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The Adam and Eve Story Homework
The meme around this goes like this: "a well-known scientist" released a book in 1966 that "could impact everyone on Earth," but it was immediately classified by the CIA.
The book in question, "The Adam and Eve Story," by Dr. Chan Thomas, describes a cyclical pole shift that leads to cataclysmic destruction and the end of civilization as we know it. Somehow the Earth’s crust becomes fluid, the surface stops spinning, and the poles fall to the equator and the equator goes to the poles. But the atmosphere and the oceans keep moving because of inertia and so there are 1000 mph winds and tsunamis a mile high that destroy all of civilization in a matter of days. The book says this has happened before. We are just the most recent civilization. It’s supposed to happen every 6500 years or so and we are way overdue.
The conspiracy story claims that the CIA only declassified 57 pages of the original 284-page manuscript, fueling speculation about the hidden truths within the redacted content. They also claim that the released pages were "sanitized," implying a deliberate effort to conceal information from the public.
Conspiracy theories surrounding the author and the CIA are all over the place. Some suggest that "Chan Thomas" was a pseudonym used to protect the author's identity due to the sensitive nature of the book's content. Others propose that the CIA classified the book to suppress knowledge of an impending cataclysm and maintain control over the population.
Part 2: Debunking and Rational Analysis
But it turns out Dr. Chan Thomas was a real person whose full name is Chauncey Powers Thomas.
He was born in Missouri in 1920 and passed away in 1998. He was married and had children and grandchildren. He was an electrical engineer and he did work for McDonald Douglas.
Thomas was reportedly one of four full-time researchers tasked with investigating reports of UFOs with the goal of discovering the underlying science that powered such vehicles.
He even appeared as a UFO expert in a documentary in the 90s and he was on Johnny Carson on April 7th 1965 with Ava Gabor. You can watch those on youtube and I’ll provide links in the show notes.
The claim that the original "The Adam and Eve Story" by Chan Thomas was 284 pages long and that the CIA only released 57 pages is not accurate.
The original book published in 1965 by Emerson House was relatively short, likely closer to 57 pages.
A revised and expanded version was published in 1993 by Bengal Tiger Press, which was 232 pages long.
The CIA declassified and released a 57-page document of "The Adam and Eve Story" in 2013.
The confusion likely stems from the fact that there are multiple versions of the book with different page counts. The 57-page CIA document appears to be the declassified version of the original 1965 publication, not a partial release of a longer work.
While the conspiracies portray Thomas as a credible scientist, his work is widely regarded as pseudoscience. He borrows heavily from other catastrophists without providing concrete evidence for his claims. His theories lack scientific rigor and are not supported by mainstream geology or archaeology. Like he doesn’t give any reason why the Earth’s crust would suddenly start sloshing around.
The other thing is the book was never banned in the sense people think. It was originally published in 1965 and was available to the public.
Only the 57-page manuscript in CIA possession was classified and later declassified. There were other copies in circulation. Chan Thomas also published follow-ups in 1971 and 1993 and neither was classified.
The classification of the document was likely due to Thomas's involvement in classified projects at the time, rather than an attempt to hide some global catastrophe. The declassified material includes mundane items like a shopping list and a magazine article, suggesting it was classified as part of a routine security procedure. But the truth is we really don't know the CIA's interest in the book and its subsequent classification.
The book's subject matter is juicy and the fact that there’s this confusing classification and declassification adds to the intrigue, but the reality is it’s mostly a goofy end-times story by an eccentric engineer with no solid evidence backing it up and all the conspiracy theories surrounding it are bogus nonsense.
Part 3: Something else to worry about: Geomagnetic reversals
Geomagnetic reversals are scientifically observed. These have happened before but are not predictable or periodic events. The last major reversal occurred approximately 780,000 years ago, leading some scientists to believe we may be overdue for another. However, the indicators preceding such flips are not well understood.
Impact on navigation: The shifting magnetic north pole affects navigation systems. To maintain accuracy, the World Magnetic Model (WMM) is updated every five years to account for these changes.
Reversal process: If a full reversal were to occur, it would likely take between 1,000 to 10,000 years to complete. During this time, the Earth's magnetic field would significantly weaken before growing again with opposite polarity.
Potential consequences: A significant weakening or temporary disappearance of the magnetic field during a reversal could increase Earth's exposure to cosmic rays and potentially affect satellite communications and power grids/
SOURCES & LINKS
The Adam And Eve Story The History Of Cataclysms Uncensored by Chan Thomas
https://amzn.to/3WbeRYJ
Earth's Shifting Crust by Charles H. Hapgood
https://amzn.to/3GR2pJc
The Path of the Pole by Charles Hapgood
https://amzn.to/3GloaiI
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/2012_(film
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/2012_(film)
Chan Thomas on Carson:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5955592/
Chan Thomas UFO documentary:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244275/
Links:
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