Michael Cremo
Michael A. Cremo | |
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| Born | July 15, 1948 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Author, editor |
| Website | www.MCremo.com |
Michael A. Cremo (born July 15, 1948, Schenectady, New York), is an American Hindu creationist whose work argues that modern humans have lived on the earth for billions of years.[1] Cremo's ideas have been rejected by the scientific community.[2][3][4][5]
Early life and education
Cremo's father, Salvatore, was a military intelligence officer. Michael Cremo went to high school in Germany and spent much of his summers travelling throughout Europe. He attended George Washington University from 1966 to 1968, then served in the United States Navy.[6]
Religious views
Cremo is a member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and the Bhaktivedanta Institute. He has written several books and articles about Hindu spirituality under the name Drutakarma Dasa. He has also been a contributing editor to the magazine Back to Godhead and a bhakti yoga teacher. Cremo told Contemporary Authors that he decided to devote his life to Krishna in the early 1970s, after receiving a copy of the Bhagavad Gita at a Grateful Dead concert.[6]
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Forbidden Archeology
In 1993 Cremo co-wrote Forbidden Archeology with Richard Thompson. The book claims that humans have lived on the earth for millions, or billions, of years, and that the scientific establishment has suppressed the fossil evidence for extreme human antiquity.[6] Cremo continues this theme in Forbidden Archeology's Impact (1998) and Human Devolution (2003). The Indian magazine Frontline called Cremo and Thompson "the intellectual force driving Vedic creationism".[7]
Cremo's work has attracted attention from Hindu creationists and paranormalists, and he has been a frequent guest on the late-night talk radio show Coast to Coast AM, which specialises in the paranormal and conspiracy theories.[8] His books provided much of the content for the widely criticized 1996 NBC special The Mysterious Origins of Man.
Forbidden Archeology has been criticized for failing to test simpler hypotheses before proceeding to propose more complex ones (a violation of Occam's razor) and for relying heavily on outdated evidence (often from the 19th and early 20th century).[9] Tom Morrow of the National Center for Science Education noted that Cremo's "specimens no longer exist" and dubbed the work pseudoscience.[1]
References
- ^ a b Morrow, Tom, "Forbidden Archaeology's Impact by Michael A Cremo", RNCSE, 19 (3): pp 14-17
{{citation}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ Hidden History, Hidden Agenda, Bradley T. Lepper
- ^ Creationism: The Hindu View, Colin Groves
- ^ Forbidden Archaeology : Antievolutionism Outside the Christian Arena, Wade Tarzia
- ^ "This remarkable compendium of pseudoscience [Forbidden Archeology] is premised on the assumption that modern science is a prisoner of Western cultural and religious biases..." Scientific Values and Civic Virtues, Noretta Koertge, Oxford University Press
- ^ a b c "Michael (A.) Cremo". Contemporary Authors Online. September 23, 2002. Retrieved on August 17, 2008.
- ^ Nada, Merra. "Vedic creationism in America". Frontline. January 14-27, 2006. Retrieved on August 18, 2008.
- ^ Michael Cremo. Coast to Coast AM. Retrieved on August 17, 2008.
- ^ Tarzia, Wade (1994), "Forbidden Archaeology : Antievolutionism Outside the Christian Arena", Creation/Evolution (34): 13–25
External links
- Official website
- Michael Cremo. "Hidden History of the Human Race" (pdf). Retrieved 2008-08-20. Abridged version of Forbidden Archeology
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