Nexus Magazine Review

Human civilisation could not have developed without the intervention of “Alien Visitors” in improving our genetics, says John Cowie in “Silbury Dawning”. There’s evidence for an alien seeding – either by genetic engineering or interbreeding – occurring around 13,000 years ago in the post-Ice Age period and he believes that this truth will be borne out with careful DNA analysis of ancient mummified bodies.

Cowie, a computer industry veteran who lives near Silbury Hill and other megalithic sites of Wiltshire, takes the perspective that the genetic changes coded into our make-up resulted in vast improvements in our capacity for intelligence and imagination. He even goes so far as to suggest that today’s genetic engineers and computer scientists are merely activating a genetic memory software installed by these visitors long ago.

But how to define Cowie’s stance? He’s not a Darwinist, yet evolution is part of his model. Nor is he a Creationist or Intelligent Design adherent, but his alien intervention hypothesis presupposes a long, uneventful evolutionary process that was suddenly seeded with advanced genetics. He’s less concerned with how life originated than with how human intelligence expanded so quickly and created great civilisations.

The alien seeding hypothesis is gaining wider credence in the public mind. Is this because it’s part of our genetic destiny?


Ruth Parnell
Mapleton
Australia