<HTML>From Donnelly to Hancock, diffusionist writers - for want of a better word - have drawn on genuine science - again for want of a better word - to persuade their readers that there really is hard evidence for the idea they are proposing - ie the lost civilisation in one form or another.
I would argue that this is an illusionist trick - but often very effective, and dangerous. The fact that anyone is still discussing the West/Schoch Sphinx material shows that a dollop of 'science' can go a long way.
Hancock has always done this - for example, misquoting Professor Joseph Kirschvink in Heaven's Mirror.
From the clues offered by his site, Underworld will continue this strategy: see the recent post on the Jomon culture from his researcher. Here we have talk of oceanic 'pulses', the Sunda Shelf and so on: all very 'scientific'.
But SO WHAT?
The irony is that the Hancockists exploit any shift in what they call 'orthodox theory' - conveniently ignoring the way real science continuously tests ideas in the furnace of new data.
The key is that in no way does the material on Jomon culture in the Americas support Hancock's basic proposal about a LOST civilisation. Although by not stating very clearly WHAT he proposes he can get away with almost anything.
I suspect he will pull some sophisticated new science into Underworld - and many will fall for it...
Don't let them get ahead of the game!</HTML>