The Mathisen Corollary: Connecting a Global Flood with the Mystery of Mankind's Ancient Past Paperback – December 16, 2011

Wow. I've always thought I had a basic understanding of the stars (i passed 8th grade science), but this really puts it into perspective and makes it so much easier to understand why some stars appear to be in the same place every night and others rotate " as if they were in a belt running outside the orbit of earth."The stars are one of the very few things we experience just as our ancestors have for many thousands of years. Reading this book and getting a better understanding of how we fit into the solar system and how the sky changes is a very grounding experience. I encourage all to read this to not only better appreciate our existence but to open our eyes to the possibilities of our past.

I was pretty skeptical when I bought this book, and I must admit I still am. As I read it, it was so engrossing, I found myself talking out loud and arguing with the text. (Sometimes I won the argument, sometimes I didn't!).Nonetheless, the writing is elegant and the conclusions will stretch your mind. Mathisen brings together an enormous amount of information and much of it defies explanation through conventional thinking / science. While that doesn't mean he's right, it's a fun road to travel and will open your mind to previously unconsidered possibilities. For me, the most important takeaway was that we should continue to apply critical thinking skills to the world around us. There are numerous instances of the "truth" in science changing that goes back for centuries.Mathisen is a gifted writer and I eagerly await his next book. Whether I agree with it or not, I know it will be a great read and fun to debate. Until then, his eclectic blog continues to provide interesting brain candy. It's worth checking out.  The Mathisen Corollary blog

Quite interesting book. Maybe the Myths part of it is not always so clear in term of examples, while the theoretical one regarding the shifting of the Earth's crust is much clearer

Reading "Hamlet's Mill" blew my mind, and I bought this book because it claimed to build on those ideas. I don't want to be ungenerous; this book did deal with ancient precession knowledge and star lore in a similar fashion. But from the first chapter, in which Mathisen denounces plate tectonics in favour of hydroplate "theory" (no offence intended, but it doesn't qualify as a theory, so I can't call it that), I knew I was in for a lot of wincing and tongue-biting. I tried to keep an open mind in spite of my healthy reservations; and I did enjoy many insights; but the conclusion, in which Mathisen suddenly and inexplicably started outright arguing against the theory of evolution, soured me on the entire thing. Darwin-inspired ideas of gradual change were lamented throughout the novel, for their role in overshadowing cataclysmic change, but I didn't realise until the end that this was also hatred for the actual theory of evolution.There were some good ideas here, but the author also displayed very hostile rejection of very well-documented scientific phenomena, and I was NOT happy with that. Mathisen continually asks the reader to ignore conventional ideas in favour of the data, but then he ignores scientific data in favour of religious doctrine.

This book is quite detailed and technical discussing something called 'precession" and needs to be read carefully. Having said that, it is extremely interesting and makes a very complicated concept understandable, if one takes the time and has the interest. The author explains something that I always wondered about, i.e. why we are in the 'Age of Aquarius' (or soon to be), which would seem that the earth is actually going backwards through the zodiac. Note: This is not a book on astrology, but astronomy, and the author makes the case that certain celestial phenomenon was understood much earlier in the ancient past than science currently allows. It is very well-researched and explained.

Tough for the average reader and most wouldn't read it but it is full of thoughtful and intelligent theory. This is better than most theory because it all adds up and is valuable knowledge. Still reading and I talk about this one.

He understands that geology, biology etc all tie together. I dropped a star because he brought up carbon dating which Isn't accurate, also he spat put a few dates past the age of the earth which is 6,000 to 7,000 years old. But nevertheless this is a great book and will make you want to research other topics.