Some Trust in Chariots!!

Chariots of the Gods? by the Swiss Erich von Däniken is a book of popular archaeology, sensational and rhetorical in style, which has had an extraordinarily wide following since its publication in 1967. The contributors to this present book believe that von Däniken's work is careless, ill-informed, gratuitously offensive to honest scholars, and ultimately likely to be unhealthy in its social effects. The writers are varied in their assumptions about the nature of things: among them there are Christians of several kinds, a member of the Jewish community, and at least one agnostic. But they are closely united in believing that truth is hard-won and precious, and that Chariots of the Gods? requires a counter-attack.