Intervention theory
From RationalWiki
This topic may or may not be bullshit, and is either nonsensical or idiotic.
May damage the mind and lead to drinking of the Kool-Aid.
Intervention Theory is a pseudoscience idea advocated by known crank Lloyd Pye. Pye claims that a superior alien race called the Anunnaki from the planet Nibiru incrementally terraformed and populated Earth for their own reasons, later returning to Earth and, through a process of genetic manipulation, producing humans. These ideas supposedly come from translating and interpreting ancient Sumerian texts (Anunnaky and Nibiru are names from Sumerian religious myths). Pye argues that these alien beings are responsible for the megalithic structures around the world, the growth and advancement of Sumer, the domestication of plants and animals, and supposedly strange flaws in human DNA.
The idea is not limited to Pye and has its origins from Erich Von Daniken who first suggested intervention from beyond earth as a means of explaining the world's megalithic structures which he claimed could not be built by humans even today, much less by the the supposedly primitive people of ancient civilizations. Zecharia Sitchin is probably the most famous advocate of intervention theory when and the first to bring in the insane reinterpretations of the writings of the ancient Sumerians.
Pye focuses on evidence he claims to find in DNA, and combines it with the ideas of Von Daniken and Sitchin. Supposedly DNA provides proof that these aliens created humans and domesticated plants and animals to make life for themselves as easy as possible on outpost from their home planet.
The idea is usually held up as a third prong alternative to the scientific theory of evolution and the pseudoscience theories of creationism.
