David Icke, “The Biggest Secret” (1999)
The obsession with aliens is prevalent in the conspiracy community. It would be a waste to deal with all those theories in one post. Today, we'd like to talk to you about our neighbouring planet, the god of war, Mars and more specifically, the theories posited by David Icke.
Mars is so close, that on the right night, it's visible to the naked eye. For you science fact fans, budding astronomers and, possibly, Brian May – here are the stats: Mars is 228 million miles from Earth. It would take 214 days to travel that distance. The surface of Mars is littered with volcanic craters and is home to the largest volcanic crater in our solar system, Olympus Mons.
There has been a handful of probes sent to the red planet over the course of that last 40 years. The probe that really fuelled the conspiracy fire was the first, Viking I.
Viking I was launched in 1976. It was NASA's first succesful landing on Mars and for the first time, the scientific world got a glimpse of the alien surface. It was this picture:
that made a lot of people scratch their heads. Was it possible that an ancient civilisation had inhabited this terminally desolate planet?
According to David Icke's revelatory book from 1999, “The Biggest Secret,” it's indeed the case. Humans descended from a Martian race, The Aryans. Yup, the very same Aryan race so fantasised by everyone's favourite facist, Adolf Hitler. According to Icke, the Ayran's were a super-advanced civilisation who found themselves leaving Mars after, “a celestial catastrophe.” UFO investigator, Brian Desborough claims to have seen unpublished astrophysics data that suggests Mars once occupied Earth’s orbit. The Aryans settled on this planet and, in Earth's first example of philanthropy, helped the lesser developed mind of our ancestors to flourish. This advanced civilisation were able to construct such wonders as Nazca, Baalbek, and the Great Pyramid at Giza. Icke believes that this is the only explanation of how these wonders came to exist- he does not believe it was humanly possible for these forms of architecture to have been created without extraterrestrial help.
The Ayran's, as we'll discover, were not alone.
NASA launched further probes and continued to capture increasingly detailed images of the mysterious pyramid structure on Mars. Images from the 2001 Mars Global Surveyor finally revealed the structure to be a geographical feature know as a mesa: an elevated piece of land, with steep sides.
The mystery explained. Or was it?
In Icke's world history, the Aryan's were followed to Earth by a fourth dimensional, blood drinking race of lizards called the Annuki. A war was waged between the two races. Ultimately destroying these ancient civilisations. We'll come back to the lizards in a later post.
Icke's View Deconstructed
Icke's theories on the Aryan/Martian race are heavily influenced by Brian Desborough. Icke heavily quotes Desborough throughout the book. Icke's introduction to Desborough reads, "A friend of mine in California, Brian Desborough, is a researcher and scientist I have a lot of respect for. He has been involved in. Aerospace research and has been employed in this and other scientific research by many companies."
We googled Brian Desborough extensively and could find nothing to truly back up this claims. He has his own presence on the net and can be found at www.briansbettersorld.com
We delved into his (self written) biography and discovered that he's also a (self-proclaimed) expert at deprogramming mind control victims. He uses his skills to mine information from victims and puts it to good use - aiding his research into the New World Order. He has written quite a lot about trauma based mind control and has a lot of anecdotal evidence to claim the existence of the Annuki.
Icke litters his book with scientific facts and stats before seamlessly evolving the text into into Martian theory. Icke makes his theories ring true up by connecting scientific evidence by association, when in fact, the Martian theory is not directly related or endorsed by these scientific facts.
There is an overwhelming lack of evidence to prove this Martin theory. Although Icke is careful not to state anything that can be directly disproved. At the same time, he does not provide any solid evidence to cement his ideas. This is why, for us, it’s not about rejecting David Icke’s Martian theories because they’re crazy, it’s about rejecting them because there is no evidence to support them. It is not for the critic to disprove a theory, it is for the theorist to show the workings of his theory. The burden of proof shouldn't shift to the sceptic to disprove it.
Let Bertrand Russell tell you about a celestial teapot to round this inaugural post off:
“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.”
The truth is out there,
Seth & Lola.x
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