Posted 24 September 2010 - 04:38 AM I have found the most fascinating book. This attempts to trace the history of the whole world from 687 BC back to 9,500 BC using resources in hundreds of languages. Obviously it's quite a long book. This was the period in which science and theology were the same subject, because the gods could be plainly seen hanging in the sky all the time. It draws from scientific suppositions currently held by dozens of scientists (which is to say they are not accepted by many scientists) to analyze ancient religious and tribal stories from all over the world. The conclusions are quite surprising. One example of a surprise: People have hunted very hard for evidence of a great worldwide flood. They found two. Neither of them is Noah's flood. No evidence has ever been found to support the story of Noah's flood even though the story was recorded in about 500 different languages all over the world. The possible explanation offered in this book is something you would never have imagined if the ancients had not preserved the story for you. In some ways, this could be considered the story of science and religion trying to learn how to cope as the gods abandoned men. Recovering the Lost World, A Saturnian Cosmology -- Jno Cook