| The Puzzle of Ancient Man: Advanced Technology in Past Civilizations? |  | Author: Donald E. Chittick
Publisher: Creation Compass
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 Excellent Introduction! May 16, 2007
Jon Saboe (Baltimore, MD USA)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
"The Puzzle of Ancient Man:" Provides and excellent introduction and overview of OOPARTS (Out Of Place Artifacts), and also shows the accuracy of Biblical timelines.
Dr. Chittick spends some time with the often overlooked subject of artifacts and monuments in South and Meso-America.
Some time is also devoted to Design Inference and its importance to archeology and also to evolutionary thinking as a whole.
A valuable reference June 23, 2008
John L. Owens (Coastal Georgia, USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
As author of a preflood novel, I highly recommend Chittick's book as an interesting read, but also as an excellent reference with detailed index. The Puzzle of Ancient Man is a unique work - Biblical, well-documented, and fact-filled with fascinating photos of artifacts that support a high technology for early man. Of particular value to me was an ancient artifact cast in pure gold, found in a grave in South America, that closely resembled a modern aircraft with its wings, apparent elevators, and tail section with rudder. This helped to support the inclusion of gliders in the historic adventure, The Ninth Generation: Conquering the Giants.
Did ancient man have godlike knowledge? July 29, 2009
Reggie Baker
We have been taught since childhood that man came on this planet as a brute with very litle knowledge of how our universe and world works. What this author has done is raise serious doubts as to the validity of this kind of thinking. He points out solid eveidences that early man knew more about science and how things work than we have been led to believe. Where this material will lead you is up to you. From early navigational computers to advanced contruction techniques he raises some interesting possibilities.
Lessons From the Past. August 26, 2005
tvtv3 (Sorento, IL United States)
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
THE PUZZLE OF ANCIENT MAN attempts to illustrate to readers how the ruins of ancient cultures and technology fits into a Biblical world view. The book is full of citations to support its claims and unlike other books I have read on similar subjects, most of the sources were fairly current to the book's original publication. THE PUZZLE OF ANCIENT MAN does a great job of explaining how the technology of past civilizations actually supports a Biblical world view. Those who are already Christians, those who hold a similar world view to a Biblical one, and those who are thinking of converting to Christianity are the ones who will probably profit most by reading this book. Much of the knowledge discussed in THE PUZZLE OF ANCIENT MAN are things I already knew or had heard about before. Despite this foreknowledge and, also, the random tangents the author seemed to go off upon every once in awhile, I enjoyed reading the book.
 Occasional interesting reading, but not solid research July 4, 2006
Victor Augustine (The Great NW - USA)
5 out of 24 found this review helpful
This book is not for those looking for an empirical survey of the "puzzles" of ancient man. It takes the Scriptures as validated fact and then picks and chooses examples that can be bent to support literal biblical interpretations. The majority of the sources cited are not scientific or academic, but rather are popular or creationist. Those scientific sources that are used are usually excerpted in such a limited way so to create 'literary sound-bites' that seemingly support the author's case. I sometimes got the sense that the author had to sift through many articles before finding something he could use to support his case (a citation of an article in Parade Magazine--yes, the one that is stuck between the comics and the classifieds in your Sunday paper--was the first suspicious citation that put me on alert. That came in chapter 1).
All that being said, this book is not void of entertainment value--I could hardly put it down. But I found it more an excercise in critical thinking than anything I would consider worthy of any serious consideration. Too many facts are distorted or left out for the author to convince me to give it a chance as a genuine work of research.
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