful "Stargate" movies and TV films that have adapted his fanciful theory that the Mesopotamian gods were in fact strange, resource hungry mortals. If not credible to mainstream scholars, his theory is at least an intriguing interpretation of the related phenomena of religious belief in the divine. [edit] Academic oppositionAcademic opposition to Sitchin's theories focuses on various fundamental questions that are not answered in his research. Firstly, if planet Nibiru's orbit takes 3,600 years, then its aphelion would be further away than Pluto. At such a distance from the Sun, temperatures are so low that water would exist as ice, life as we know it would be impossible. If a form of life can exist in such conditions, then it would not be water-based and could conceivably perish at Earth's much warmer temperatures. Secondly, if alien visitors to Earth created humans, then evidence for this would have been found by now within our DNA. Since DNA sequencing is now cheap and easy, the conspiracy theory idea that our true DNA sequences have been suppressed can be discounted, the idea being that since almost anyone can sequence our genes, if there was any extraterrestrial DNA to be found it would have been by now. Additionally, humans and chimpanzees share 96% of their DNA and the remaining 4% does not appear to depart tremendously from the genes found in other species. Thus, present-day genetics fails to produce evidence that supports Sitchin's theories and more readily supports the idea that humans evolved through a series of DNA mutations from a precursor ape-like species. [edit] Response to Academic oppositionIf these beings exist, they're more technologically advanced then us and probably could control they're enviroment temp by means of a heater. They also probably live inside the "planet" where it would be alot warmer. The water can be melted for use. As for no evidence in our genes, scientists say there's a large amount of "junk" DNA that apparently does nothing. Maybe if we could evolve closer to them, we could use that "junk" DNA. Same idea with the fact we only use 10% of our brain. So what we learned today is humans lie and decieve and sometimes believe we got all the answers. The wise will think for themselves. They will take in all info they can on a subject, take time to let it settle in, and make their own decision what to believe. Don't allow others to change your beliefs, but also, don't put all your eggs in one basket. [edit] Works
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