Pani asked:

I want to know, if reincarnation is true, why we only remember this life? And how we can explain
population growth?

Also I have another question, How can we explain the "gods" in the beginning of life? When I
compare my knowledge with Von Daniken's theory, I really mix up.

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You've already answered your first question by yourself, so there is nothing more to say. As for
Daniken, my best advice is to try and forget what he wrote as fast as you can. Don't blame yourself
for being mixed up; chances are the guy was even more mixed up than you are. As I, for example,
discovered to my chagrin by checking his sources, he also had the problem that he quotes many that
just don't exist. Same rule goes for reincarnation, I'm afraid. The idea is a hangover from very
primitive days, when people had no science whatever and tried as best they could to explain to
themselves what happens to their precious little self when the body dies. If you're interested in
ancient Gods, read about them in books on mythology. There is a huge choice of them in every
library in the world.

Jürgen Lawrenz

Actually you're doing very well. These are just the kinds of questions you shouldbe asking, that is,
questions about the basis and implications of assertions that people make to you. There are no
satisfactory answers to these questions, because 1) there is nothing at all supporting reincarnation;
there are just a lot of people who believe in it. There used to be a lot of people who believed the earth
was flat, also. If wishes were fishes... For one thing, if reincarnation is true, then Christianity, Islam,
and Judaism, to name only three major religions, are false. Why don't people see this? Um...

2) Von Daniken either very cynically cashed in on hordes of gullible people to sell his books, or he
was simply a crackpot. There is not a shred of historical data supporting his, uh, "theories".

Keep on with your skepticism! Readabout these theories! Think critically about them! Now, the next
step is to do the same for the beliefs you were brought up with... painful as that might be.

Steven Ravett Brown

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