The Da Vinci Code — is it the usual fiction?
The world’s best-selling novel in the last three years has been The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. About 40 million copies have been sold in 44 languages, and it is now a major movie. To the casual reader the story is just a rollicking ‘whodunnit’, wherein the murdered curator of the Louvre Museum in Paris leaves a set of cryptic clues from the works of Leonardo Da Vinci, including the ‘Mona Lisa’.
Aliens in the bedroom
Not just cranks and hoaxers
What are UFOs? Many people are dismissive or have already made up their minds on the subject without looking deeper. You may have heard all sorts of different explanations, but Gary’s book provides eye-opening research that forces the reader to rethink his assumptions—a bit like evolution. ‘UFOlogy’ is not just fun and games, or hoaxes and pranks. Science fiction is a megabucks business. For example, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has become an international obsession. Their scientific search of the skies costs millions of dollars. At the same time, millions of impressionable young people are flocking to theatres and dream of life on other planets.
There are more reported sightings of UF Os now than ever before. The ‘epidemic’ sometimes reaches the front page, with tragedies like the Heaven’s Gate suicide-murders (all fully explained in Gary’s book). Yet the press—and many Christians—typically dismiss the subject out of hand. ‘The idea that “aliens are with us”? has become increasingly mainstream’, Gary tells audiences. ‘Just ask a few teenagers. Several of them are likely to tell you that they believe aliens “are a fact”? and they may have been humankind’s original creators. This should rightly shock us. Surveys estimate that more than 80% of Western peoples now believe that ET is out there somewhere. Finding ET is actually one of the stated goals of NASA ’s taxpayerfunded “Origins”? program. To them, it’s a search for the meaning and origins of life.’
